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November 7, 2020
Bye Done !!!
A new hope for America and for the World
Joe's smile
April 21, 2019
Easter 2019
Easter nests : bon appetit !
Photo : NA
April 15, 2019
Notre Dame of Paris burnt, but still standing !
Christmas 2018
Photo : NA
March 2, 2019
50th anniversary of the maiden flight of the Concorde, piloted by André Turcat, Aerospatiale's director of flight testing (who i was lucky enough to meet in the 90's)
André Turcat in 1959
Source : North Aviation
Credits : Youtube
January 19, 2019
3rd Nuit de la Lecture (literally "night of reading")
Source : Ministry of Culture
For more info, see here
January 1, 2019
Happy New year to all of you !
December 25, 2018
Merry Christmas 2018 !
An angel is passing overhead...
Credits : Youtube
October 25, 2017
Opening ceremony of the new Ecole CentraleSupelec-University of Paris Saclay (moved from Chatenay-Malabry to Gif-sur-Yvette) by the President of French Republic Emmanuel Macron in Gustave Eiffel building (close to mine)
Credits : Youtube
August 21, 2017
Clear Skies ! It's eclipse day !
Watching a total solar eclipse is an extraordinary and unforgettable sky spectacle. One lives it, one feels it. During the totality, it's dark and cold (temperature gradient of 3°C). I observed the August 11, 1999 total eclipse on top of Paris, from the Montparnasse Tower 59th floor. It really was a great experience !
Enjoy the eclipse !!!
On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun. Anyone within the path of totality can see one of nature's most awe inspiring sights - a total solar eclipse. This path, where the moon will completely cover the sun and the sun's tenuous atmosphere - the corona - can be seen, will stretch from Salem, Oregon et Charleston, South Carolina.
Credits : Youtube
The eclipse weather forecast here
NASA TV
From Casper, Wyoming
Credits : Youtube
June 1, 2017
Speech of French President Emmanuel Macron after President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement
March 11, 2017
12th Night of the Owl organised by the Bird Protection League and the Regional Natural Parks of France here
Owls are very useful animals, however often unknown. For more info (in french)
Source : LPO
December 25, 2016
Merry Christmas 2016 and a Happy New Year 2017 !
November 17, 2016
First flight of french astronaut Thomas Pesquet to International Space Station ISS : the Proxima Mission here
Thomas Pesquet
In the Soyuz repliqua
Photo : Cité de l'Espace
Thomas and his partners Peggy Whitson (USA) et le Oleg Novitskiy (Russia)
Photo : NASA
In orbit
In the labo
Colombus laboratory
Photo : T.Pesquet
October 8-16, 2016
French Science Festival
The "coldest" book in the world
Credits : Youtube
September 7, 2016
Start of the 2016 Paralympics in Rio
Credits : Youtube
July 26, 2016
To Father Jacques Hamel
Photo : NA
July 23, 2016
Gala Dinner at Vaux de Cernay Abbey, under cistercian vaults
La table du Prieur
Photo : NA
The 12th century Abbey Church
Photo : NA
June 26, 2016
The Great masked Ball of Versailles
Photo : NA
June 23, 2016
Solar Impulse 2 makes history with successful Atlantic crossing
Takeoff from New York
Credits : Youtube
Landing at Seville
Credits : Youtube
Bertrand Piccard, Professor Auguste Piccard's grandson
Bertrand Piccard, in the footsteps of Charles Lindbergh
Solar Impulse's official website here
May 9, 2016
Mercury transit
On May 9, Mercury passed directly between the Sun and Earth, making a transit of the Sun. Mercury transits happen about 13 times each century. more...
Mercury transit from SDO
Credits : Youtube
February 29, 2016 :
2016 is a leap year, so, February has 29 days. Explanations by the Royal Observatory Greenwich UK more
September 28, 2015
Lunar total eclipse
Photo : Guillaume Cannat
April 18, 2015
L'Hermione
Credits : http://www.rochefort-ocean.mobi/itineraires
Reminder of U.S. liberty, replica of 18th century ship sets sail from France
(CNN) Lest we Americans forget that -- in the wellsprings of our nation -- France bore the torch of liberty alongside us, our old ally has launched a reminder from across the Atlantic's waves.
Smithsonian article : The Marquis de Lafayette Sails Again
Now that the ship that the Frenchman took on his 1780 trip to America has been rebuilt, its time to revisit his role in history
Photos of L'Hermione's construction work here
Official website of the Hermione here
January 7, 2015
Long Live Liberty !
Cartoon : Steve Bell
January 1, 2015
Best wishes for 2015
Happy New Year !
Welcome to the International Year of Light : official UNESCO's website here
December 25, 2014
Merry Christmas !
November 12, 2014
ESA-CNES : Philae to land on comet 67P on 12 November
Rosetta : Comet landing LIVE here
August 3-6, 2014
Escapade in Somme Bay, Picardy France
Aerial view
Credits : Sommetourisme
Map
Credits : voyageons-autrement.com
The Somme Bay from Cape Hornu
Photo : NA
Cape Hornu Hotel (Saint Valery upon Somme)
from where I visited the bay and its surroundings
Photo : NA
The Somme Bay and Bird House
Photo : NA
William The Conqueror Gate (Saint Valery upon Somme)
Photo : NA
A Saint Valery typical restaurant in downtown
Photo : NA
January 6, 2014
Frigid air from the North Pole: What's this polar vortex?
Americans in two dozen states from the Midwest to the Southeast and Northeast are shivering this week courtesy of a distorted polar vortex. The rush of cold air it's sending southward is the biggest visitor from the North Pole since Santa Claus. The gifts it brings, however, are chilling and generally unwelcome. Much of the United States has plunged into a deep freeze from record low temperatures.
CNN International senior meteorologist Brandon Miller answers a few pressing questions about this phenomenon.
January 1, 2014
Happy New Year !
Every Day Is A First Day
May peace fill all the empty spaces around you
And in you, may contentment answer all your wishes.
May comfort be yours, warm and soft like a sigh.
And may the coming year
show you that every day is really a first day,
a new year.
Let abundance be your constant companion,
so that you have much to share.
May mirth be near you always,
like a lamp shining brightly
on the many paths you travel.
May you be true love.
December 25, 2013
Merry Christmas to all of you !
October 8, 2013
Nobel Prize For Physics 2013: Francois Englert And Peter W. Higgs Honored For Higgs Boson Research
Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize For Physics on Tuesday for their research into the Higgs boson particle, nicknamed the "God particle."
The award is given annually for the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics.
Peter Higgs et François Englert
Credits : Wikimedia Commons
What is the Higgs Boson ? by the theoretical physicist at CERN, John Ellis
Credits : Youtube
June 16, 2013
50th International Paris Air Show
The Paris Air Show is the world's oldest and largest air show. It will be held on the 17th to the 23rd of June 2013 at Le Bourget airport in North Paris France.
Introducing Paris Air Show 2013
Credits : Youtube
The International Paris Air Show is organised by Salon International de l'Aeronautique et de l'Espace (SIAE), a subsidiary of Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales (GIFAS). The 50th Paris Air Show will take place at Le Bourget exhibition centre from 17 to 23 June 2013, and will once again bring together all the industry's players across the globe to showcase the latest technological innovations. The first 4 days of the Show, exclusively for trade visitors, are followed by 3 days for the general public.
Paris Air Show Peek: Wide-Body Battle and Drones
The Paris Air Show, which opens for business on Monday Jun. 17, brings hundreds of aircraft to the skies around the French capital, the usual tense competition between aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus, and a slew of innovations large and small. Here's what to look for over the show.
Airbus A350 successfully completes maiden test flight
Airbus A350 first flight on Friday 14 June 2013
Credits : Airbus
The newest aircraft from European planemaker Airbus has successfully completed its maiden test flight.
The Airbus A350 is designed to be more fuel-efficient, and a direct competitor to US rival Boeing's 787 Dreamliner.
It is seen as vital to the future of Airbus, which competes with Boeing to supply the majority of the world's airlines with new planes.
Visit the official website here.
Visit the USA at the Paris Air Show 2013's website here.
June 11, 2013
Test and measurement day at Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau France
SIMTEC Conferences :
Conference 10h-10h45: Why using FPGA in modular instrumentation ?
Conference 10h-11h: SIMTEC recrute : Réussir son parcours dans le monde du Test & de la Mesure
Conference 11h-12h15: Maintenance & Métrology : Prestations, périodicités, normes, délais, coûts… les questions que vous vous posez
Conference 14h-14h55: Du test en production au test en réparation
Conference 14-15h: Directives, marquage CE et normes réglementaires applicables aux appareils de test et mesure
June 4, 2013
Common Carder-bee (Bombus Pascuorum)
Photo : NA
June 3, 2013
The Bee
Photo : NA
Honeybee Food May Contribute to U.S. Colony Collapse
Bee keepers' use of corn syrup and other honey substitutes as bee feed may be contributing to colony collapse by depriving the insects of compounds that strengthen their immune systems, according to a study released on Monday.
May 30, 2013
Can a mammoth carcass really preserve flowing blood and possibly live cells ?
Yesterday brought a flurry of news stories trumpeting a mind-blowing discovery from the lost world of the last ice age: a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth carcass that preserves muscle tissue the color of fresh meat and blood in liquid form, despite the –10 degrees Celsius temperatures in the Novosibirsk Islands, where Russian researchers discovered the beast.
May 29, 2013
Iron in Egyptian relics came from space
The 5,000-year-old iron bead might not look like much, but it hides a spectacular past: researchers have found that an ancient Egyptian trinket is made from a meteorite.
Galaxy formation: Cosmic dawn
Cosmological simulation of universe evolution
Source : Youtube
The Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a glimpse of the Universe's first, tumultuous era of galaxy formation.
For one sleepless week in early September 2009, Garth Illingworth and his team had the early Universe all to themselves. At NASA's request, Illingworth, Rychard Bouwens and Pascal Oesch had just spent the previous week staring into their computer screens at the University of California, Santa Cruz, scanning through hundreds of black-and-white portraits of faint galaxies recorded in a multi-day time exposure by a newly installed infrared camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA simply wanted the three astronomers to preview the images and make sure that the camera was working correctly, before the agency released the data more widely.
April 19, 2013
Exhibition "Leonard de Vinci, Projets, Dessins, Machines"
Exhibition entrance
Photo : NA
This exhibition takes place at Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie La Vilette Paris France, until August 18, 2013, in collaboration with the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Technologia Leonardo da Vinci of Milan (Italy), EADS, the Deutches Museum of Munich (Germany) et Dassault Systems. Hurry up to visit it ! It's really remarkable.
The Aircraft of the Future, bioinspiration applied to aeronautics
Credit : Universcience
The Aircraft of the Future :
Reduction in energy consumption and noise pollution are a great challenge and priority for modern aeronautics. Further improving efficiency and safety while reducing the ecological impact of airliners requires a technological revolution. Engineers at Airbus are turning to Nature for solutions such as those for A380. The Concept Plane is the project of a "bioinspired" jet.
The room dealing with transformation of movement
Photo : NA
Visit the exhibition's website here
March 31, 2013
Happy Easter !
Easter egg hunt
Photo : NA
March 20, 2013
Spring has come back.
Some flowers you can find in french countryside in early spring :
Wild cherry tree (Prunus Avium) in blossom
Photo : NA
Flowers of Japanese quince (Chaenomeles Japonica)
Photo : NA
Flowers of wild cherry tree (Prunus Avium)
Photo : NA
Forsythias
Photo : NA
Primroses (Primula Vulgaris)
Photo : NA
Daisies (Bellis Perennis)
Photo : NA
Daffodils (Narcissus Pseudonarcissus)
Photo : NA
March 13, 2013
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Photo : NASA
NASA: Yes, Mars could have hosted life
(CNN) -- Curiosity, humanity's most powerful rover to land on Mars, has made a startling discovery: Conditions that could have supported life once existed there.
"We have found a habitable environment that is so benign, and supportive of life, that probably if this water was around and you had been on the planet, you would have been able to drink it," John Grotzinger, Curiosity project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a Tuesday news conference.
March 12, 2013
400th anniversary of the birth of Andre Le Notre, "gardener" of King Louis XIV. Many events are organized in several french castles throughout the year.
Le Notre's gardens at Chantilly and Versailles
400 years birth le Notre, Versailles celebrates
Versailles will be celebrating in a grand way the 400th anniversary of the birth of architect and landscape designer Andre' Le Notre (1613-1700) with one year of performances, shows and with restoration work. Le Notre was a friend of Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, who contributed to the design and realization of the palace's gardens with their unprecedented geometries, woods and fountains, among the most famous and visited in the world.
March 6, 2013
High risk of avalanches in March. Be careful !
Extreme Skier saves his own life
February 28, 2013
A Naked-Eyes Comet in March 2013
Everything you need to know : Comet PANSTARRS in March 2013
They’ve been watching it already in the Southern Hemisphere. In March, Comet PANSTARRS should come into view for northern skywatchers.
There’s a lot of excitement about Comet ISON, which might become a very bright comet, visible across the globe, by the end of 2013. But, before that happens, a second comet is on track to become visible to the eye alone when it’s closest to the sun in March of 2013.
February 26, 2013
Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA SDO)
Video Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, SVS, GSFC, NASA; Music: Thunderbolt by Lars Leonhard
Coronal Rain on the Sun
Explanation: Does it rain on the Sun? Yes, although what falls is not water but extremely hot plasma. An example occurred in mid-July 2012 after an eruption on the Sun that produced both a Coronal Mass Ejection and a moderate solar flare. What was more unusual, however, was what happened next. Plasma in the nearby solar corona was imaged cooling and falling back, a phenomenon known as coronal rain.
Solar Dynamics Observatory : 3 years of operation
February 21, 2013
Hiking in the forest
Photo : NA
Hiking in nature increases creativity
Creativity in the Wild: Improving Creative Reasoning through Immersion in Natural Settings (Ruth A. Atchley and al, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA)
February 18, 2013
Beautiful celestial meeting between the Pleiades, Jupiter,
Aldebaran and the Moon in the constellation of Taurus
Observed from France at 20:12 TU
Photo : NA
February 17, 2013
Best photos and video of asteroid 2012 DA14 during its February 15 flyby
The asteroid appeared from Earth to be moving quickly in front of the stars as it passed safely within the moon’s distance from Earth on Friday, February 15.
A near-Earth asteroid swept safely past Earth on February 15, 2013, and astronomers in many parts of the world were ready with cameras and video equipment. At its closest to us, asteroid 2012 DA14 was within the orbit of the moon (which averages about a quarter million miles away), and closer than some high-orbiting communications satellites. Its closest point was about 17,200 miles (27,680 kilometers) away. The asteroid was not visible to the eye as it sped harmlessly past, but earthly cameras captured it, and millions watched online in real time.
February 14, 2013
Christmas 2013
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2013 !
Here are some videos I made in Paris during the Christmas holidays :
Boulevard Saint-Germain Paris France on December 29, 2012
Christmas Tree Place de la Concorde
Christmas Market at Champs Elysees
Champs Elysees Avenue on January 1, 2013
The Ferris Wheel of Paris
Happy New Year Mr Eiffel !
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