Actions to stimulate the youth press in Africa
With a steadily growing young population, the children's print media market offers untapped potential. This article presents the current state of the children's press in Africa, and suggests seven ways to strengthen the sector.
The circulation of ideas
The thousand and one ways in which ideas circulate: travel, exchange of objects, road, standardization, revolution, trade, book, internet...
The importance of welcoming students
Greeting students in class has far greater effects than we might have thought. Studies tend to show that a teacher's attitude towards students can literally have repercussions right down to the results of assessments. There's nothing insignificant about this gesture of greeting, and that's why some people are working to improve the first contact with learners.
When researchers encounter or confront other ways of thinking
When they leave their labs, scientists meet people for whom the universe is not made up of equations. Paranormal enthusiasts talk of obscure forces and chains of causality riddled with contradictions. Others, on the contrary, see the results of their research used to demonstrate anything and everything...
The truth about "Eureka" moments
The history of science and technology is littered with "eureka" moments. From Archimedes to Newton, via René Laennec, inventions and theorems that are still relevant today often come from flashes of genius by thinkers and scientists. But how do these moments happen? And, above all, do they happen suddenly, or are they simply the result of brain training that leads to the end of patience and observation?