The famous French anthropologist, world-renowned for his theory of non-places and his analyses of the “overmodern” city, died during the summer.
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Should companies offer tailored timetables and workplaces on the basis of our different bodies, or are universal solutions, such as the four-day week, the way forward?
Disorders such as Alzheimer’s and epilepsy are difficult to diagnose with only occasional doctor visits. A new approach would allow fathering of extensive real-world data directly from patients.
Georgia is a strategic region for the European Union, but if the EU strictly enforces membership requirements, could Tbilisi edge closer to Moscow?
Media accounts on endangered languages abound, but they don’t always explore how to materially help native speakers. Peer-reviewed research shows that such efforts don’t always have positive effects.
When donors can father multiple children, there are risks that need to be considered.
The smallest chromosome in humans, the men-specific Y chromosome, has just been sequenced after considerable hurdles.
UFOs are back in the limelight after claims made by whistleblowers in the USA, but is it possible that aliens have visited Earth?
Long journeys by car, boat, bus, train or plane can turn going away into a miserable ordeal.
Sweeping new research shows many Europeans could accept to live under a non-democratic regime.
The Balearic islands have passed a pioneering law protecting the well-being of present and future generations. Can it be successful?
If proven correct, the Danish scientists’ scenario could mean the end of life in Europe as we know it.
During the summer, our eyes are particularly exposed to the elements: solar radiation, the cold from fans and air conditioners, chlorine or the salt in the water where we bathe…
Although Joaquín Sorolla is best known for his treatment of light in painting, he also cultivated social realism in his works.
Far from the idea of “trickle-down economics”, a map illustrates how the waterworks of the financial system are parching certain sections of the real economy and producing vast inequality.
Following a number of films featuring debauched emperors, it is nowadays commonplace to associate the Greek-Roman antiquity with orgies. But is this historically accurate?
We acquire languages in a intuitive process that involves little effort; we learn them through the conscious assimilation of grammatical rules and usage.
Let’s take a walk around Madrid a hundred years ago and meet the discotheques, pubs and unrestrained dancing of the roaring twenties.
The NATO summit in Vilnius has kicked the prospects of Ukraine’s membership into the long grass. Kyiv, however, has other security tricks up its sleeve.
Summer is here, together with its host of sun-drenched paraphernalia. One marketing scholar takes a look at our relationship to the emblematic cocktail, Aperol spritz.
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Anthropologue, Maîtresse de conférences à l'Université de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Científico titular CSIC, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
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Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, économiste de l’énergie, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption, University of Bath
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Professeure associée et coordinatrice de la chaire « Energy for Society », Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Lecturer in Law, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Liverpool
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Dean for Diversity Inclusion and Sustainability, Professor of Public Economics, Director of Axa Research Lab on Gender Equality, Bocconi University
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Professeur d'histoire ancienne, Université de Lorraine
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Research fellow with the Centre for French Culture, University of Warsaw
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Chercheur postdoctoral sur les incendies de forêts, Inrae
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Archéologue, penseur et chercheur au CNRS, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier
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Géopoliticien, Sciences Po
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Profesor de ingeniería forestal y cambio global, Universitat de Lleida
