OBRA MAESTRA

CONVERSATION D’AVENIRS
Les Pygmées (Afrique)
Diffusée le 08/12/2010 Durée : 15 minutes
VIDEO
http://www.publicsenat.fr/vod/conversation-d-avenirs/les-pygmees/67264
Le mot pygmée (du grec πυγμαιος, pygmaios, haut d’une coudée) désigne un individu appartenant à des populations spécifiques caractérisées par leur petite taille, inférieure à 150 cm. Il ne s’agit pas de nanisme au sens commun (maladie due à la mutation [...]

The Kogi or Kogui or Kaggabba, translated “jaguar” in the Kogi language are a Native American ethnic group that lives in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. They are one of the few surviving Pre-Columbian civilizations of South America.
The Kogui language belongs to the Chibcha family.
“The journey to reach their native lands involves [...]

Born
Dorothy Irene Height March 24, 1912(1912-03-24) Richmond, Virginia, U.S.

Died
April 20, 2010 (aged 98) Washington, D.C., U.S.

Occupation
Educator and social activist

Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an African American administrator, educator, and social activist. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, and was awarded the Presidential [...]

The Hayden Planetarium is a public planetarium located on Central Park West, New York City, next to and organizationally part of the American Museum of Natural History.
From: Wikipedia®

From: ® http://www.haydenplanetarium.org
Since February 2000, the planetarium has been one of the two main attractions within the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The top half of the [...]

First ‘Human Rights Charter’ is Persian

A 2,500-year-old clay cylinder bears what has been called the world’s “first human rights charter” and was inscribed under the direction of the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE. In the Greek Bible (Isaiah 45:1), Cyrus is called “Christ” (“…τῷ χριστῷ μου Κύρῳ…”) or [...]

le 19 janvier 2010 8h12 | par Joël Bomane
January 19, 2010 9:05 | by Jacques Attali
As often, a natural event can be used as a metaphor for a social phenomenon.
And, to describe and understand crises, nothing is better than the metaphor
of an earthquake.
First, an economic crisis, like any earthquake, is the result [...]

Michael Sandel
“Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history”
Copyrights: WGBH Boston and Harvard University

“Sandel has opened up an important area of debate at a time when some of the unquestioned assumptions underlying economic policy and praxis of the last few decades have been exposed as fraudulent and are being questioned. What happens [...]

© Matthieu Ricard (born 1946) is a Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.
Recently the Dalai Lama Center Canada organized a Peace Summit in Vancouver with the Dalai Lama and other Nobel Prize winners and speakers. One evening the rock singer and humanitarian Bob Geldof, whose Live Aid concerts have [...]

Walter Mischel

Columbia University
Paul Meehl, in one of his last public speeches, memorably noted that most clinical psychologists select their methods like kids make choices in a candy store: They look around, maybe sample a bit, and choose what they like, whatever feels good to them.
New report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, [...]

09/10/2009
NEWS
The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
awarded to:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA…

“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”

Photo: Pete Souza, Obama-Biden Transition Project, licensed by Attribution Share Alike 3.0

Barack Obama

USA

44th President of the United States of America

b. 1961

“His diplomacy is founded in the concept that [...]