A space telescope for Christmas!
The James Webb Space Telescope is being prepared in the Ariane 5 rocket that will soon put it into orbit. On November 22, Arianespace technicians were installing the telescope in […]
François Provencher
The 737 MAX still nailed to the ground
Almost a year ago, on March 15, 2019, I was writing an article asking why the FAA was not grounding the Boeing 737 MAX fleet. A few days after this […]
Donald Trump is going to have his wall, after all!
Despite all the political tribulations to prevent Donald Trump from building a wall, the United States will build one … but not the one Donald Trump thinks of. Indeed, the […]
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I do part of my technology watch with the Flipboard app. You can follow me at the following address: https://flipboard.com/profile.
The 737 MAX still nailed to the ground.
A few hours after my last article on the 737 MAX, Transport Canada grounded the fleet. The FAA, the U.S. aviation agency, followed the next day. Since then, Boeing engineers […]
An always topical presentation
A year ago, I had the opportunity to make a presentation to the community of interest of the Montreal business relations directors. The presentation focused on the role of the […]
Boeing 737 MAX: What do Transport Canada and the FAA expect before they immobilize the aircraft?
Last Sunday, a Boeing 737-8 MAX of the Ethiopian Airlines company crashed shortly after takeoff in similar circumstances to another incident in October 2018. Yesterday afternoon, the European Aviation Safety Agency […]
Transition of jobs between the industrial and digital age
This infographic, from Virtual Capitalist, shows the transition from the industrial era to the digital era in the United States between 1850 and 2015.In 1850, 60% of the population worked […]
Critique of the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
In 2011, Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli historian, published the book Sapiens, which will soon become an international bestseller. This book was translated into English in 2014 and in French […]
Fall has been busy!
It’s been several weeks since I’ve been able to write articles on Science Connexions. The fall was indeed very busy. After the family activities, the professional, sports, I was short […]
Science Connexions, the only non-professional scientific extension blog in Quebec?
I'm looking for, I can't find any other scientific extension blogs that are not published by professional organizations or journalists. If you know others, please let me know in the comments. […]
208 good reasons to live in the digital age
War is, unfortunately, a natural phenomenon in the human species. In fact, we only know two animal species that make war: Man and Chimpanzee!What is, fortunately, less normal is the […]
A dolphin asks for help from a diver!
In 2013, during a night dive to observe manta rays, a dolphin approached the divers. He swam with difficulty because of a fishing line.View this exceptional video on the Futura […]
A dolphin asks for help from a diver!
In 2013, during a night dive to observe manta rays, a dolphin approached the divers. He swam with difficulty because of a fishing line.View this exceptional video on the Futura […]
Francophone scientific websites and Blogs.
There seems to be remarkably few French-language scientific extension blogs. Here are some good French sites:1) Futura Science: https://www.futura-sciences.com/French Site created in 2001. Has more than 3 million visitors per […]
The French Society of Exobiology
The French company of Exobiology was founded in 2009 and seeks to: Federate Research in Exobiology in France Popularize the exobiology by means of conferences, workshops and exhibitions It has […]
Water ice on the surface of the moon
The news was in the press + from 26 August 2018: NASA confirmed the presence of water ice on the surface of the moon. It is the Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument, […]
The Big Bang
The Science connexions field of study begins 13,799,000,000 years ago with the "Big Bang". This cosmological model, which is now universally adopted, was proposed in 1927 by Georges Lemaître. In […]
The technohumanist first principle
Given that homo sapiens is a social animal and that we are the only species incapable of surviving without tools, our tools (technology) is, more than anything else, what makes […]