Tag: Klein
Climate, biodiversity… Let’s not abandon rationality, let’s rebuild it, by Etienne Klein
Four years ago, Michel Serres left us. Cybernetics, communication, religions, history of science, art, mathematics, bodies, symbols, languages, oceans, mountaineering, Tintin, everything interested the philosopher, but it was the persistence…
‘Klein Rijnenburg’, more nature and no forced buy-out of farmers (yet). This is stated in the coalition agreement
Intended portfolio allocation GreenLeft – Spacial development – Energy transition – Environment – Management – Surveillance and enforcement VVD – Mobility – Economy – Digitization – Licensing D66 – Water…
‘Klein Rijnenburg’, more nature and no forced buy-out of farmers (yet). This is stated in the coalition agreement
Intended portfolio allocation GreenLeft – Spacial development – Energy transition – Environment – Management – Surveillance and enforcement VVD – Mobility – Economy – Digitization – Licensing D66 – Water…
A year later, the morality of “chorizogate”, by Etienne Klein
Today, scientific images circulate urbi et orbi without an explanatory comment always accompanying them. It therefore happens that they are misinterpreted or misunderstood, and it is therefore easy to make…
Blaise Pascal and the “quarrel of the void”, by Etienne Klein
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) will be 400 years old on June 19. Anniversary which will undoubtedly be celebrated as it should be. Everyone knows that this “frightening genius” was a mathematician,…
What is the universe made of? When discoveries increase our ignorance, by Etienne Klein
In one of his chronicles, Alexandre Vialatte wrote: “The mind of man never stops dreaming. But also meditating, calculating, calculating. He wants to know and needs not to understand. In…
Multiverse: is another world possible? By Etienne Klein
Everything Everywhere All at Once by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert scooped up seven statuettes at the 2023 Oscars, including Best Picture. It tells the story – or rather THE…
ChatGPT: what happens to speech when it ceases to be human? By Etienne Klein
In The commentary society (Le Monde & l’Aube), Nicolas Truong explains how we now find ourselves caught up in an incessant flow of words in which we are called upon…
Nuclear fusion: we dream of mastering it, but are we really talking about energy? By Etienne Klein
Energy regularly makes the front page of our media, but do our ways of saying it do it justice? Do they take into account what we know about her? This…
Are digital technologies taking us away from science? By Etienne Klein
Franz Kafka once wrote: “It is consoling that the disharmony of this world seems to be only numerical.” I admit I’m not sure I fully understand the meaning of this…