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Kondiaronk, un héros racinien ?

Marie-Christine Pioffet relate le dernier discours du chef Kondiaronk, artisan essentiel de la Grande Paix de Montréal de 1701.

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Quand le gouvernement congédie en silence une génération de Québécois

POINT DE VUE / L’auteur, Jean-Claude Bernatchez, est professeur titulaire, relations industrielles à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.

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Parc national de Frontenac | Rêver sous les étoiles

La nuit, les étoiles ne brillent pas uniquement au-dessus du mont Mégantic. Elles scintillent également au-dessus du parc national de Frontenac, qui a entamé des démarches pour obtenir une certification de parc international de ciel étoilé.

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Site archéologique Cartier-Roberval : en août, partez sur les traces de notre histoire durant le Mois de l’archéologie!

À l’occasion du Mois de l’archéologie, des centaines d’activités prennent vie partout au Québec. À Cap-Rouge, le site archéologique Cartier-Roberval, témoin de la première tentative de colonisation française en Amérique et lieu de rencontre des récits autochtones et français, ouvre ses portes aux familles avec une programmation gratuite où l’on peut résoudre des énigmes, toucher des artéfacts, rencontrer des archéologues… et marcher sur les traces de celles et ceux qui ont marqué l’histoire de notre territoire.

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Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support

Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilities

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Une candidate trans de QS se retire en raison de propos homophobes

Vanessa Durand, qui se présentait dans Westmount–Saint-Louis, s’en était prise aux péquistes queers.

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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf." The post AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale appeared first on Futurism.

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L’IA est-elle en train d’avaler Wikipédia ?

Vingt-cinq ans après sa création, l’encyclopédie participative Wikipédia est-elle menacée par l’intelligence artificielle (IA) ? La question était sur toutes les lèvres la semaine dernière à Paris, où se déroulait la Wikimania, le rendez-vous annuel des contributeurs bénévoles de ce site, le septième parmi les plus visités au monde.

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A Peptide Showdown: F.D.A. Scientists May Clash With R.F.K.’s Agenda

Agency scientists are advising against allowing widespread use of several peptide injections. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has said people should be free to experiment.

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« Burn lines » : une tendance à éviter

Avez-vous déjà vu passer sur TikTok la tendance des « burn lines » ou encore celle du « sun contouring » ? Ce sont des tendances qui datent de quelques mois déjà, mais elles ont un point en commun : elles encouragent ou valorisent l’exposition au soleil. Récemment, l’Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ) a publié une mise à jour concernant les écrans solaires et certaines fausses croyances qui circulent sur les médias sociaux.

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«Borderline Chaos»: requiem pour le système d’immigration canadien

Dans son premier essai, le journaliste Tony Keller revient sur la vague migratoire sans précédent qu’a vécue le Canada.

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Jérôme Dupras | De rockeur à chef d’orchestre de la science

Cet été, Contexte vous propose une série de grandes rencontres. Nous avons donné le champ libre à nos chroniqueurs pour choisir avec qui ils souhaitaient s’entretenir. Philippe Mercure a proposé d’aller se balader sur le mont Royal avec le nouveau scientifique en chef du Québec et bassiste des incontournables Cowboys Fringants, Jérôme Dupras. Un concept malheureusement perturbé par la pluie…

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What explains gender pay gaps in academia?

Gender pay gaps in academia are well documented. The harder question is why they persist. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences tested several leading answers to that question.

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Accusé de diffamation | Le jeune homme qui s’était filmé en train d’insulter une policière a été arrêté

Mohamed Bekkali, ce jeune homme qui s’était filmé en train d’insulter une policière, est maintenant accusé de diffamation envers des policiers. Une arrestation qui envoie « un message clair » d’après la mairesse de Montréal, Soraya Martinez Ferrada, qui planche toujours sur un règlement municipal empêchant les citoyens d’insulter les policiers.

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Leprosy is still spreading in Florida. These women want that to change

Rising evidence point to leprosy becoming "endemic" or common in Florida, but a new group is hoping to make it more obvious to patients and doctors.

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Projet de stockage de carbone Pathways | Une fiction climatique qui coûte cher aux Canadiens

Les réductions promises par le projet Pathways ne compensent même pas les émissions additionnelles de GES générées par l’augmentation de la production pétrolière, explique Johanne Whitmore.

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Dossier | Décryptage de manuscrits anciens | Quand l’IA se prend pour Indiana Jones (2 articles)

Décrypter des lettres d’amour compromettantes, des remèdes d’alchimistes ou faire revivre des millions de manuscrits de la Nouvelle-France : l’intelligence artificielle vient en aide aux érudits qui s’échinent à comprendre le passé à travers ces manuscrits anciens. Petit tour dans les officines de ces mordus. Un dossier de Karim Benessaieh.

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Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto

A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.

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Le message de Trump sur le pont Gordie-Howe a déclenché une véritable frénésie

Un diplomate américain a soulevé plusieurs questions concernant le pont Gordie-Howe lors d’un entretien téléphonique, peu avant que les commentaires formulés en février par le président américain Donald Trump sur ce projet transfrontalier ne déclenchent une tempête politique, selon des documents récemment publiés.

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To many people, culture means art, food, fashion or music – but what ought a cultured human know of science? **Robert P Crease** seeks your ideas **What counts as culture** According to the _New York Times Style Magazine_ , a cultured person should know about Norwegian porridge and Austrian wine, as well as a wide array of arts. But it made no mention of science. (Courtesy: iStock/vasantytf; iStock/extravagantni) The _New York Times_ recently published a 124-page special issue of its _Style Magazine_ entitled “How to be cultured”. According to the cover of this glossy, ad-driven supplement, the contents were “idiosyncratic” but amounted to a “compendium of what you need to know right now”. The material had been “chosen by experts” for the purpose of “teaching readers how to be more cultured”. Curious as to what would be included, my hopes were raised by the magazine’s lead editorial. It said that the issue “celebrates expertise, a quality ever less valued in our culture today, where learnedness and firsthand research can be overshadowed by slick presentation and dumb certainty”. Now, I’m not naïve. I know that the _New York Times Style Magazine_ caters to advertisers, who in turn cater to wealthy readers who feel the need to spend gobs of money to get culture. It didn’t therefore surprise me to have to leaf through 40 pages of adverts for jewellery, champagne, watches and home furnishings before finally coming across the table of contents. I saw headings for film, food, music, theatre, fashion and the visual arts. Shakespeare showed up several times: over half a dozen plays, sonnet #94 and one of his monologues. There were entries for 1930s movies, animated videos and films from Brazil. One page on food and drink covered porridge from Norway, meat from Mexico, lemonade from Vietnam and wine from Austria. > There was no mention of science in “How to be cultured”, nothing at all Novels from the US, UK, France, Japan, India and Brazil made the list, as did selections of music from medieval times to opera and hip-hop. Samples of theatre, puppetry and architecture made it in too. But there was no mention of science, nothing at all. The closest I found were architectural materials such as plaster, glass, steel and textiles. ## Snow’s lament The absence of anything scientific should not have shocked me; in fact, it reminded me of the British scientist and novelist C P Snow’s 1959 essay _The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution_. Even back then, Snow lamented that humanists and scientists were living in two separate cultures divided by a “gulf of mutual incomprehension”. In the essay’s most famous passage, Snow wrote that “a good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists”. “Once or twice,” he went on, “I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of ‘Have you read a work of Shakespeare’s?’” #### Two Cultures: 50 years down the line Read more Snow did not stop there. “I now believe,” he continued, “that if I had asked an even simpler question – such as, ‘What do you mean by mass, or acceleration’, which is the scientific equivalent of saying, _Can you read?_ – not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language.” “So the great edifice of modern physics goes up,” he concluded, “and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their neolithic ancestors would have had.” ## Culture club Snow’s tone was snobby and arrogant, but he was on to something. Can someone who knows nothing about, say, Einstein’s equation _E_ = _mc_ 2 or about Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle really be called cultured? Sure, cultured individuals don’t need to know much about these topics. But they ought at least to realize that those equations concern how mass and energy work and the inherent limitations to what humans can know. I’d say those are principles fundamental to the formation, maintenance and fate of the universe – and ones that a cultured person ought to know something about. Indeed, references to them are routinely found in arts and popular culture. Einstein’s equation has made the cover of _Time_ magazine, while the uncertainty principle has been taken up by novelists, theologians and comedians. > Shouldn’t a cultured person be acquainted in some way with the existential threats facing the world? Further, shouldn’t a cultured person be acquainted in some way with the existential threats facing the world? Wouldn’t such a person have to have an inkling of the way a carbon molecule absorbs and emits heat, of how vaccines work, and of safe and unsafe levels of substances toxic in high doses? How cultivated can an ostrich be? #### Measuring culture Read more Of course, there was nothing about the second law in “How to be cultured”, or about any other science of the sort Snow had in mind. Nothing about scientific equations, experiments, theories or facts that a cultured person ought to know. No discussion of dark matter, dark energy or of quantum physics, genes or vaccines. Nor about the Pythagorean Theorem or the double-slit experiment. ## The critical point Culture refers to the influences and values that are embedded in the way we live. Judging such influences and values – deciding which influences and values _ought_ to be so embedded – is a tempting but arrogant game. So let’s play. Imagine that you are among the experts charged with compiling a “compendium of what you need to know right now”. What would you include of science – and why? Send me your contributions, and tell me why they are what we need to know, and I’ll write about them in a future column. ## ### What science do you need to know to be cultured? Send your thoughts to Robert P Crease at robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. ### Want to read more? Registration is free, quick and easy **Note:** The verification e-mail to complete your account registration should arrive immediately. However, in some cases it takes longer. Don't forget to check your spam folder. If you haven't received the e-mail in 24 hours, please contact customerservices@ioppublishing.org. * E-mail Address Register

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Restauration de cours d’eau | Québec démantèlera neuf barrages

Québec se lance dans le démantèlement de ses vieux barrages non essentiels afin de remettre des cours d’eau à leur état naturel, emboîtant le pas à une tendance de plus en plus répandue dans le monde.

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Masculinisme | Les filles, on n’est pas en train de gagner la bataille…

Comment réagir, comme femme, quand on est confrontée à un discours masculiniste ? Une simple discussion avec trois gars autour d’une bière a secoué l’étudiante en science politique Alix Gravel, qui n’était pas préparée à faire face à autant de misogynie.

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Promenade Samuel-De Champlain: Québec s’attaque à l’est

Québec lance lundi un nouveau jalon dans la réalisation de la phase 4 de la Promenade Samuel-De Champlain. La prochaine étape en réalisation sera la revitalisation de l’Étang de la Côte, à l’est du secteur Beauport.

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