Comment les premiers humains sont-ils arrivés...

Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la vie intellectuelle française est dominée par deux figures majeures : Jean-Paul Sartre et Raymond Aron. Amis dans leur jeunesse, ils deviennent progressivement les symboles de deux visions du monde profondément opposées.Tout commence ...  Show more

Derrière l’image d’un régime brutal et militarisé, l’Allemagne nazie a aussi développé une politique sociale étonnamment ambitieuse… dont l’un des outils les plus spectaculaires fut le tourisme de masse. Au cœur de ce dispositif : le programme “Kraft durch Freude”, littéralement ...  Show more

Among all the continents of Earth, Antarctica remains both the most inhospitable and the most mysterious. Today the only humans on the landmass are researchers and their support staff, charged with studying climate change, the local ecosystem and the unique creatures that call th ...  Show more

Among all the continents of Earth, Antarctica remains both the most inhospitable and the most mysterious. Today the only humans on the landmass are researchers and their support staff, charged with studying climate change, the local ecosystem and the unique creatures that call ...

Many brave sailors arrived in North and South America long before Columbus, suggesting that trans-oceanic voyages could be accomplished centuries before his voyage. Some think that the Atlantic was crossed as far back as the Bronze Age. While written records of such voyages are o ...  Show more

Roughly 40,000 years ago, Ice Age Britain was undergoing a transformation. 

The first modern humans, Homo sapiens, were arriving and beginning to settle in the British Isles. Their evolutionary predecessors, the Neanderthals, were on their way to extinc ...