Author: Sophie Laurent

TRIBON – In plain language, sociologist Philippe Derebarnay explains the many shortcomings of the scientific method for “Diclonial” research that was born in the United States, and is developing in France. The place occupied by the so-called colonial trend within universities is the subject of intense debate: does this approach stem from science, or rather from a strict approach decorated with the tinsel of science? The social reality on which this current focuses is not in question. True, in Western countries, the fate of members of certain social groups of non-European countries is statistically less favorable than the fate of…

Baltimore, August 30, 2021 (Globe Newswire) – EliteGamingLIVE (EGL), an e-learning platform that combines competition between schools and education to engage students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, announced today that it has raised $1.5 million in part of a funding round led by the venture capital firm. American Institute of Family Insurance for Corporate Impact and Social ImpactShare TELUS Pollinator Fund for a Better World Based on Rarebreed Projects. This funding is intended to enable the recruitment of key personnel to expand the platform’s capabilities and offerings. The company will also deploy a dynamic marketing strategy to expand into…

Kidneys from a connected living donor are stored in an isothermal container prior to transplantation, at Purdue University Hospital, in November 2020. Burger / fanny This is additional collateral damage from the Covid-19 pandemic to other patients, not least. Transplant activity fell nearly 16% in 2020 (and up to 31% during the first wave), causing the loss of more than 48,000 years of life, according to estimates by a study in 22 countries, published online August 31 in the review. Lancet Public Health. The results of this international work, coordinated by Professor Alexandre Lupi (Nephrologist, Director of the Center for…

On August 27, Canadian Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole launched his plan to reduce EI benefits for critically ill workers from 26 weeks to 52 weeks. It is a victory for the Conservative Party candidate from Montmagny – L’Islet – Kamouraska – Rivière-du-Loup, Bernard Genro, who has been campaigning for more than three and a half years within his party to get a resolution adopted to that effect. He was informed of the fate of Louperivoise compatriot Marie-Hélène Dubé who had experienced major financial problems after her multiple battles against cancer. Bernard Genero said: “The fact that the Liberals have…

L ‘Landscape Atlas of the Acoustic Oceans, published this year, offers you to plunge into the waters of the St. Lawrence River to discover – visually – a healthy universe. “We wanted to model underwater chronic noise produced by humans in order to obtain a mapping, an image,” offers Yvan Simard, Director of the Fisheries and Oceans Canada Chair in Underwater Acoustics Applied to Marine Mammals and Their Ecosystem. It is the work of a monk, or rather, data scientists and oceanographers who specialize in acoustics. It was implemented thanks to the collaboration between researchers from the Institute of Marine…

Kibele Toure was at the helm of the Senegalese Railway Company (CFS) for a year and a half. Here in his office on the Quai d’Orsay in 2017 © Cyrille Choupas / JA After a binational project with Mali failed, this ambitious technocrat close to Macky Sall was appointed head of the Senegal Railway Company. He reached an agreement with the Canadian Trade Corporation to structure a $2 billion investment plan aimed at rebuilding the Senegalese part of the railway axis between the two West African capitals. President Macky Sall in October 2018 called for the revival of the Dakar-Bamako…

Maxime Bellodo – Science Press Science. The “classic” pedal bike seems to be the least polluting vehicle imaginable: its fuel is calf juice. But what about electric bikes? Has it proven to be more polluting? The rumor detector And Unpointcinq Evaluation. Between the two wheels and the four wheels, the reason is audible. With 271 grams of CO22 Per passenger and per kilometer, a car emits 12 times more greenhouse gases (GHGs) than “muscle” electric (VAE) bikes. studying From the European Cycling Federation back to 2011, but she is still one of the few who took an interest in the…

A major gas leak forced the closure of part of Highway 640 for more than an hour, Sunday evening, between Montée Dumais and Montée des Pionniers, in Terrebonne. [Entrave majeure] We are assisting the Terrebonne Fire Department with a gas leak at 3779 Ch. Quarante-Arpents. Autoroute 640 is closed in both directions between Autoroute 40 and Montée Dumais. Detours are in place. pic.twitter.com/1zpT6heSUS- Police Tribune (PoliceTRB) August 29, 2021 “There are no consequences except for the highway closure and all the traffic that resulted during the last day of the weekend,” confirms Dave Sévigny, Terrebonne’s deputy director of the fire…

TRIBUNI – A group of experts* laments that “at present, bioethics in France appears to be confined to institutions.” The Bioethics Code Update has finally been completed. However, the exercise leaves us with a bitter aftertaste, as professionals in bioethics and other ethics related to health and life sciences. In France, bioethics is embodied mainly through ethics committees and “spaces for moral reflection”. This allowed professionals, gullible members, and other user representatives to grab the thread. But the current drift is their focus on producing reports and/or opinions and, indirectly, the laws and regulations that frame healthcare practices and/or biomedical…

(Cambridge) About 100 loud protesters tried to block liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s climate declaration in Cambridge, Ont. On Sunday, in his first public appearance since the party rally was cancelled. Posted on Aug 29, 2021 at 12:43 pm Updated at 14:42 Katherine Levesque Canadian Press “Traitor!”, “Tie him!”: Those were the palpable shouts of boos, trumpets, sirens and bangs on containers around the company in which the advertisement was made. There were about a hundred protesters, some with young children in their arms, others with upside down Canadian flags or even anti-vaccination banners. Photo by Jeff Robbins, AFP Despite everything,…