March Culture and Society

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L’Europe doit amorcer une triple conversion

Source: Le Monde, 19 March

In great Europe’s space of openness and freedom, a change and a dissent are surfacing. A better balance of its political identity with the protection of its citizens, the ability to stage and manage social conflicts as “sources of freedom” beyond “the policy of the rule” is the guarantee of its future.

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Il y a soixante ans à Rome…

by Alain Salles

Source: Le Monde, 21 March

The small Europe of sixty years ago was as uncertain and difficult as today. We inherit an empiristic Europe, an ever new political form, based on a text ambiguous and flexible which made possible agreements and the unification process.

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Disney’s gay moment: a controversial twist on an old tale

Source: The Economist, 21 March

Although it could have done better in its progressist race, creating a positive hero instead of the partner of a perfidious character to represent for the first time a gay, with the “Beauty and the Beast” Disney will play its role in the fight against the hostility and discriminations of LGBT people in the world.

A driving force

by Chris Richards

Source: The Washington Post, 20 March

His music was motor oil and sprayed hormones. Poet in advance of the social change, Chuck Berry offered to the postwar generation a lesson about civilization and sentiment on the rhythm of rock-and-roll, at the beginning of pop-music.

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Employers may sometimes ban staff from wearing headscarves

Source: The Economist, 14 March

A milestone decision of the European Court of Justice recognizes the employers right to ban the display of religious or ideological symbols in the workplace. The sentence, deplored by religious groups and humanitarian organizations, affirms the civil value of ideological and religious neutrality to go beyond dividing symbols.

Quantum leaps

Source: The Economist, 11 March

Quantum mechanics, the weird theory about the very tiny reality of ubiquitous and magically linked atoms and particles, opens a world of possibilities, - rather than certainties, replacing the old notion of a deterministic and measurable universe with an invisible dimension for industrial use.

Baudrillard, réel killer

by Frédéric Joignot

Source: Le Monde, 4 March

Ten years ago died the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, who formulated the simulacra nature of the present reality, where the power of media images derealizes every event, showing that even theories can swallow the reality.

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Keynes valeur en hausse

by Antoine Reverchon

Source: Le Monde, 11 March

Sixty years after his death, the royalties on John Keyne’s work are extinct and his work arouses new great interest by editors, given the extraordinary topicality of his analysis and prescriptions, useful not only to economists in the strict sense of the word, but also to run a public administration.

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Pharrell’s expanding universe

Source: The Observer Magazine, 12 February

The great pop-musician Pharrel Williams has produced the movie Hidden Figures, the story of three extraordinary and ingenious afro-american women and NASA scientists who faced with determination and female spirit the racial and feminine segregation in the Sixties.

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Camicette bianche. Oltre l’8 marzo

Source: https://letteratitudinenews.wordpress.com, 8 March

This book photographs and depicts the unknown 146 victims, 38 Italian, of the tragedy at the Triangle Waist, revising archive material and a network of witness handed over generations, reading some of the histories on the light of very ordinary stories, made of hope, dreams, and work.

Looking at the stars

Source: The Economist, 24 December 2016

This book tells the sweated work of the women astronomers, called “computers”, that at the Harvard College Observatory in the late 19th century through the photography captured, charted and began to store and systematize the firmament movements, and with their “glass universe” started stellar spectroscopy.

Obiettivo 5 e Festa della Donna, ad “Alta sostenibilità” il lavoro femminile

by Elis Viettone

Source: http://www.asvis.it/, 7 March

The Goal of Gender Parity in the 20130 Agenda is to interpret cross the others, like the Goals for the access to education, to a decent job, to technologies. The 2030 Agenda enhances the whole personal sphere and life dimension of the woman, including the sexual one, questioning the stereotypes.

Why literature is the ultimate big-data challenge

Source: The Economist, 1 March

With the publication of the “ New Oxford Shakespeare”, maths gets in the literary analysis. This new edition studies the authorship of works in Elizabethan England through a computational analysis spotting words that in their function and mechanic in the phrase turn out as distinctive lines of an author.

Le “chacun son régime” nourrit la croissance de l’agroalimentaire

by Nadine Bayle

Source: Le Monde, 26 February

Nutrition has become the most important mark of a lifestyle, anxiety, and care of the body like a medicine, a cosmetic or fashion. The alimentary practices and “against” are more and more niche choices and are worth a vote in the market, allowing to innovate the economic models.

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Die künstlerische Freiheit der Astrophysik

by Sibylle Anderl

Source: Die Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2 March

Some scientific discoveries are so fascinating as to carry imagination in territories where science and art meet together. The system of the seven planets orbiting around the star Trappist-1 has moved the most exotic fantasies as if we were about to go there on holiday.

Mit Gas gegen “leere Menschenhülsen

by Jan Erik Schulte

Source: Die Zeit, 1 March

The Nazis called euthanasia, translated from Greek, the systematic slaughter, committed before the Jewish genocide, of disabled and mentally ill people, executed on the base of a form filled in by both an officer of the Interior Ministry and the institutions' director attesting the unproductiveness of the patients.

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