Revue de presse ANGLAIS Semaine du 07 au 13 octobre 2013
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Revue de presse ANGLAIS Semaine du 07 au 13 octobre 2013
Revue de presse ANGLAIS Semaine du 07 au 13 octobre 2013 Un article vous intéresse mais vous n'accédez pas à son contenu intégral en ligne ? Cherchez dans Europresse ou demandez de l'aide aux documentalistes ! Time – October 7, 2013 New Scientist – October 12, 2013 Briefing - Health Beyond the Breathalyzer (By Alice Park) : Researchers are mining our exhalations to diagnose disease. News focus – US paralysis The maths that saw the US shutdown coming (by Debora MacKenzie) : Can a new mathematical model predict the endgame of empires? Peter Turchin says his work shows why the US is in crisis, and what will happen next. SPECIAL REPORT : Higher Education What Colleges Will Teach in 2025 (by Jon Meacham) : America must resolve the conflict between knowledge and know-how. MIT’s President: Better, More Affordable Colleges Start Online (By L. Rafael Reif, President of MIT) : How digital learning can become a part of every campus. Online learning will make college cheaper. It will also make it better. The Economist – October 12/18, 2013 Technology The rise of consequences in video games (by Douglas Heaven) : Grand Theft Auto V lets players kill and be killed with no comeback, but a new breed of games uses open-ended social interactions to explore moral choices. Features The great greening: The coming of our new lush Earth (by Olive Hefferman) : From the Arctic to the deserts, plants are thriving in our changing climate. Sounds like a new Eden – but there will be winners and losers. The mind minders: Meet our brain's maintenance workers (by Moheb Costandi) : A roving band of cells take care of business in the brain, giving rise to our fertile and flexible minds. Meet the microglia. Financial Times Weekend Edition october 12- 13, 2013 United States Higher education - Learned Luddites : Many professors are hostile to online education. International Bike-sharing - Taking off the stabilisers : Sharing two wheels is becoming ever more popular. Books – inequality The future of inequality (By John McDermott) Inequality has long followed scientific progress. But in an ultramechanised world, will a new ‘cognitive elite’ leave everyone else behind? The journalist asks if the gap between rich and poor is set to become a gulf. Science Beyond the God particle (By Clive Cookson) This year's Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics iluustrates how computing is changing every fied of research. But the need for human inspiration remains. The Guardian October, 2013 Weekly – 11/17 Scientific American – October 2013 Inside Guardian Weekly Inside the 11 October edition (by Graham Snowdon) : Despair at Europe's gates; pressure grows over Qatar workers; dark internet thwarts NSA. International News NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users (by James Ball, Bruce Schneier and Glenn Greenwald) : Funded by government, Tor software eludes attempts to attack it. Science Chimps are making monkeys out of us (by Justin McCurry) : Extraordinary research from Japan shows that chimpanzees are way ahead of humans in complex memory tests. Courrier International octobre 2013 – 10-16 Health Researchers Aim to Level the Playing Field for Patients Awaiting New Livers (By Dina Fine Maron) : The map governing who gets an organ transplant favors some regions over others. Evolution Why Humans Live So Long (by Heather Pringle) : Modern genomes and ancient mummies are yielding clues to why the life span of Homo sapiens far exceeds that of other primates. Dossier « Crossroads of invention » How to Exploit the Power of Diverse Minds (By The Editors) : A good idea can be powerful. Many of them, in a network of diverse minds, can be more powerful still. How to Unlock Life-Changing Technologies Now Waiting in the Labs (By David J. Kappos) : Miniature robots, personalized drugs and other potentially life-changing technologies lie waiting in the laboratory, lacking support. Here's how to fix the problem. How 142 Nations Capitalize on Science : How well do mature and emerging nations capitalize on science? ÉTATS-UNIS Sans le sou, une diplomatie fragilisée (By Edward Luce, Financial Times) : Le shutdown et les crises politiques à répétition écornent un peu plus l’image des Etats-Unis dans le monde. Source : Washington’s rolling seizures short-circuit US soft power Europe - Crise IRLANDE - Dans l’attente de la reprise pour tous (By Jamie Smyth, Financial Times) Seules les grandes villes bénéficient de la reprise économique. Le cœur rural du pays croule toujours sous le chômage et l’émigration bat des records. Source : Rural Ireland feels the pinch as Dublin bounces back to life Science et Innovation Sur la piste de l'atome vert (By Matthew L Wald, The New York Times) : Une start-up pilotée par Bill Gates planche sur un réacteur révolutionnaire alimenté par des déchets nucléaires. Source : Atomic Goal: 800 Years of Power From Waste Information Technology How Big Data Can Transform Society for the Better (by Alex Pentland) : The digital traces we leave behind each day reveal more about us than we know. This could become a privacy nightmare—or it could be the foundation of a healthier, more prosperous world. Robotics How to Build a Robot Octopus (by Katherine Harmon Courage) : Smart, strong and flexible, the octopus is an enticing model for an entirely new kind of many-armed, multitalented robot.