The world of rock music celebrates a precious anniversary this year. In 2003, The Strokes released their ground-breaking album, “Room On Fire”. Put on your old-fashioned headphones and let yourself be transported by Julian Casablancas’ soothing timbre for a nostalgic, yet thrilling musical journey. “The room is on fire and she’s fixing her hair”, sings …
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The importance of roaches goes far beyond the domesticated horror they are so known for It may sound pretty digusting, but cockroaches are actually an extremely fine-tuned machinery, at least, biologically speaking. We all are perfectly aware of how hard it is to get rid of them in a case of an infestation: that is …
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Norwegian striker Erling Haaland transferred to Manchester City in 2022 and is already breaking records. Here is everything you need to know about the 22-year-old prodigy. Birth of a champion In March 2022, his former Borussia Dortmund teammate Giovanni Reyna said about him : “He keeps on getting better. It’s hard to say what the …
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Founded on 18 October 1922 in London, the BBC, affectionately known as ‘Auntie’, has marked some of the most important moments in contemporary history. Today, the BBC is the largest broadcaster in terms of area, language selections and listeners. However, as it celebrates its 100th anniversary, the famous BBC is in turmoil. It is suffering …
No, this is not some realistic sci-fi story you scare your kids with before bedtime. Much like the weirdly maginificent experiments done with “robotic” cockroaches (cockroaches with “built-in” solar panels on their backs), this scientific breakthrough could mean a new era for the study of the human brain. Mainly, research work like this could help …
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The Swedish general election held on September 11th resulted in the victory of a coalition including a far-right party, for the first time in the country’s history: the Sweden Democrats. New right-wing government, energy crisis, tensions with Russia… Sweden’s recent mutations shed light on a quintessentially European crisis. Scandinavian nations are well-known for their progressive …
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TW Rape, murder Michel Fourniret, Thierry Paulin, Francis Heaulme… These murderers are not as famous as the American serial killers, yet they have nothing to envy them. These men have made the headlines and tormented many investigators, before finally being put out of action. Today, lets discover the cases that have obsessed France:, between terror …
The crime scene often offers an empirical understanding of a crime : from the weapon to the time and place, but what if a crime can also be solved by studying the killer’s psychology? What place should we give to the mind of the criminal in an investigation? Criminal profiling Robert Ressler, the father of …
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Ranked the most beautiful public park of Europe in 2022, the Luxembourg Garden would probably not be as successful without its olive green signature chairs. Now exported to different places around the world, let’s explore where they came from, and look at how these 400€ chairs became a global phenomenon. The Origins The chairs as …
Fake news is spreading more rapidly and massively than ever on the surface of the world, often feeding on our intellectual passivity and credulity. The acceleration of the phenomenon is largely due to Internet, especially as today nearly 50% of the world’s population uses social networks. And yet this drift of information is not limited …
Every year, during Pride Month, more and more companies try to show their support to the LGBTQ+ community by rebranding their logo to the colours of the rainbow, or by selling items smacked with a big rainbow. This practice is called “rainbow-washing”, but you can also find it under the name “pinkwashing”. The term was …
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“When I’m singing the blues, I’m singing life”, stated American singer Etta James. Singing Life Blues is a music genre born during the late 18th century in the United States. Although its precise history is not well known, it is said to have emerged amidst the enslaved populations in the Southern States between the 1890s …
“I saw (…) people talking without speaking, people hearing without listening (…) and no one dared disturb the sound of silence”. Simon and Garfunkel, “The Sound Of Silence”, 1964. 40 years ago, in January 1982, 16-year-old Marina Nemat was arrested and imprisoned for her views on the Iranian revolution. In 2007, exactly 25 years after …
“The pedestal of the Robert E. Lee monument might hold an amazing secret — a legendary and irreplaceable artifact related to President Abraham Lincoln worth upwards of a quarter-million dollars. Or it could be a fake.”. These are the opening lines of Dale Brumfield’s article for Richmond Magazine, in December 2017, referring to the possible …
In his movie Licorice Pizza (2021), the filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson decided to tackle a demanding task – filming a teenage romance without entertaining the clichés. This is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine, two young people living in California in the early 70s. They meet when Alana is working as an assistant …
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