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“ Kubanychbek Isabekov, a legislator with the governing Ak Jol Party, told parliament on February 3 that the exhibit by Russian-American photographer Sergei Melnikoff, entitled “The Land of the Kyrgyz,” must not be shown in Kyrgyzstan because Melnikoff, who emigrated to the United States in the late 1980s, has been critical of human rights abuses in Russia, a patron state of Kyrgyzstan’s. “Russia is our major strategic partner. How can we allow such a person to hold his exhibits here in this country?” local media outlets quoted Isabekov as saying. After the parliamentary session, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev fired the director of the State Culture Agency, Sultan Raev, for allowing the exhibition.
— EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Central Asia: Bishkek Exhibit Cancelled; Photographers Face Increasing Scrutiny

Feb 07 2010 ∞
“ Colbert en 1666: « Pour accoutumer les peuples à se plier au roi, à nos mœurs, et à nos coutumes, il n’y a rien qui puisse plus y contribuer que de faire en sorte que les enfants apprennent la langue française, afin qu’elle leurs devienne aussi familière que les leurs, pour pouvoir pratiquement si non abroger l’usage de celles-ci, au moins avoir la préférence dans l’opinion des habitants du pays.[88] »
— Occitan - Wikipédia

Jan 15 2010 ∞
“ Christian Amatore et Philippe Walter (CNRS, ENS) ont en effet élucidé le rôle paradoxal du chlorure de plomb (un poison), retrouvé à l’état de traces au fond des vieux pots de fards et d’onguents - dont faisaient usages les Egyptiennes et les Egyptiens d’il y a 4000 ans.
— Sensationnelle redécouverte d’un secret antique : Le tube à essais

Dec 19 2009 ∞
“ Here is a Roman emperor who never set foot in Italy; a great conqueror – the greatest since Julius Caesar – who never led troops in the field; the most powerful man in the world, and one of its most paranoid; the richest and one of the most abstemious (he appears to have lived largely on greens and lemon juice). After spending years in his company, however, he is still something of a mystery to me. In fact, it sometimes seems to me that the period is most distinguished by its elusiveness…not least because of the place religion occupied in the life of Justinian and his contemporaries. It wasn’t merely that pre-Enlightenment Christians drank from a pool of unquestioning faith; during Justinian’s time, they grew drunk on it. Justinian’s favorite hobby, in fact, was arguing the most obscure points of Christian doctrine (you can easily see where we get the dictionary definition of “Byzantine”). This was brought home to me by way of one really illuminating scene that I included in the book; an incident that took place at the Hippodrome, Constantinople’s great arena for chariot racing. Justinian was seated in the imperial box, surrounded by 50,000 racing fans, when one of them (no doubt equipped with a megaphone) engaged him directly in a debate about the nature of the incorruptibility of Christ’s body. The emperor and the fan went toe-to-toe on the issue in stanza after stanza of extemporaneous verse on the murkiest kind of Christian dogma, with occasional cheers from the crowd when one debater got in a good one. It was as if New York’s Mayor Bloomberg spent halftime at a Knicks game debating the finer points of string theory with a physicist seated twenty rows away, and not only did no one think anything extraordinary about it, but the drunks in the cheap seats applauded.
— William Rosen (via azspot)

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“ The consumption of wild cereals among prehistoric hunters and gatherers appears to be far more ancient than previously thought, according to a University of Calgary archaeologist who has found the oldest example of extensive reliance on cereal and root staples in the diet of early Homo sapiens more than 100,000 years ago.
— Stone age pantry: Archaeologist unearths earliest evidence of modern humans using wild grains and tubers for food

Dec 16 2009 ∞
“ Turns out, somewhere between 130,000 to 190,000 years ago, the human species was reduced to less than 1000 breeding individuals—just a few thousand people in total.
— How shellfish saved the human race Boing Boing

Dec 10 2009 ∞
“ (p. 28) «Par grammatisation, on doit entendre le processus qui conduit à décrire et à outiller une langue sur la base des deux technologies qui sont encore aujourd’hui les piliers de notre savoir métalinguistique: la grammaire et le dictionnaire.» Sylvain Auroux, «Introduction. Le processus de grammatisation et ses enjeux», dans son Histoire des idées linguistiques, Tome 2, Liège, Mardaga, 1992, pp. 11-64
— Histoire et grammatisation (via fabriquevh)

Oct 03 2009 ∞

Émergence du Néolithique - Conférences de la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie

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Europe néolithique - Wikipédia

Europe néolithique - Wikipédia

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Culture de la céramique cardiale - Wikipédia

Culture de la céramique cardiale - Wikipédia

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