Month: August 2009

If you had to sum up Life on Earth in 160 characters, what would you say? If you had to express your own life in 160 characters, what would you say? If you had 160 characters to communicate with somebody from another planet, what would you say? If you had 160 characters to tell ET…

Last July, the “Fundación Universidad Rey Juan Carlos” (URJC) held a one-week summer course at Aranjuez (a middle-sized city about an hour-drive south of Madrid). It was not, however, what you would expect from a session of this nature (summer in Spain!!), say, a half-filled classed of not-so-motivated students just hoping to get some credit…

As promised, here comes the second part of the story “Explore. Dream. Discover” from August 10th. Once again, it makes reference to a Space.com post by Mr. Wayne Hale dating from July 19, 2009. This time around, Mr. Hale uses a magnificent metaphor, comparing Space Exploration with the carrying of the Olympic torch relay. Mankind…

The other day, while surfing the net for some Space news, I fell into a really cool article that immediately appealed to my imagination. Not only was it trying to convey a beautiful point -the need to carry on exploring outside Earth’s borders even through difficult times (see economic recession)-, but also it was written…

Le 16 juin dernier, Dominique Gilbert, secrétaire général adjoint de la Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (LDH) [1], est venu à Toulouse invité par l’Observatoire des Mydi-Pyrénées (OMP), pour partager son point de vue humaniste sur le développement durable. Sur ce, une des contributions majeures au modèle du durable visée par la LDH est certainement…