Entries by tag: france
- Emmanuel Macron: A New Hope for Europe?
- My colleague @MathildeBouvier on the new landscape.
(tags: france ) - Some Recent Irish History
- John Bruton has not forgotten 1997.
(tags: ireland ) - New consensus in Germany – Brexit should be clean, and Britain should pay for it
- @JeremyCliffe reports.
(tags: germany eu brexit ) - Chasing Cures for Deadly Scourges, and Getting in Our Own Way
- How we fail to eliminate diseases.
(tags: polio health ) - Suicides of benefit claimants reveal DWP flaws
- How the UK gov't kills the poor and disabled.
(tags: ukpolitics disability )
- Hackers Came, but the French Were Prepared
- How to do it.
(tags: france hacking russia )
- 35 Years Of American Death
- Statistics and maps. Grimly fascinating.
(tags: Death ushealth Maps ) - #Kazakhstan education ministry establishes working group to transfer alphabet to Latin
- From қазақша to qazaqşa?
(tags: Language kazakhstan alphabets ) - French Candidates Talk of ‘Frexit,’ but Le Divorce Would Be Chaotic
- Great piece by @StephenFidler1.
(tags: eu france ) - I ATE THREE EGGS EVERY SINGLE MORNING FOR A WEEK - HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED
- Caps lock merited.
(tags: sf )
- You're too busy. You need a 'Shultz hour'.
- Sometimes easier said than done...
(tags: psychology work ) - President Marine Le Pen’s first 100 days
- Gaming out the unthinkable.
(tags: france eu )
- Can Le Pen win through differential turnout?
- @ChrisHanretty think it's unlikely.
(tags: elections france ) - Why Republicans Can’t Find the Big Voter Fraud Conspiracy
- It ain't there!
(tags: uspolitics )
- Marine Le Pen, no longer enemy of the euro
- Rhetoric meets reality.
(tags: france eu ) - Peter Robinson on Martin McGuinness
- The human dimension.
(tags: northernireland ) - A 130-Year-Old Fact About Dinosaurs Might Be Wrong
- You don't know what you don't know!
(tags: dinosaurs fossils ) - Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs
- Really horrifying.
(tags: uspolitics death factories ) - President Trump’s cascade of false claims in Time’s interview on his falsehoods
- Lies about lies.
(tags: uspolitics )
- Are Progressives Being Played By WikiLeaks And Julian Assange?
- Yes, and have been for years.
(tags: wikileaks ) - A Brexit reality check in Stockholm
- What Sweden really thinks.
(tags: brexit eu ukpolitics sweden ) - Let's Move the Oireachtas from Kildare Street
- Very sensible idea.
(tags: ireland ) - Those who think Marlowe co-wrote plays with Shakespeare may Kyd themselves
- A different view.
(tags: Shakespeare ) - The Most Durably Democratic County In The Country Could Go For Trump
- 144 years on...
(tags: Uspolitics ) - Party politics aside, Austin-based Texas Republican releases most hilarious ad of the election cycle
- Surely a spoof?!?!?
(tags: uspolitics ) - Four Word Dystopias
- As written on Twitter.
(tags: sf ) - CETA failure reveals Lisbon Treaty’s structural flaws
- Also failure in Berlin and Paris.
(tags: eu germany france )
- What is Phishing? Take the OpenDNS Phishing Quiz
- I got 14 out of 14 right.
(tags: Internet ) - French toast: Socialists are already looking beyond François Hollande
- *gulp*
(tags: france ) - Wallonia’s weak spot as an ethical trade champion: guns
- The counterattack.
(tags: Belgium eu ) - Insider's guide to Chișinău
- Nice piece!
(tags: moldova )
- 25 myths and facts about Ukraine and Ukrainians
- In case you were wondering.
(tags: ukraine ) - Trump campaign CEO once charged in domestic violence case
- Jeepers.
(tags: Uspolitics ) - You may think the world is falling apart. Steven Pinker is here to tell you it isn't.
- For once, he has a point.
(tags: politics War ) - Burkini ban suspended: French court declares rule forbidding swimwear worn by Muslim women 'clearly illegal'
- Hooray!
(tags: sexandgenderandsexuality france ) - The draft of a possible Cyprus settlement?
- Getting to yes!
(tags: Cyprus )
- Exoplanet discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri
- Wow!!!!
(tags: astronomy ) - I created the burkini to give women freedom, not to take it away
- What it was meant to be about.
(tags: religion sexandgenderandsexuality france ) - 12 ways to make it look like Brexit has happened
- @jonworth is not entirely serious.
(tags: eu ukpolitics )
- Robert McLiam Wilson on Belfast and Paris
- As you would expect.
(tags: writing waronterror northernireland france ) - Thangam Debbonaire: ‘If Jeremy had rung, it would have been a conversation I remembered’
- More detail.
(tags: ukpolitics ) - I’ll take a united Ireland seriously when I hear Irish politicians tell us what they’ll concede.
- Yup.
(tags: ireland northernireland )
- WFC 2016: Programming Thoughts
- Another major screw-up.
(tags: Sf sexandgenderandsexuality ) - Policy or Project? France, Germany, and EU Defense
- A reality check on the mythical EU army. #fb
(tags: eu germany france ) - Putin's 'Human Rights Council' Accidentally Posts Real Crimean Election Results
- Oops.
(tags: ukraine russia ) - 7 Things I Did To Reboot My Life
- Wil Wheaton writes.
(tags: lifehacking ) - Dark Ages royal palace discovered in Cornwall – in area closely linked to the legend of King Arthur
- Wow.
(tags: archaeology )
- Should You Tinder While You Travel?
- Dating apps in London, Berlin, Sweden and Brooklyn.
(tags: travel internet sexandgenderandsexuality ) - All Those New Dinosaurs May Not Be New — Or Dinosaurs
- Insider nomenclature baseball of paleontology.
(tags: fossils ) - Crossing the border
- My Cypriot friend @esraaygin explores the Franco-German frontier.
(tags: cyprus france germany eu ) - Follow the money: Apple vs. the FBI
- @cstross has a theory about the real agenda.
(tags: technology internet economics ) - An Open Letter to Trump Voters from His Top Strategist-Turned-Defector
- Extraordinary testimony by former Trump insider @SCegielskiPR.
(tags: uspolitics ) - 4 Reasons Why You (Yeah, You) Are Qualified To Nominate for the Hugos
- Rock on!
(tags: sf ) - Why we think terrorism is scarier than it really is (and we probably always will)
- Very sensible.
(tags: psychology waronterror )
- Affiches d'un autre Âge
- Posters for and against Swiss women getting the vote.
(tags: switzerland sexandgenderandsexuality elections ) - Toxic Workers
- Great paper by @MichaelHousman and Dylan Minor on the cost of hiring assholes.
(tags: work ) - Don't call this Government pro-European
- A Moldovan speaks out.
(tags: moldova ) - Depiction of Germans in US and British media
- A glorious taxonomy.
(tags: ukpolitics germany ) - Three of the Double Deckers reunite
- From 24 Jan panel in Bristol.
(tags: doubledeckers ) - The Iron Harvest
- A century has passed and the First World War still has the power to kill.
(tags: war france Belgium ) - The Pope's digital guru
- His Holiness online.
(tags: religion )
- Mari Ness - Proposed changes to Hugo Awards
On the proposed changes to the fiction categories.
- Note to WSFS Members: Killing the Best Novelette Hugo is a Terrible Idea
@Scalzi weighs in.
- Napoleon wrote the best memoir
It's a point of view.
- Hugo Blogging: Sagas
Andrew Hickey (@stealthmunchkin) weighs in.
- Islands in the Stream
Whatever happened to the Bee Gees?
- Strange Horizons Reviews: 2015 Hugo Awards Short Fiction Shortlist, reviewed by Martin Lewis
Reviewed by @nine_below (Martin Lewis).
- Better advice for ‘Bothered’
When your adviser keeps looking down your shirt.
- Google on Artificial-Intelligence Panic: Get a Grip
But what about the ethics board?
- G7 moves on climate
How Merkel did it.
- France's Tweeting Ambassador to the US
Nice profile.
- Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo?
Probably not.
- 5 French political maps
(Can't see them on my tablet, alas)
- 7 Reasons America Is Stuck in Never-Ending War
US militarism. Out of the bottle.
- Dealing with a social-media storm: The American way
Public shaming can be effective.
- Terry Pratchett
Charles Stross remembers.
- A Note on Call-Out Culture
On activism and discourse.
- Belgium withdraws 'controversial' Waterloo coin under French pressure, but has a plan B
A €3 or €5 coin, anyone?
- Constitutional Court strikes down absolute headscarf ban
Good.
- Beijing's tensions with Dalai Lama extend to the afterlife
"Chinese government will decide on his reincarnation"!!!
- The Two Faces of Azerbaijan's Mr Aliyev
The New York Times editorial board weighs in.
- The Internationalism of the American Civil War
European political thinkers and the conflict.
- Comment Sarkozy a bousculé le protocole de la photo historique
Where's Nico? (Right there, actually!)
- ‘I have no confession to make, only that I didn’t do it.’
An ancient miscarriage of justice.
- European Commission publishes TTIP legal texts as part of transparency initiative
From the horse's mouth.
- Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris
@jricole has incisive comment.
- US defense industry fails to defend America
The useless, mega-expensive F-35 fighter jet.
- French Ambassador Leaves Bosnia by Bike
Across Europe, diplomatically, on two wheels.
- Football and the Brussels Brontë Story…
Unexpected connections!
- jean-paul sartre on: the problem with other players
Some of this might not be true.
- WWII Films
Did WW2 last longer than the films about it?
- The Myth of the Shrinking EU Press Corps
@garethharding looks at the real data.
- What if the annoyances of conference calls happened in real-life meetings.
Ow ow ow!!!
- A Beautiful Bouquet: the Pamirs
Peter reports.
- Facebook Hilariously Debunks Princeton Study Saying It Will Lose 80% Of Users
Lies, damned lies, and statistics!
- How the U.S. Maps the World's Most Disputed Territories
"The democratisation of cartography has opened up the world of geographical knowledge."
- 10 Fun Facts About the Rock Hyrax
"Like elephants, manatees and dugongs, male hyraxes lack a scrotum."
- Why is coffee in France so bad?
Yes, I've always been puzzled by this.
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Yeah, and…
I’ve been obsessed with “A Boy and His Dog” for as long as I can remember, and I look for new scholarship and articles on the novella (and the film) regularly, just to keep up to date…