Mémoires d’une résistance, l’autre histoire du Sahara occidental

Démesures. Une histoire du drone des 1960 à nos jours

La musique, cette forme rythmique par excellence, peut-elle remettre le rythme en question ? Peut-elle même être pensée... sans le rythme ? Christophe Levaux s’intéresse à une page oubliée de l'histoire musicale, à savoir le drone. Ce style musical non-métrique a été initié par LaMonte Young, qui voulait produire un son de drone (bourdon) ininterrompu, une note sans fin, sans rythme ! Tout d'ab...

Histoire du Sida: début et origine d'une pandémie actuelle

strains of nineteenth-century sectarian science. Although critical of orthodox science in this period, nonetheless they have implicitly drawn a model from late twentieth-century science-as a detached, professionalized undertaking-that was neither feasible nor relevant in this context. Most sectarians were practitioners rather than intellectual system-builders, and many sought fame, fortune and ...

Le droit du numérique : une histoire à préserver

Although the history of informatics is recent, this field poses unusual problems with respect to its preservation. These problems are amplified by legal issues, digital law being in itself a subject matter whose history is also worth presenting in a computer science museum. The purpose of this paper is to present a quick overview of the evolution of law regarding digital matters, from an histor...

Du rififi dans la pop music: une histoire oubliee du droit d'auteur

A 45-year time series of dune mobility indicating constant windiness over the central Sahara

[1] Although evidence is mounting that links global warming to changes in atmospheric dynamics over the Atlantic realm, similar studies over the African continent are lacking. And even if such models would exist, it would be difficult to verify their validity due to the paucity of meteorological observations and anemometers in the central Sahara. A pragmatic way around this problem is to monito...