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Bruniquel: the oldest human sculpted cave ever found

A cave found in February 1990 in the South West of France seems to be the theatre of the oldest cave with a human shaped camp. Néandertal à Bruniquel by CNRS “It is from 2013 that a research team, with...

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PoWE! – Cream

What better than lazying with good music during your week end days?! I open this new rubric “PoWE!” (standing for “Playlist of your Week End) with “Cream”, considered as the first “super group”,...

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Wood but transparent, who’s interesting for?!

It seems that a University of Maryland lab (Department of Material Science and Engineering) found a new process to transform wood in a transparent material. To watch the presentation video, click here...

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PoWE! – Ella Fitzgerald

New week end, new episode for this new rubric, PoWE! – Playlist of your Week End!, with the marvellous, the genius, the glamourous, the incredible, the chief goddess of my personal pantheon: Ella...

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PoWE! – Maria Bethânia

PoWE! plays for you this week end Maria Bethânia. This marvelous great Brazilian singer started her career in the 1960’s and mixes poetry, protestation and daily life in her songs. She is also the...

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PoWE! – Mulatu Astatke

Mulatu Astatke is “the” Ethiopian musian who mixed jazz, Latin music and Ethipian traditionals. He is known as the creator of the “Ethio-jazz”.

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Illustrated parenting

We can see more and more illustrated blogs and social accounts about … well, everything actually! But here I wish to share those about parenting. I’m sure you already know Liz Climo, mother of Rory the...

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PoWE! – Miles Davis

I don’t know what to say about Miles Davis except that he is a god (yes, my personal Pantheon is as crowded as the Greek one) and recognised as such by many artists! Enjoy!

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The Floating Piers, Christo & Jeanne-Claude

This is the new performance of Christo, “specialist” of the long veil on the public space: artificial floating piers on the Italian Iseo Lake, covered by an orange veil. Really interestingly, these...

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Every noise at once

Every noise at onceis really impressive website: its aim is to map every single kind of music styles that exist. Wow! Impressive! Have fun while browsing!        

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How works a trumpet?

Did you ever wondered how works a trumpet?

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About gravity… no… Realtivity… hum no! Space time!

Well, I am not a scientist but nonetheless, I am really interested about! By navigating on futurism magazine, I ended up on this video that, if a little bit complicated to follow (man! why do you speak...

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Shapr3D

Here is an iPad application that can be a very helpful tool for architects and interior designers. Only one bad point: Shapr3D is only available for the Apple

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Painted electricity

This can be just one of the best “toys” (and interior/museums designer tool) to play with, amazed your friends (and yourself) and to cleverly solve electric things at home or work: a paint that...

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PoWE! Alice Russell

Let’s change of atmosphere and join the strength and impressive voice of Alice Russell! Alice Russell balance au 105 – le 6 juin 2013 by Fipradio

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Offline Augmented Reality

The Amsterdam public transports network offers to its passengers the possibility to play, in its trams coaches, with pedestrians. How? By two simple stickers (one on the window, the other in front of...

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Make streets yours again

This Indian initiative, The Ugly Indian, started in 2010 and keeping going on. The concept: as you respect only what you like, reappropriate streets by cleaning and making up nice together. “Look at...

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Use your roofs!

Here are some pictures from the very interesting The Guardian photo article about uses of buildings roofs in different cities through the word. How interesting! Roof of City Hall, Chicago (USA),...

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Paint an Abbey wall!

PAINT is a really interesting Public Engagement experience! This idea is to allow Fontevraud (France) abbey visitors to paint an architected but white wall. At the end, they can ask for the print of...

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Digital Heritage conferences

The Saturday 2nd and Monday 4th July 2016 took place conferences about Digital Heritage and Public Engagement at the University of Nottingham, by the Heritage & the Digital Research Priority Area...

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