Music & Science-Fiction
It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads. When the Overlords of Arthur C. Clarke landed on our planet, they were surprised by the energy that our species appl...
François Bon
there is no predicate "this is literature"
Several times in your texts, you emphasize the strength of the ecosystem of reading. As a publisher, how do you feel our digital environment has changed our rel...
Permanent revolution in Lewe
Thomas Paine’s adoptive town
Thomas Paine, who is credited with helping to spark the French and American revolutions, is burning a hole in my pocket. Instead of the Queen’s face on British banknotes, I have Th...
Italian makers take action
In Europe, Italy was the first country to be an epicenter of the novel coronavirus. As a result, mobilized Italian makers showed the way for makers around the world. Enrico Bassi of Opendot fablab in Milan, spe...
Makers Nord Sud against Covid-19
opening health solutions on a global scale
Three regional networks spanning Brittany, France and West Africa have partnered with local health, research and corporate organizations to provide African fablabs wi...
Spanish makers’ ongoing fight
Co-founder of Makerspace Madrid, Cesar Garcia Saez also hosts La Hora Maker, a media & YouTube channel followed by more than 5000 makers in Spain. For Makery, he comes back on the mobilization of the makers...
UCL-Ventura
a breathing aid prototyped at F1 speed
100 hours: the time it took the team at University College London and Mercedes’s Formula 1 department to develop the first prototype of a CPAP device. In less than a mo...
JustOneGiantLab
Quantifying communities to analyze a pandemic
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If JOGL’s OpenCovid19 Initiative came out of a crisis, the multidisciplinary collaborations that are forming among its members around a growing nu...
Parisian textile makers
sew protective gowns for the frontline
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In early April, Makerscovid.paris received an outsize order from Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire (GHU)—for 8,400 protective gowns. Two labs and a library ...