Revue de presse ANGLAIS Semaine du 13 au 19 Février 2012

Revue de presse ANGLAIS
Semaine du 13 au 19 Février 2012
Time – February 13, 2012
New Scientist – February 18, 2012
Technology
This Is Your Life (According to Your New Timeline) (By
Allie Townsend) : What Facebook's new profile page tells
us about the battle for control of the Internet.
Psychology
Why we have moral rules but don't follow them (By
Michael Marshall) : A twist on the classic "trolley"
psychology experiment suggests that our minds have two
parallel moral systems, and they don't always agree.
Features – Nation
The Conservative Identity Crisis (By David Von Drehle) :
America's political conservatives have long been a
blended family with different strains, beliefs and
priorities. Can they unite this year to defeat a President
they all agree must go?
Technology
Islands on land could make towns tsunami-proof (By
Robert Gilhooly) : Elevated land-based islands could
protect people living in low-lying areas from tsunamis –
and archipelagos of them could form entire towns.
The Economist
18th/24th, 2012
Technology – Online legacies
Dealing with death in a digital world (By Niall Firth) : The
laws about who controls your online property when you
die are too vague.
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February
Cover Story Harnessing the quantum power of empty space (By David
Harris) : The elusive Casimir effect suggests we could use
vacuum energy to move objects and make stuff – but can
something really come from nothing?
United States
Reforming gang members - Where homies can heal : A
Jesuit priest is running an impressive anti-crime
programme.
Medicine - Features
The mystery of the missing brain cells (By Moheb
Costandi) : The idea that we can grow new neurons has
brought tantalising hope of repairing the brain after
injury and disease. But could it be based on wishful
thinking?
Newsweek – February 13, 2012
Nuclear power - The 30-year itch : America’s nuclear
industry struggles to get off the floor.
Science and technology
Cosmology - The dark side of the universe : Scientists are
trying to understand why the universe is running away
from them.
Obituary
Whitney Houston : Whitney Elizabeth Houston, pop singer, News
Bringing Up Bebe: Why French Parents Rule (by Rebecca
died on February 11th, aged 48.
Dana) : What makes French people such great parents?
Science
Whip-Its: Why Can Killing Brain Cells Feel Good? - Tripping
through time (by Gary Marcus) : Why has evolution let
drugs be fun?
The Guardian
February 2012
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Inside Guardian Weekly
Inside the 17 February edition (by Natalie Bennett) :
Behind the scenes in Tibet, Syria, Greece and Belarus.
Science
The rise of the « spider-goats » (by Adam Rutherford) :
Adam Rutherford looks at incredible advances in
synthetic biology and genetic engineering.
Financial Times Weekend Edition –
February 18/19, 2012
World news
Alliance fights EU carbon tax on airlines (by Pilita Clark) :
An alliance of countries opposed to a carbon tax on
airlines is threatening to tear up trade deals with the
European Union and impose new taxes on EU carriers in a
sign that the world's first carbon trade war is edging
closer.
Dossier « Ces Européens qui partent »
L'Australie, seconde patrie des Irlandais (by Maris Beck) :
Ils sont des milliers à s'installer chaque année aux
antipodes de leur pays. (The Age, Melbourne)
Etats-Unis
Une élection pas vraiment « postraciale » (by Glenn
Thrush and Donovan Slack) : trois ans après son accession
à la Maison Blanche et en pleine campagne pour sa
réélection, Barack Obama fait toujours l'objet d'attaques
aux relents racistes. (Politico, Arlington)
China's workers shun traditional factories for lure of
technology (by Rahul Jacob) : the cachet of the world of Courrier in English
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Life
Life after Wall Street (by William D. Cohan) : Some (by Lucy Kellaway in Financial Times, Londres).
40,000 high-level bankers and traders lost their jobs in
the financial crisis. William D. Cohan asks what these Opinion – Go East, Young Man (by Jonathan Levine, in The
former Masters of the Universe did next – but meets an New York Times, New York).
impenetrable wall of silence.
Entretien
La plus grande bibliothèque du monde se fera sans Google
(propos recueillis par Richard Beck) : le directeur des
bibliothèques de Harvard, Robert Darnton, est bien
décidé à ne pas laisser une entreprise privée monopoliser
l'accès au savoir de l'humanité. Son projet de
bibliothèque numérique ouverte à tous devrait être prêt
pour 2013. Explications. (The Boston Globe, Boston)