Most people have heard of SETI@home, the UC Berkeley-based project that harnesses the power of internet-connected computers to help search for extraterrestrial intelligence. But have you heard of NASA-funded Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a citizen science project run by Zooniverse? Here’s what they aim to accomplish: Is there a large planet at the fringes of ... More
Christian Dior is the epitome of elegance—there’s no doubt about it; it’s a fact. I appreciated Dior’s style as a teenager, driven by my early interest in fashion, but I truly discovered the world of Maison Christian Dior during an internship I had at Dior as part of my studies. Though my internship focused on marketing and management, I had access ... More
Robot sumo is a sport (yes, Wikipedia got it right) where two robots try to push each other out of a ring, much like traditional sumo wrestling. While I’m not particularly into sumo wrestling, I’m definitely into robots—especially sumobots, like this Real-Life Wall-E Robot. I’ve watched some exciting battles, with robots weighing up to 125 pounds, ... More
I had the chance to see French photographer Claude Iverné’s previous exhibition in Paris, which took place in 2012 at the Clémentine de la Féronnière gallery. You can read my post to learn more about it: Rashid Mahdi, Claude Iverné, and Sudanese Photographs. Iverné is back in Paris, but unfortunately, I’m not sure I’ll be able to see his ... More
In 2012, I shared my excitement with you about the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN in my post Higgs Boson: Our Understanding of the Universe Is About to Change. While the Higgs boson is now often described as the particle that “blew up” the universe, a recent article published by New Scientist raises a fascinating question: Believe it or ... More
My Steampunk doppelganger, adventurous space traveler Max Von Sama, is exploring time and space on the SamaAirship. She wants to know more about dark matter, she is looking for potentially habitable exoplanets (hence her destination: Kepler), and wants to find an answer to the Fermi question. She has ambition. Needless to say when I read: That is not dead ... More
At the time Jean-Michel Basquiat died (my post about the documentary and exhibition for the 50th anniversary of his birth), I was drawing my observing eye a.k.a da-eYe in the streets of Paris. And when I visited ‘Les Hiéroglyphes de Keith Haring’ in Paris, da-eYe had to pay tribute to his mentor (my post + pic here). If you’ve been reading this ... More
In a recent article published on the MIT Technology Review website, Tom Simonite, MIT Technology Review’s San Francisco bureau chief, explains how malicious software could use brain interfaces to help steal passwords and other private data: Nitesh Saxena, an associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has shown that it can also help ... More
Today is May, 4 and it’s Star Wars Day. So don’t be surprised if some people around you gather together, make Star Wars cakes or simply say to you: ‘May the 4th be with you!‘. On this special once-a-year celebration, I can’t help but think of Carrie Fischer, the legendary actress who played Princess Leia who died last year. ... More
Today, Sudan may be known for the genocide in Darfur by its infamous dictator President Omar al-Bashir, the deadly conflict in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile… If you read this blog and know my commitments through The MagkaSama Project, you already know the horrific situation many Sudanese are living. But what you may not know, is that Sudan is a ... More
Dans une interview vidéo pour Geopolitis publiée sur le site de la Radio Télévision Suisse, Wided Bouchamaoui, présidente de l’Union tunisienne de l’industrie, du commerce et de l’artisanat (UTICA), organisation qui a reçu le prix Nobel de la paix 2015 (j’en avais parlé dans ce post: 2015 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the ... More
