Patrick Blanchenay

Avant que l’histoire ne commence, il y a une première phrase. Une ligne, parfois anodine, parfois fulgurante, qui suffit à créer un univers. De Tolstoï à Camus, en passant par Kafka, Duras ou Yourcenar, tour d’horizon des incipits qui ont marqué la littérature
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Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

Fewer Grants & Funds = Fewer Innovations & Discoveries
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
Federal Funding for Scientific R&D and Education is by far the greatest investment in America's Future!
A Fantastic 🧪 READ: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

if only the public had some kind of radar to detect lies. but what would we call it......

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

Arctic sea-ice extent on November 30th was about 400,000 square kilometers below the previous record low for the date, set in 2016.

En RDC, les autorités annoncent officiellement la fin de la dernière épidémie d’Ebola L’épidémie s’était déclarée à la fin d’août dans le centre du pays. Au moins 34 morts ont été enregistrées, parmi 53 cas confirmés.

En RDC, les autorités annoncent officiellement la fin de la dernière épidémie d’Ebola

PrEP, sexe à risque, coupes budgétaires... Mythes et réalités sur le VIH À l'occasion de la Journée mondiale de lutte contre le Sida, l'Onusida décrit un monde "en recul" face au VIH. Les jeunes sont de plus en plus touchés, le dépistage recule et plusieurs pays coupent dans les financements. Dans ce contexte, de nombreux mythes persistent et brouillent la prévention.

PrEP, sexe à risque, coupes budgétaires... Mythes et réalités sur le VIH

business cards one reads no address, no phone, no business, no money. Retired. the other reads you would rather die than face truth.

Business cards found in the pockets of author William Lindsay Gresham, who committed suicide in a hotel room, 1962.

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You can run from counterfactuals but you cannot hide.

You can tell how fundamental this was as an obvious war crime from how you have to use a mix of archaic English terminology, diplomatic terms of art codified in French, and legal maxims expressed in Latin, to even describe how illegal it is. That's how old the relevant concepts are.

This year explaining regression to the mean took forever but I’m sure next year will be better.

The dream of any NGO.

As an aside, postgraduate studies promote (perhaps extreme) skepticism, an attitude sometimes lacking in some reporting.

This is probably true of many fields. It would be nice for news outlets to hire people trained in the subject matter. Maybe it'd be more effective to have subject experts trained in journalism, rather than journalists trying to learn on the job (or worse: from their interviewers).

The desolate crumbling ruins of the once magnificent ancient city of Marib, today.

A 🧵:
1/x?
The ancient hydraulic marvel of the Marib Dam:
“It is between three mountains, and the flood waters all flow to the one location, and because of that the water only discharges in one direction; and the ancients blocked that place with hard rocks and lead.
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Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., Director of the Division of AIDS National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (.gov) https://www.niaid.nih.gov › about › carl-w-dieffenbach-... Nov 15, 2018 — Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., serves as Director of the Division of AIDS (DAIDS). Dr. Dieffenbach oversees a global HIV/AIDS research portfolio of more than $1 ...

Hearing news that Carl Dieffenbach, the Director of the Division of AIDS at #NIH (NIAID), has been removed from his position because he was "not aligned with HHS/OMB."

Russell Vought continues to remove great scientists as part of the Project 2025 mission to politicize and destroy NIH.

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X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

The European Parliament's far right scored a major victory last week when the center-right EPP worked with them to press ahead with plans to cut green rules.

Now, the far right has its eyes set on migrants, cars and red tape.

🔗  politi.co/485yw3V

"Créer un peu de bonheur, ça n'a pas de prix", Nathalie Rabusseau et l'escalade comme moteur d'inclusion Passionnée d'escalade depuis trois ans, Nathalie Rabusseau a créé Climbing Bitches, une communauté basée sur l'inclusion. Pour aller plus loin, elle a fondé la déclinaison associative en 2024. Avec Ha...

"Créer un peu de bonheur, ça n'a pas de prix", Nathalie Rabusseau et l'escalade comme moteur d'inclusion.
Rencontre avec celle qui organise des sorties pour les publics fragilisés.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

He's not challenging "orthodoxy", he's ignoring data. Stop dancing around his disinformation campaign and call it what it is -- an all out attack on Science and America's place in the scientific world.

Mask of Tutankhamun - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of... In August 2014, the beard accidentally became detached from the mask when it was taken out of its display case for cleaning. The museum workers responsible used quick-drying epoxy in an attempt to fix it, leaving the beard off-cente

France has added Musk’s Grok to an ongoing cybercrime investigation after it produced French-language posts echoing Holocaust denial about Auschwitz.

Find someone that looks at you the way that universities look at AI

“adversarial poetry”??? holy shit

who wants to hire me and @pa.ulst.ar to be white hat poet ronin, I’m so serious right now

Woah!
📌 Need to read the full paper

Police bargaining rights explain 14% of civilian deaths. (What about serious injury but not quite death?)

#econsky

Difficult without specifying the probability distribution.

TIL online based surveys were ever considered appropriate for research.

A stock of U.S.-bought birth control, meant for sub-Saharan Africa, goes bad in Belgium Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives have been stored in Belgium since the U.S. froze foreign aid. A local official says some products were stored improperly and are largely unusable.

A stock of U.S.-bought birth control, meant for sub-Saharan Africa, goes bad in Belgium

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