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Why is the world the way it is? How did we get here? Does everything happen for a reason, or are some things left to chance? Philosophers and theologians have pondered these questions for millennia, but startling scientific discoveries over the past half century are revealing that we live in a world driven by chance. A Series of Fortunate Events tells the story of the awesome power of chance and how it is the surprising source of all the beauty and diversity in the living world.

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.

What connects 200 hand-holding monks, a lump of gold hidden in a beaker, and irradiated cocktails? Welcome to Making Science with Tom Whipple, Science Editor at The Times and Sunday Times. This is the podcast where history, innovation, and the unexpected collide, as we uncover jaw-dropping stories behind the scientific discoveries we take for granted. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea - bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience - and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the 21st century.

The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state legislatures and at school board meetings. Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of intelligent design today, Michael Lienesch skillfully analyzes one of the most formidable political movements of the 20th century.

Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on Gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often used in derogatory terms to describe scientists who have overstepped a perceived moral line. But how did a 19-year-old woman with no formal education come up with the idea for an extraordinary novel such as Frankenstein?

Jacob Riis, a renowned reporter and documentary photographer, offers a poignant glimpse into his life in New York City. Through his autobiography, he vividly recounts his tumultuous early years and relentless pursuit of love in Denmark, followed by his transformative journey as a struggling immigrant in the United States. His experiences as a journalist in the bustling, impoverished immigrant neighborhoods of lower Manhattan ignited his fervor for social reform. Riis poignantly asserts in his opening note, “To those who have been asking if they are made-up stories, let me say here that ...

Penser le 9-3 vous emmène en balade dans la Seine-Saint-Denis loin des clichés et des journaux télévisés. Ici, au cœur du 93, on part micro au poing en compagnie de chercheurs et de chercheuses pour mieux comprendre le département dans toute sa diversité et dans toutes ses contradictions. Ils et elles sont nombreux et nombreuses ses à travailler dans le département, pourtant leurs travaux sont souvent ignorés de ceux et celles qui habitent le territoire ou qui y travaillent. Il est donc temps de mettre en lumière ces travaux et de les discuter. Une série d'Antoine Tricot ...

Travailler à la campagne est une série réalisée par la promotion 2023/2024 des étudiant.es du Master Journalisme de l’université de Bourgogne dans le cadre d’un atelier autour de la narration sonore et du documentaire radiophonique. Ils ont été accompagnés par Antoine Tricot pour le volet sonore et par les sociologues Jérôme Berthaut et Benoît Coquard pour la partie scientifique. De la petite fonction publique territoriale aux professions des soins à la personne, des métiers de la marge aux tâches partagées en famille par les agriculteurs, le travail revêt dans les ...