L’entropie

Au début des années 1990, un physicien australien du nom de Denis Evans mène une expérience qui va faire vaciller une idée vieille de plus d’un siècle.Depuis toujours, on enseigne que l’entropie — ce fameux désordre de l’univers — ne peut qu’augmenter. C’est la deuxième loi de la ...  Show more

C’est une histoire presque absurde… et pourtant parfaitement réelle. Une histoire qui, à elle seule, pourrait être sortie d’un roman de Kafka.Lorsque Franz Kafka meurt en 1924, à seulement 40 ans, il laisse derrière lui une grande quantité de manuscrits inachevés. Parmi eux, Le P ...  Show more

The Suez Canal was once one of the busiest global shipping routes – a third of the world's shipping containers normally pass through it. Since the Houthis began to attack passing ships last year, the volume of vessels going through has declined rapidly.The canal is run by the Egy ...  Show more

A 50-mile man-made waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the creation of the Panama Canal was arguably the greatest infrastructure project the world had ever seen. But its journey from concept to completion was anything but simple, as it failed repeatedly, and pass ...  Show more

How did Britain and France almost start World War 3 in 1956? Who was Anthony Eden and why did he hate Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser? Why was the Suez Canal so vital to European oil supplies in the 1950s? Anita and William are joined by the brilliant Alex Von Tunzelmann, auth ...  Show more

You know of the Panama Canal (we already talked about it in Season 1 if you didn't), but you probably had no idea that a second canal has been in plans for a very, very long time now - one that passes through Nicaragua (that's north of Panama).


But the ...