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According to a legend established since Antiquity , and widely disseminated in the work of Pliny the Elder , this small fish, by attaching itself to the Praetorian galley of Antony , kept it immobilized and gave the advantage to the army of Octavian, although less numerous and less well equipped. The Echeneis , or Remora , literally " the fish that slows down the course of ships " has a suction disk on its head, which allows it to cling to its host to be transported. Its legend, echoed by Aristotle, grew over the centuries and attributed many supernatural...

Multinationals , whether from Silicon Valley or not, are increasingly making headlines. Without always really understanding, we watch announcements pass over our heads that we imagine will have an impact on our lives at some point: Tesla is buying €1.5 billion worth of bitcoins (should I buy some too?); Total wants to change its name and call itself TotalEnergies from now on (but why? Am I changing its name?); Veolia is launching a takeover bid for Suez (is water likely to cost me more?); etc. Analyzing and understanding the strategies of these multinationals is not always easy. But, even more,...

This file was submitted to the UN in November 1950 , but the debate was adjourned. Things have remained there for 70 years . Theoretically, the file could be taken up again at any time , but that would surely not please everyone. What is it about? This is the debate regarding the Tibet issue . On October 7, 1950, the Chinese People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze and destroyed the Tibetan defenses. In Lhasa, the government downplayed the invasion in the hope of negotiating with Mao's China , then appealed to the UN . Supported by only one country—El...

Commonplace in college, but a worrying sign in the hospital… Do you know what it is? This is madness ! In "young" language, in the schoolyard, " what is this delirium? " could be translated as "what is it about?". Whereas in a psychiatric structure, the term is used only with the greatest caution since it refers to a loss of the sense of reality resulting in false, irrational convictions, to which a psychotic person adheres unwaveringly. It is also used in a less worrying way to evoke agitation mixed with incoherent speech linked to a high fever. And when...

It can be free or white , broken or reported , or even saturnine , but nothing and no one can define it! It is about the verse! The one that poems are made of. We know it well, we even recognize it, and we are comfortable with the alexandrine or the octosyllable, but despite everything there is no intrinsic property that allows us to distinguish, infallibly and for all cultures, the verse from the "non-verse"! Free verse , for example, has no regular structure; blank verse is a verse whose meter is regular, but not the rhyme. Saturnian verse...