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Ça date de Décembre, mais si je dois parler de bonnes nouvelles dans mon domaine, il s'agirait du progrès constant que l'on voit en thérapie génique. Si un certain nombre de thérapies de ce genre ont déjà été approuvées, Casgevy est la première qui utilise Cas9 pour faire la modification génétique.

La thérapie génique est en progrès constant depuis les années 2000, et permet de soigner des maladies qui étaient jusque là absolument hors d'atteinte de la médecine, qui pouvait au mieux traiter des symptômes. Une étape marquante pour moi, puisque j'ai eu le plaisir de

Jancovici est un ingénieur, et fier de l’être. C’est même un ingénieur en physique. Il aime donc parler en ordre de grandeur, et aligner trois calculs excels pour avoir une image globale d’une situation. Ici, on est majoritairement d’accord pour dire qu’il fait un travail salutaire. Dans l’ensemble.

Mais y a un truc qui me gène à mort dans ces discours. Une proposition qui personnellement me semble lunaire : le PIB est une fonction de l’énergie disponible. Retenez vos réponses prématurées, oui il y a des interprétations raisonnables de cette thèse. Ce n’est pas la sienne. J’y viens.

À l’appui de cette thèse, il utilise souvent deux graphiques. [Celui-là](https://theshiftproject.org/w

I recently decided, after having spent a fair bit of time listening to the course of Arthur Holmes "The History of Philosophy" to basically read all the major books of major philosophers in chronological order. I'd like to forego intermediate and get directly to the primary material.

I wanna see who responded to whom, what fed the thoughts of the major figures, the school of thoughts and so on. This is a long endeavor (depending on how many I select), but I have time, and then I'll move on to Muslim, eastern and the rest.

Now I came across this timeline which is very handy in to decide which philosophers to p

For some reason i fell down the Hololive rabbit hole for a while. It gets old, but there's this catchy (for me at least) metal song that Matsuri uses at the beginning of her streams that none of the Shazam, trackID and consort have been able to identify.

I'd be grateful for any clue !

Just look at this monkey and tell me that’s not awesome. Yes, it’s only a monkey hitting rocks against each other. But the amazing thing is: it’s a monkey hitting rocks against each other! What I’m trying to do with the rest of this post is to give a bit of context to help you see why this is awesome if you don’t see why it is, so keep reading if you’re interested.

Ethoarcheology is a relatively recent development, so recent that google insists on wanting to correct it to ethnoarcheology. As many of you may know, it is no longer taboo to talk about animal culture. We know that some be

The full text can be found here. This resolution is the subject of on-going diplomatic squabbles, that moderators tell me should not be the subject of discussion here. Nonetheless, I feel like asking historians view on the involvement of legislative or executive powers in the historical discussion, as I'm sure there are examples and literature that don't break the 20-year rule.

And there are two questions really. There's the actual historicity of the fact voted on, and the fact that they are voting on a historical fact at all. Both seem wrong to me, but maybe it is justified if the statement is actually correct.

The text of the resolution is here. This is related to [a post on r/worldnews](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ehmf71/polish_pm_claims_russias_rewriting_of_history_is/) about the ongoing diplomatic and propaganda exchange between Russia and the EU (and, most particularly Poland it would seem).

So, I've just seen ants swarming. I've managed to snatch a couple acceptable pictures with my phone. My best guess is that those little yellow ants are Lasius flavus, but I'm not expert.

But what amazes me is the coordination of it all. The swarming began at around 5PM (this is in France by the way) and I've wandered around. I can't confirmed it started at the same time everywhere, but on a range of at least a few kilometers, all these yellow ants where swarming, and there were queens (and/or males ?) everywhere in the air. Now by 6:30-ish, it's all over.

How can those colonies coordinate to swarm so close together in timing, on such long ranges is what I won