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Abstract This is the second generalist lecture and will address the problem of how to define life. It is approached through five of the great ideas of biology: the Cell, the Gene, Life as Chemistry, Life as Information, and Evolution by Natural Selection. …

Abstract The history of print and printing suggests that we should not reduce the history of texts to the history of books : forms, posters, leaflets and catalogs are all non-book texts likely to preserve traces of the existence of lost works. The loss of …

Abstract The lesson begins with a tribute to the cities of Ukraine, and Kiev in particular, bombed by Russian forces. Volney's pages resonate terribly with these current events. Volney's meditation on the ruins is the promise of a new work, the starting …

Abstract From Marcel Detienne's great book Les Maîtres de vérité dans la Grèce archaïque (1967), we have retained the image of a kind of " premier âge " of " pensée grecque ", during which aedists, diviners, " rois de justice " and other " sages " (sophoi …

Did the Black Death send medieval societies into a frenzy of religious reason? To answer this question, we undertake a genealogy of the notion of " panique ", as a crisis of interpretation and ritual frenzy, in the historiography of religious practices …

Renos Papadopoulos Renos K. Papadopoulos, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, Director of the "Centre for Trauma, Asylum and Refugees" as well as Honorary Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Family …

Abstract When an atom gains one or more electrons because it is more electronegative than the others, it becomes an anion and therefore has a negative charge that enables it to interact with the other members, creating the chemical bond. The state of the …

Abstract Great hopes have recently been placed on the emergence of anionic redox : a transformational approach enabling the design of high-capacity positive electrodes. However, some questions have been raised in particular about the basis of the origins …

Temples were conceived as the habitat of deities, who were embodied in cult statues. But these statues could be damaged , destroyed or taken captive. How did the Mesopotamians deal with such …

Abstract Halogenated hybrid perovskites, only marginally studied since the late 1990s, notably for their light-emitting properties, emerged spectacularly a decade ago in the context of photovoltaics. With sunlight conversion efficiencies now approaching …

Abstract In addition to the changes in the Earth's radiation balance mentioned in the first lecture, glacial cycles have induced a second positive feedback by strongly changing the albedo, the reflection coefficient of incident solar radiation, …

Contrary to what might have been expected, the development of photovoltaics is reflected in an exceptional dynamism in fundamental research into new materials, new concepts and new architectures that are likely to revolutionize established technologies in …

This lecture will take a brief look at the history of infectious diseases in humans, and how we can use the tools of human genetics to better understand our differences in the face of infectious diseases - from predisposition to resistance to developing …

Semantic and conceptual analysis of the notion of merit. …

Knowledge of Biblical Hebrew essential. …

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James Hollan Jim Hollan is Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. He is a 2021-2022 Paris-IEA Fellow and founding Co-Director of the UCSD Design Lab and the HCI and Distributed Cognition …

Abstract This lesson continues to identify references to nomos as the ordering willed by the gods. In Heraclitus of Ephesus (fr. 144 D-K6 ), we find an interesting comparison between the common foundation of the logoi , the logos (cf. fr. 2 D-K6 ), and …

Human-computer interaction draws its theories and methods from a wide variety of disciplines, particularly in the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences. This lesson presents the main readings from studies of humans, including perception, …