We know more or less well how the Covid-19 outbreak started: probably because of bats, near Wuhan in China. What no one knows yet is how the pandemic will end. This coronavirus is unprecedented in the combination of its easy transmissibility, a series of
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How the coronavirus spreads from one victim to another remains an impenetrable mystery. But in the midst of all the frantic efforts to understand the spread of the epidemic, there is one finding that seems consistent: transmission is inconsistent. Some people - most, in fact - do not
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The fourteenth edition of the annual report on the Global Peace Index, the leading measure of global peace, reveals that in 2020, the average level of world peace has deteriorated for the ninth time in 12 years. A total of 81 countries have improved their situation
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The health crisis has been going on for four months. The danger of an epidemic seems to be receding but the human, social and economic damage is revealing itself every day. Already the first assessments of our country's attitude during the crisis are taking shape. The Montaigne Institute has just published a detailed report analysing the action taken by our country during the crisis.
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Deconfinement is progressing in most Western countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic. An unprecedented period is coming to an end, and once the astonishment is over, languages are being loosened. Some twenty-fifth hour workers are coming to give lessons and rewrite history, while others had always put in
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It's an enigma that has been with us since the early days of the pandemic. Where did this coronavirus come from that turned the world upside down? Hypotheses have been put forward and everyone has put forward their own explanation: the virus comes from a bat, a pangolin, it escaped from a Chinese lab,
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After the collective shock of the coronavirus epidemic, nothing can be the same anymore. The living reality imposes itself on us. Planetary and ecological logics force us to review our ways of innovating, exchanging and investing. We must reconsider our projects. So, can this health crisis we have just gone through change the way we live?
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Freedom regained! headlines. After two and a half months of confinement, little by little, people come out, get together, relive, a little haggard, at the end of this strange period. The health crisis is dissipating, but it is giving way to a crisis.
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Medicine, biology, genetics, pharmacology, zoology, but also environmental sciences are of course in the front line in the fight against Covid-19. But, in the face of the coronavirus, and unlike the previous major epidemics that have hit the planet since the beginning of this century - avian flu, SARS, influenza, etc. - the virus is not a new phenomenon.
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At the end of May, when the Prime Minister has just announced a new deconfinement package, it is useful to make an initial transitional assessment of the Covid-19 epidemic. For Professor Jean-François Toussaint, who signs the following article, from the beginning of the crisis,
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The pandemic at Covid-19 is not over, let summer come. Specialists predict that it will be hot and that the scorching temperatures will break records. This is already the case, this month of April and May in South-Eastern Europe, which is suffocating. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned this Tuesday 26 May
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"Tonight, I share with you what we know and what we don't know." (Emmanuel Macron, address to the French, 13 April 2020). Here is a President of the Republic openly claiming his ignorance while experts publicly acknowledge that Covid-19 is far from having revealed all
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The Italian architect Stefano Boeri is known worldwide for his green towers in Milan and his forest cities in China. After the passage of the Covid-19, he advocates a return to villages, the greening of cities and profound changes in lifestyles. Otherwise, our current cities
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However, in the uncertainty that now holds us back, there is one certainty: what we are experiencing - and are about to experience - is indecipherable with the software of the world before us. Impossible to invent a new human society with these references! The challenge had already been posed during
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Resuscitation, death, contamination... Almost 15 days after deconfinement, these indicators are rather positive. However, the authorities judge that it is too early to draw conclusions. And this, despite the opinion of scientists who no longer hesitate to say that the Covid-19 epidemic is behind us. Especially since there is news
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We can read and rethink everything through the Covid crisis: our institutions, our economic dynamics, our ecological and social policies. We can also read contributions from almost all sciences. Much has been said about the role of certain mathematical applications related to artificial intelligence.
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In our post-viral world, major issues concerning the environment, education, and international relations arise. UNESCO has invited leading women thinkers, specialists in fields ranging from climatology to international relations, physics and African studies, to express their vision of the challenges and opportunities.
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Do large office towers still have a future? The explosion of telework with the pandemic is giving ideas to companies who see it as a source of savings, even if it means changing the world of work in depth. Since the beginning of containment, business districts have emptied out, leaving
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The acuity of the historical nature of the coronavirus comes largely from the triple conjunction of the immediacy of its impact, the consequences of its global magnitude and the evidence of its transformative nature. With a swiftness and certainty rarely so combined in international relations, there is a palpable consensus that the coronavirus is the most powerful virus of all.
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"The French will be able to go on holiday in France in July and August": it's official, Edouard Philippe has just announced this Thursday, May 14th. The deconfinement seems to be on the right track. Even if the Minister of Ecological Transition, Elisabeth Borne, has announced the creation of a
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