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PressTV-Arctic glaciers melting faster than previously imagined: UN
▻http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/01/439805/UN-United-Nations-Environment-Program-Arctic-glaciers

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1. Earth’s two massive ice sheets are disappearing at a faster pace than scientists previously calculated. The United Nations Environment Program says global warming is almost certainly responsible for the decrease in the extent and thickness of the Arctic Sea ice.

2. Researchers at Edinburgh University in the UK have developed a new technology which is vastly superior to Wi-Fi in almost every way.

3. Archeologists have discovered rare remains of a dog-like dinosaur in the US. Around 100 million years ago, the plant-eating creature lived in a region called Appala-chia in what is today the eastern United States.

#arctique #groenland #climat

Li-fi 100 times faster than wi-fi

▻http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34942685

A new method of delivering data, which uses the visible spectrum rather than radio waves, has been tested in a working office.
Li-fi can deliver internet access 100 times faster than traditional wi-fi, offering speeds of up to 1Gbps (gigabit per second).
It requires a light source, such as a standard LED bulb, an internet connection and a photo detector.

[...]

Laboratory tests have shown theoretical speeds of up to 224Gbps.

[...]

The term li-fi was first coined by Prof Harald Haas from Edinburgh University, who demonstrated the technology at a Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in 2011.

#Li-fi #Lifi
#wireless

« WITH OR WITHOUT THE BROTHERS » un colloque à ne pas rater, aujourd’hui et demain à Sciences Po Paris.

▻http://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/evenements/#/?lang=fr&id=4225

Organisé par Laurent Bonnefoy, François Burgat et Stéphane Lacroix, il réunit des chercheur-e-s français, arabes, etc dont les travaux sont des références.

WITH OR WITHOUT THE BROTHERS. DOMESTIC, REGIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL TRENDS IN ISLAMISM (2013-2015)
du 29/10 | 09h30 au 30/10 | 18h00

Dans le cadre du projet ERC When Authoritarianism Fails in the Arab World

En partenariat avec l’IREMAM, l’IFPO, et l’Université d’Oslo


Thursday 29th of October, 2015

9:30-9:45 Opening address by Alain Dieckhoff, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

9:45-10:30 Keynote address by François Burgat, WAFAW, IREMAM
From Ghannouchi to al-Baghdadi: The ubiquitous diversity of the Islamic lexicon

Panel 1: Linking political exclusion to violence?

10:30-13:15

Chair: Loulouwa Al-Rachid, WAFAW, Sciences Po-CERI

Sari Hanafi, WAFAW, American University of Beirut
Transnational movement of Islamic reform: New configurations

Bjorn Olav Utvik, Oslo University
Myths of Ikhwan disaster: Anatomy of the 2011-1013 power struggle in Egypt

Amal-Fatiha Abbassi, IREMAM, Sciences Po Aix
The Muslim Brotherhood and political disengagement. The consequences of an authoritarian situation

11:45-12:00 Coffee break

Monica Marks, WAFAW, Oxford University
Survivalist club or dynamic movement? Generational politics in Ennahda today

Joas Wagemakers, Utrecht University
With or without the others: Consolidating divisions within the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (2013-2015)

Amel Boubekeur, SWP, Berlin
Algerian Islamists and Salafis after the Arab Spring: Eroding or reloading the regime?

Panel 2: A Resilient Muslim Brotherhood?

14:30-16:45

Chair: Stéphane Lacroix, WAFAW, CERI-Sciences Po

Rory McCarthy, Oxford University
When Islamists lose an election

Marc Lynch, George Washington University
Evolving transnational networks and media strategies of the Muslim Brotherhood

Marie Vannetzel, WAFAW, CURAPP
#R4bia: The dynamics of the pro-Mursi mobilizations in Turkey

Dilek Yankaya, WAFAW, IREMAM
A “transnational Islamic business network”? Rethinking the connections between Turkish, Egyptian and Tunisian “Islamic businessmen” after the Arab Springs

16:45-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-17:45 Open discussion on contemporary Muslim Brotherhood dynamics

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Friday 30th of October, 2015

Panel 3: The Iraqi/Syrian matrix of violence

9:30-11:30

Chair: Bjorn Olav Utvik, Oslo University

Loulouwa Al-Rachid, WAFAW, CERI-Sciences Po
The Disarray of Iraqi Sunnis

Truls Tonnesen, FFI, Oslo
The Iraqi origins of the “Islamic State”

Yahya Michot, Hartford Seminary
Ibn Taymiyya in ’Dabiq’

Thomas Pierret, Edinburgh University
Farewell to the vanguard: Syria’s Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement and wartime de-radicalisation

Tine Gade, Oslo University
Sunnism in Lebanon after the Syrian war

11:30-11:45 Coffee break

Panel 4: Al-Qaeda vs. the Islamic State

11:45-13:30
Chair: François Burgat, WAFAW, IREMAM

Hasan Abu Hanieh, Independent researcher
New Jihadism: From harassment to empowerment (In Arabic)

Brynjar Lia, Oslo University
The jihadi movement and rebel governance: A reassertion of a patriarchal order?

Stéphane Lacroix, WAFAW, CERI-Sciences Po
Saudi Arabia, the Brothers and the others: the ambiguities of a complex relationship

Abdulsalam al-Rubaidi, Al-Baidha University
Ansar al-Sharia in South Yemen: configuration, expansion and discourse (In Arabic)

Ismail Alexandrani, Independent researcher
Sinai with and without the Brothers: did it matter?

Panel 5: Muslim Brothers and their Islamist competitors

14:30-16:45
Chair: Sari Hanafi, WAFAW, American University of Beirut

Muhammad Abu Rumman, Jordanian University
Dilemmas in Salafi dynamics in the wake of the Arab democratic revolutions (In Arabic)

Stéphane Lacroix, WAFAW, CERI-Sciences Po
Being Salafi under Sisi: Examining the post-coup strategy of the al-Nour party

Ahmed Zaghlul, CEDEJ, Cairo
The nationalization of the religious sphere in Egypt (In Arabic)

Myriam Benraad, IREMAM
Iraqi Muslim Brothers: Between the Islamic State and a hard place

Nicolas Dot-Pouillard, WAFAW, IFPO
Hizbullah and Muslims Brothers: A political rupture or a contract renegotiation?

Laurent Bonnefoy, WAFAW, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS)
Islahis, Salafis, Huthis: reconfigurations of the Islamist field in war torn Yemen


16:45-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:00 Concluding remarks and discussion with François Burgat (WAFAW, IREMAM) and Bernard Rougier (Paris III University).

Conference in English and Arabic (with translation)

Responsables scientifiques: Laurent Bonnefoy (Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS), Stéphane Lacroix (Sciences Po-CERI),François Burgat (IREMAM), Bjorn Olav Utvik (Oslo University)

Sciences Po-CERI: 56, rue Jacob 75006 Paris (salle de conférences)

INSCRIPTION OBLIGATOIRE auprès de nathalie.tenenbaum@sciencespo.fr

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Peter Higgs: I wouldn’t be productive enough for today’s academic system
▻http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system

Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, believes no university would employ him in today’s academic system because he would not be considered “productive” enough.

The emeritus professor at Edinburgh University (...) published fewer than 10 papers after his groundbreaking work, which identified the mechanism by which subatomic material acquires mass, was published in 1964.

He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today’s academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers. He said: “It’s difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964.”

Edinburgh University ends funding for US drone component maker
▻http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/sep/29/edinburgh-university-ends-funding-drone

A leading UK university is ending its £1.2m investment in a defence company that makes components for lethal US drones because it says the business is not “socially responsible”.

The University of Edinburgh has bowed to pressure from students and campaign groups and is withdrawing funding from Ultra Electronics. The company, headquartered at Greenford in Middlesex, makes navigation controls for the US fleet of Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles.

#drones