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The Intolerable Power of Truth

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Truth works in the same way as power, because it imposes its own diktats, even more ruthless than those of the most powerful dictators. Hence, scientific laws, indisputable because they are based on repeated experimental observations, such as the earth’s…

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Liberty, Equality, Feminism

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La présence de quelques femmes à des postes de pouvoir importants, et l’amélioration sensible, partout dans le monde, de l’accès des femmes à l’éducation et aux soins, ne doit pas cacher l’essentiel: partout, les femmes sont de moins en moins bien traitées par la société, c’est à dire par les hommes. Pour le plus grand malheur des uns et des autres.

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Well, then, dance now!

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Dance says a lot about the lives of people. It is sheer utopia, by its very nature, since it aims to give the appearance that man can escape the law of gravity, at least for a short while. And it…

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“Wherever there will be nothing, read…”

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« Wherever there will be nothing, read that I love you »… Has anyone ever written a more beautiful declaration of love, referring to the final sentence of Diderot’s letter to Sophie Volland, June 10, 1759, at the early stages…

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Should You Wake Up a Sleepwalker?

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According to old beliefs waking a sleepwalker may kill them; at least make them insane. In fact, science tells us that the opposite is true: sleepwalking (somnambulism) is the result of the interruption of muscle paralysis that ought to accompany…

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