News and Views
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Tomorrow is Women’s Rights Day. To mark the occasion, I’d like to share with you my daily gratitude for technology and what I would call women’s right to tools. We are often relegated to gendered jobs and gendered tasks because of unfounded stereotypes, of course, but also because of differences in physical strength. So it’s…
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Following last week’s floods, I’d like to say THANK YOU to the engineers for the hydraulic structures along the Vilaine. Rennes is partly protected from the flooding of the Vilaine by the Haute-Vilaine dam and the Cantache dam, as well as by the banks of the river. Like many people from Rennes, I was able…
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How can we finance all the pressing needs of our societies? In these times of permanent budget deficits, the question is posed with acuteness, and there are arguments between those in favour of reducing expenditure and those in favour of increasing revenue. In reality, the prism of the State budget is too narrow for such…
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And now the American election has taken place. And the world is in an uproar. But in the end, aren’t the Americans trying to stay in the center ? For the past 35 years, they’ve alternated between Republicans and Democrats. Wouldn’t that be a way of going straight ? down the middle ? I’ll leave…
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The ocean is warming up, so what? Marine animals are free. They can move. They can swim wherever temperatures suit them. Maybe that’s what the fish are telling themselves as they watch us: the atmosphere is vast, land animals are free. They can move. They can live wherever temperatures suit them. Except it’s not that…
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What’s the link between the solar system, the brain, microbiota and a plasma globe? It’s a question I asked myself when creating my first publishing commission! And I chose … a space shuttle to tie it all together: on their shuttle, two little characters explore the exhibits at the Espace des Sciences in Champs Libres,…
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It’s beautiful, it’s tall, it looks solid, it looks like steel. But the tower is made of puddled iron. A material that breaks easily when subjected to stress perpendicular to its fibers. The package should read “Caution fragile democracy, should be carried by several people, not for the faint-hearted”. In recent weeks, the early and,…
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I had the chance to visit the Ouest-France newspaper’s printing plant and editorial office. In front of this beautiful industrial facility, we talked about technology, but also, and above all, journalism. In the printing plant, the paper unrolls like a ribbon between the presses. It runs so fast that the eye can’t follow it. Suddenly,…
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Do you know Maillols, the architect ? He left his mark on my neighborhood in Rennes. The Bourg-L’Evêque district, just west of the city center. His signature buildings stretch for less than a kilometer. This neighborhood was a suburb of the ancient city of Rennes. A poor, unhealthy suburb. So when the city had to…
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Many of us are wondering what we can do to bring about changes in our society to fight and adapt to the environmental changes underway. Personally, I think there’s something to be said for putting more sensibility into our lives. Who hasn’t felt like a brain for a whole day : plugged into a computer…