Who would believe that the scarcity of fish poses a threat to some three million wrecks dotting the bottom of the world’s seas? However, it is industrial trawl fishing, often practiced at more than 1,000 meters deep and now partially limited to 800 meters in Europe, which constitutes one of the […]
ChotuKool is a tiny refrigerator using the cooling system of computers. Developed in India, it allows the poorest to be able to keep their food. This is called “frugal innovation”. The latter has undoubtedly always existed, but their achievements on a larger scale (in particular in India) and their increasingly global dissemination, make them […]
Empathy is in fashion, advocated by everyone and everywhere as the ferment of social ties, it is what would ensure mutual aid and “good living together”. Having become a suitcase concept, often synonymous with morality, empathy is presented as a necessary and sufficient condition for altruism and social harmony. But is empathy necessarily […]
After SARS in 2003 and MERS in 2012, a new coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCoV, is of concern to international health authorities. A cousin of SARS and probably a descendant of a bat virus, it is said to have emerged at the beginning of last December in Wuhan, China. As of January 30, 2020, 7,891 infections have been confirmed in twenty countries, […]
In recent years we are witnessing the confluence of great technological advances that due to the speed with which they are taking place, the breadth of sectors of the economy and facets of our lives that they are affecting and the profound disruptive impact they are having, It has led […]
