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Auto-organisation shapes us

Lego is a game accessible to any child with a little curiosity. A few studs are enough to assemble shapes whose variety is only limited by the creativity of the player. Did you know that 6 bricks of 2x4 studs can make more than 915

No crash for the fly.

The return of spring is accompanied by a parade of insects, annoying mosquitoes, irritating flies, and buzzing wasps, which we often crush without hesitation. Let's make a bet that by the end of this article your attitude towards these insects will have evolved. What if

The Grail of the Cerebral Cortex

About 2,600 years ago the pre-Socratic school of thought emerged (Collective, 1988). Without marching noisily through the streets, these philosophers showed a crucial freedom of thought. They abandoned mythology to anchor themselves to reason. The poetic narrative that was supposed to explain the world was

The fly that wanted to become a Jedi

In the distant planet Coruscant, Master Yoda enjoys practicing his Jedi art alone in the high council chamber. He is assured concentration, peace and discretion here. But, no matter how great of a Master he was, he did not notice that a curious and stealthy

Doing a lot with little

There is no need to introduce Charles Darwin, biologist and father of the theory of evolution. He argues that living things can adapt to their environment throughout their lives and pass on these adaptations to their descendants. He adds that those better suited to their

A map to explore knowledge

It's the year 300 BC. An illustrious stranger puts one last touch to a parchment that represents 200,000 kilometers of road, 555 cities, rivers and mountains. It covers the entire Roman Empire, the Near East, India, China and even Switzerland. A colossal work for that

Are we Shadoks?

In 1968 France entered into a social eruption, an occurrence she is very used to. At the same time, she launched on the airwaves of the ORTF, a television series that was as original as it was absurd: the Shadoks (Rouxel, 1968). The Shadoks were

How do we invent hypotheses ?

The 2010s were a "mirum decennium" for physics. In 1916, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves which was confirmed in February (Einstein, 1916) 2016 (Abbott & al., 2016). In 1964, Englert, Brout and Higgs proposed a mechanism to explain the mass of fundamental