Urban nuclear power: illusions of Boris Pregel, visionary atomist physicist in 1961…… or how some scientists can be seriously wrong in their predictions and in the blind confidence they have in Science and in their discoveries! In a special page of the television news of November 1961, the atomic physicist Boris Pregel recommended to build […]
Month: november 2011
Debt crisis: abuse of unions in National Education in France
Union and social functioning and abuse in the French National Education, first or second item of the budget of France (alternating according to the years with the debt load) French national education is sick: the level of education of the pupils is in free fall but yet it costs more and more! Why? Or […]
Functioning of French national education: budget and abuse
Union and social functioning and abuse in French National Education Find out more: - Another very interesting video on the education system of our growing societies and the corresponding debate: education, why? .– See also this debate on gaps in national education programs Download the file (a newsletter subscription can […]
Solution to the crisis? Boost growth and above all trust: Argentine example 2001
Argentina experienced bankruptcy in 2001 following a serious economic crisis between 1998 and 2002. The details of this crisis are explained on this wiki page. What interests us is the method used to manage the way out of the crisis, explained in the short video that follows, taken from a news report from France3. Currently […]
Ready to throw away from Arte: planned obsolescence is not a recent practice
Documentary "Ready to throw" broadcast on Arte in early 2011 on industry practices aimed at reducing the lifespan of its products in order to increase its business volume. Contrary to what one might think, the practice of planned obsolescence is far from recent, but it has greatly accelerated over the past 20 years. […]
Ready to throw, history of planned industrial obsolescence
History of Planned Industrial Obsolescence Find out more: - Debate on Planned Obsolescence - Report on Industrial Obsolescence - Another report on the subject: Special Envoy: The Big Bluff
Download: Nuclear safety: studies and tests on Corium, melted heart, by the CEA
IRSN video about the research carried out in France at CEA Cadarache on the melting of a nuclear reactor core on the Phebus experimental reactor. A nuclear reactor core melts when it is no longer properly cooled. The nuclear fuel that composes it melts and turns into a mixture […]
experimental nuclear reactor Phoebus: fusion tests of the heart by CEA-IRSN
IRSN video about the research carried out in France at CEA Cadarache on the melting of a nuclear reactor core on the Phebus experimental reactor. A nuclear reactor core melts when it is no longer properly cooled. The nuclear fuel that composes it melts and turns into a mixture […]
Documentary on the formation of Earth and the evolution of species
"Journey to the origins of the Earth", a documentary to see and make known absolutely! Documentary on the origins of the Earth and of life on Earth: initial formation, geological and climatic evolutions, biological evolutions, mass extinctions… Find out more: - Continuation of the video, download and debate on this documentary “Journey to the origins of […]
Documentary "Journey to the origins of the Earth" (formation, geology, climate, evolutions, extinctions…)
Journey to the origins of the Earth Very interesting documentary on the formation of the Earth and the origins of life on Earth: initial formation, geological and climatic evolutions, biological evolutions, mass extinctions… Find out more: - Debate on the origins of the Earth - Is the evolution of species due to chance? […]