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Weaning Myself Off Social Media: Why I Deleted Facebook, and Why I Keep Coming Back
Just because you have not been radicalised, it doesn’t mean you are not being manipulated.
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5 sept.6 min de lecture


Why is the US Threatening to Ban TikTok?
Last week, Joe Biden signed a bill that could eventually lead to TikTok being banned on US soil.
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1 mai 20246 min de lecture


“Let Him Have It”: The Unbearable Lightness Of Meaning
Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist who pioneered theories on the communication of meaning. He proposed a two-part model of...
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11 mars 20244 min de lecture


Are Conspiracy Narratives Sustained by Popular Culture?
Warning: the following blog post may contain minor spoilers about Le Porteur d’histoire, Dune, and Slumdog Millionaire I recently had...
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2 mars 20244 min de lecture


Passing for French
I consider myself very lucky to have dual nationality; I have two countries. Two cultures. Two languages? It’s complicated… Born to an...
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19 avr. 20236 min de lecture


Was Brexit a Failure?
The question may seem like a strange one – after all, Boris Johnson succeeded in delivering Brexit – but beyond the legal and technical...
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12 avr. 20234 min de lecture


On Pessimism, Partisanship and Polarisation
Successive political, social, and health crises in western democracies – indeed in most of the world now – mean that staying abreast of...
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3 janv. 20239 min de lecture


Why I (probably) won’t be watching the World Cup
My first memories of the World Cup are of Mexico 86; I was eight years old that summer. England made it to the quarter finals and...
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15 nov. 20227 min de lecture


Soil conservation farming and climate change #2
How improving carbon sequestration in the soil could offset practically all new carbon emissions and can help farmers adapt to the reality of climate change.
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24 août 20223 min de lecture


The Political Race to the Bottom of the Brainstem
Tristan Harris, a former Google engineer who now advocates for ethical social media algorithms, coined the term “race to the bottom of...
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28 févr. 20224 min de lecture


The social media trap
We need a moratorium on children’s use of social media On 2 September 2021, French children born in 2010 started secondary school (or “...
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25 oct. 20214 min de lecture


Mots Maudits #5: The perils of solidarité
“Solidarité” is one of those curious terms that – although it translates word-for-word into English – is just far more common in French.
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27 janv. 20212 min de lecture


"La rentrée" in the time of Covid: Changing norms around disease control
The rentrée has caused me to reflect on the impact that the pandemic will have on the management of infectious diseases.
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8 sept. 20203 min de lecture
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