Fascism: the decay of capitalism

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Quelques notes personnelles, en français, sur cette vidéo en anglais. En bref : Le fascisme s’installe en temps d’instabilité économique et politique, et a une esthétique codée qui facilite le recrutement. Le fascisme est causé par le capitalisme (qui crée les crises) et mène à la guerre, qui équilibre les ressources et permet d’avoir un…

Le soi-disant fossé des genres aux échecs

Read What gender gap in chess? by Wei Ji Ma

If you want to compare chess achievements between men and women, writes Professor Wei Ji Ma of NYU, given their vastly unequal numbers, it is a very bad idea to focus on the top male and female players. If you do you will need to account for the participation gap using an analysis similar to the one he presents. Prof. Ma supplies the tools needed to refute the theory of female inferiority.

(Cet article est un résumé personnel en français, avec parti pris, de l’article cité.) Les articles sur le fossé des genres aux échecs sont absurdes par principe, parce qu’ils partent du principe qu’il y a un fossé des genres en termes de niveau. Pour comparer un groupe sous-représenté et un groupe majoritaire, il ne faudrait…

Homesick by Jennifer Croft

Read Homesick by Jennifer Croft

Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers from debilitating and mysterious seizures, spending her childhood in hospitals as she undergoes surgeries. Meanwhile, Amy flourishes intellectually, showing an innate ability to glean a world beyond the troubles in her home life, exploring that world through languages first. Amy’s first love appears in the form of her Russian tutor Sasha, but when she enters university at the age of fifteen her life changes drastically and with tragic results.

I read this book in one go, thought « this was amazing, probably just a bit too bleak to be a believable story ». Then I opened The Storygraph to mark it as complete and found out it was a memoir. Bon. I really liked the division of the book into short scenes of daily life, or…