Health against diseases and plagues
Reflection on health and medicine Seneca, in the first century B.C., recalled the importance of health in his Letters to Lucilius, as a value superior to any wealth or glory. …
Tag: fear
Survivors at the end of the world
December 21st was the 183rd end of the world in history. This is the number of end of the world events that Pierre Baron counted for Historia. Called “End of …
Darkness, the enemy of the Enlightenment according to Foucault
Michel Foucault in an interview dating back to 1977 declares : A fear haunted the second half of the eighteenth century: it is the dark space, the screen of darkness …
Charlie Hebdo attack: summary and hour by hour details (January 7 to 11, 2015)
From January 7 to 11, 2015, the attack against the authors of cartoons published for several years in the newspaper Charlie Hebdo took an international dimension. While the trial to …
Secret and digital: Quantum computing and encryption
A Moore’s law (popularized as such but not really related to Moore’s observations) says that every 18 months a breakthrough occurs in technologies. For example, that a characteristic is twice …