Update on November 24, 2022 at 11:19 am Published on November 24, 2022 at 11:14 am by Amel Sayad Paga, Jessica Thivenin or even Kévin Guedj… Several candidates from Marseille attended World Cup matches this week. Real football passion or big publicity stunt? To read laterSavedFollow #Reality TV#Reality TV Tracking Since this Tuesday, November 22, … Read more
A set of newly compiled data allows us to realize the place that beliefs around witchcraft take all over the world and to investigate the key factors associated with them. We thus realize that these beliefs vary according to the country and according to socio-economic status. Details of the study are published in the journal … Read more
Ailurophobia – the irrational fear of cats – is not very common. However, it would have touched an astonishing number of famous people, from Julius Caesar to Napoleon. If all these cases are not verifiable, some are attested by written records, or correspond to moments in history when this phobia was widespread. In fact, at … Read more
1. Lyon, capital of esotericism I am what is commonly called a “witch”. In any case, that’s how my relatives have fun naming me! Very focused on energies, the “spirituality” in its broadest sense, astrology (no comment… If you’re slanderous, my crystal ball will tell me and I’ll put a spell on you. I’m kidding… … Read more
A newly compiled dataset quantitatively captures beliefs in witchcraft in countries around the world, allowing investigation of key factors associated with these beliefs. Boris Gershman of the American University in Washington, DC, presents these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on November 23, 2022. Many previous studies conducted around the world have documented people’s … Read more
The perfect match! If the funeral nuptials between Hollywood’s enchanting neo-Gothic Tim Burton and the macabre and sardonic girl of the Addams Family, Wednesday, seem obvious, they had so far never succeeded. Approached to direct the 1991 film, the filmmaker had to give up due to his previous commitment to Batman, Barry Sonnenfeld sticks to … Read more
EXITS AT THE MOVIE THEATER OUR SELECTION OF THE WEEK WHAT TO SEE AT THE CINEMA FOR FILMS AND THEIR MUSIC ORIGINAL : Nicholas Britell meets Maria Schrader on this forensic biopic about the revelations behind the #Metoo movement with a dissonant cello (performed by Caitlin Sullivan) and delicate piano befitting the gravity of the … Read more
The first name his parents gave him became his surname. The first name she kept on her identity papers meant, in the Rwanda of the 1950s and 1960s, that she was baptized and could study in religious schools. Installed today in Normandy, where the green pastures frequented by disillusioned cows remind her of her native … Read more
The Gambia is still healing its wounds, five years after the departure of Yahya Jammeh, who led the country for 22 years by instilling fear and repression of the opposition. Last May, the government of Adama Barrow agreed to implement the recommendations of the commission which investigated crimes committed during the dictatorship. Objective: to launch … Read more
By Naomi Grimley Global health correspondent, Dakar 3 hours ago image caption, Serigne in integral plaster As Africa holds its first-ever conference on clubfoot – a condition that affects around one in 800 people worldwide – the BBC visits a clinic in Senegal to witness a life-changing treatment. At the start of the year, 14-year-old … Read more