Tag: Science
Those who want to “decolonize” a science deemed too “Western”
“Indigenous knowledge can help advance scientific knowledge in some ways, but it is not science.” Published July 31, 2021 in the New Zealand weekly Listen, a column entitled “In defense…
“Beware of your brain”, a small manual of self-defense against cognitive biases
How to avoid errors of reasoning? This subject, studied at least since ancient Greece, has experienced great progress since the 1960s and 1970s and the development of research in psychology…
The practices that you must especially avoid when you want to lose weight healthily
Every Monday, we find the nutrition chronicle of Dr. Binetou Cheikh Seck, dietician-nutritionist at the Cabinet dietetic nutridéal in Dakar, Senegal. Today, she tells us about the habits not to…
Satellite Swot: how it will revolutionize our knowledge of water on Earth
What are the stocks of fresh water on Earth? How can we optimize maritime transport and fishing, better develop the coasts and better understand the influence of the oceans and…
Sleep: what science says – Le dossier de L’Express
Where did our restful nights go? According to the Coviprev barometer published by Public Health France, 71% of French people complain of sleeping poorly, ten points more than in 2020.…
How to overcome insomnia? The only effective method (and validated by science)
A badly heated room, the walls covered with cupboards overflowing with medical files. Here is Simon, a young computer scientist with disturbed sleep since the Covid. Anita and Yolande, two…
Pedagogical Innovation Fund: 13 “good ideas” for teachers and establishments
In an address to rectors delivered on August 25, 2022, President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of an educational innovation fund. Endowed with 500 million euros, its aim is to…
Nuclear fusion: is the new American breakthrough a game-changer?
Major scientific breakthroughs sometimes hide a mountain of difficulties to come. So much so that it is not always easy to assess its scope. As such, the latest results from…
Coffee and sleep: two sworn enemies, really?
It is sometimes consumed excessively to compensate for the yawns that accumulate, but is coffee dangerous for sleep? The chemical mechanism is well known: when we are awake, our brain…
The benefits of the siesta, between myths and reality
It can be a temporary abandonment, a padded parenthesis, or a discreet snooze in the middle of the day. Whether wanted or necessary, the siesta is increasingly seen as a…