Doctorant. A partir de septembre 2011 : professeur adjoint invité au Centre d’études du Moyen-Orient à l’Université américaine du Caire.
Kadhafi possédait à Tripoli une garçonnière munie d’un local d’avortement
►http://www.lematin.ch/actu/le-repaire-sordide-de-kadhafi
Dans un sous-sol secret découvert à Tripoli, Kadhafi aurait violé des étudiantes. Et des avortements forcés auraient eu lieu.
Researchers’ Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail From Fortune 500 | Threat Level | Wired.com
►http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/doppelganger-domains
Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed e-mail over six months.
The intercepted correspondence included employee usernames and passwords, sensitive security information about the configuration of corporate network architecture that would be useful to hackers, affidavits and other documents related to litigation in which the companies were embroiled, and trade secrets, such as contracts for business transactions.
“Twenty gigs of data is a lot of data in six months of really doing nothing,” said researcher Peter Kim from the Godai Group. “And nobody knows this is happening.”
Syrie : un officier supérieur parle
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/carnet/2011-09-07-Syrie-un-officier-superieur-parle
La décision dans l’armée (comme dans la Sûreté) revient toujours aux officiers alaouites, les sunnites n’ont pas de poids. Un lieutenant alaouite pistonné par la Sûreté peut exercer un pouvoir complet (kamel al-sulta) dans son secteur et avoir plus d’importance que son supérieur sunnite.
Dan Ariely: The truth about cheating - Forbes India -
►http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/dan-ariely-the-truth-about-cheating_460009.html
In our experiments, we find that a lot of people cheat by just a little bit. In standard economics, cheating is supposedly a straight cost-benefit analysis. People look at the odds of getting caught and the associated punishment, and then cheat when it makes sense to do so. However, in our experiments we find that people do not act strictly according to this model; they cheat only to the extent that they can continue to feel good about themselves and rationalise their actions. You can call it a Personal Fudge Factor, a limit up to which human beings comfortably cheat without feeling bad about it.
The Secret Language Code: Scientific American
►http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-secret-language-code
As I pondered these findings, I started looking at how people used pronouns in other texts — blogs, emails, speeches, class writing assignments, and natural conversation. Remarkably, how people used pronouns was correlated with almost everything I studied. For example, use of first-person singular pronouns (I, me, my) was consistently related to gender, age, social class, honesty, status, personality, and much more. Although the findings were often robust, people in daily life were unable to pick them up when reading or listening to others. It was almost as if there was a secret world of pronouns that existed outside our awareness.
In Dee Nile: Confirming long-held suspicion, NYTimes doesn’t actually care what things in Arabic actually say
►http://indeenile.blogspot.com/2011/07/confirming-long-held-suspicion-nytimes.html
So now it turns out that they don’t actually care to make reasonable associations between Arabic photographs and English subtitles.
La science du sourire...
Lip Service : The Science of Smiles | Brain Pickings
►http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/08/30/lip-service-the-science-of-smiles
Lip Service: The Science of Smiles
by Maria Popova
What crow’s feet have to do with authenticity and why you don’t remember your first smile.
Years ago, I did an undergraduate thesis on nonverbal communication and facial expression, a large portion of which revolved around the Duchenne smile — a set of anatomical markers that differentiate an authentic smile from a feigned one. The science of smiles is, of course, far complex than the mere fake vs. real dichotomy — the universal expression of positive disposition lives on a rich spectrum of micro-expressions and nuances. That’s exactly what Marianne LaFrance explores in Lip Service: Smiles in Life, Death, Trust, Lies, Work, Memory, Sex, and Politics — a fascinating new book drawing on the author’s research at Yale and Boston College, alongside a wide array of cross-disciplinary studies from psychology, anthropology, biology, medicine and computer science, to reveal how smiles impact our inter-personal dynamics and our life experience as social beings.
Baptiste Coulmont » Sous sa véritable identité
►http://coulmont.com/blog/2011/08/31/sous-sa-veritable-identite
Des sites comme facebook ou google+ insistent ou ont insisté pour que leurs utilisateurs s’identifient sous leur “véritable prénom”... Ces sites ne sont pas les seules institutions à exiger ainsi une et une seule “identité”... Il y a loin de la loi à la pratique, et des désirs de google aux usages de l’internet : conférer une identité aux individus n’a jamais été simple. Depuis 1794, diverses parades ont été inventées par les « citoyens » pour s’assurer une marge de manœuvre face à l’identification étatique, et par les agents de l’État pour assurer une identification suffisante.
Benjamin Geer, « Un homme chez nous : Martyre et charisme dans l’Égypte de Nasser », Altermed 4, Editions Non Lieu, juin 2011.
►http://www.scribd.com/doc/62662374/Benjamin-Geer-Un-homme-chez-nous-Martyre-et-charisme-dans-l-Egypte-de-Nasser
►http://www.editionsnonlieu.fr/Altermed-4
Le martyre pour la patrie, c’est le thème du célèbre film égyptien Un homme chez nous de Henri Barakât, réalisé en 1961 sous la dictature de Gamal Abdel Nasser et tiré d’un roman de Ihsân ‘Abd al-Quddûs, un écrivain-journaliste-militant très populaire à l’époque. Ce concept, que des intellectuels comme ‘Abd al-Quddûs ont conçu et diffusé, a joué un rôle décisif dans la carrière du dictateur charismatique.
The war in Libya: No way out for the colonel | The Economist
►http://www.economist.com/node/21526358
a tipping point leading to the eventual collapse of Muammar Qaddafi’s embattled regime looks near
Tu seras ingénieure ma fille ! - Techniques de lIngénieur
►http://www.techniques-ingenieur.fr/actualite/environnement-securite-energie-thematique_191/tu-seras-ingenieure-ma-fille-article_63987
Pourquoi lorsque les filles se jugent très bonnes en mathématiques, seules 6 sur 10 choisissent de préparer un bac S, alors que dans le même cas, 8 garçons sur 10 optent pour cette même filière (source : Ministère de l’Education nationale, 2010) ? Pourquoi alors que 40 % des élèves dans les lycées sont des jeunes filles, seul 20 % d’entre elles s’orientent vers les métiers scientifiques et techniques
Attention : géniale collection de chansons arabes des années 30 aux années 50, toutes téléchargeables en MP3.
VINTAGE ARABIC POP MUSIC - FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS
►http://music.cdbpdx.com/ArabicMusic
I recently acquired a group of over 50 old 78rpm records with 1930’s-1950’s Arabic Pop and Swing music. Below are photos of the old record labels and all the songs recorded in MP3 format. Just click on the label photo to download the song. The recordings are about 3MG each, so if you have a 56k modem like I do, it might take some time to listen to all the songs. If you want the complete collection of Arabic music from my archive, I can send you a CD with about 100 songs in MP3 format plus photos of all the old record labels.
Et si tu préfères les écouter avec l’interface de Youtube, tu peux : le gars a monté une chaîne carrément épatante :
►http://www.youtube.com/user/VintageArabicMusic
Écoute-moi ça si c’est pas le bonheur :
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLKTcpD7kEs
Ending the famine in Somalia - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
►http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/201181794837756557.html
The leading cause of the famine is the absence of a functioning state in Somalia. The current drought has affected other states such as Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia. Although communities there are vulnerable, none of these countries face the same level of starvation taking place in stateless Somalia.
Overcoming Bias : Leading Isn’t About Info
►http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/08/leaders-arent-about-info.html
Group members rated the most narcissistic leaders as most effective. But … the groups led by the greatest egotists chose the worse candidate for the job. … “The narcissistic leaders … inhibited the communication because of self-centeredness and authoritarianism.” … Good leaders facilitate communication by asking questions and summarizing the conversation—something narcissists are too self-involved to do.
Child poverty rate hits 20 percent in US as families struggle ►http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0817/Report-Child-poverty-rate-hits-20-percent-in-US-as-families-struggle?cmpi
Land of the Free, Home of the Poor - YouTube
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnQwTS-K6jI&feature=youtu.be
Ou on découvre que les américains imaginent qu’ ils vivent en Suède alors qu’en réalité ils vivent en Inde ....
#inégalité #capitalisme #partage des richesses #perception
Thousands of old photos of Lebanon and the Middle East
via @monachollet
►http://www.thefouaddebbascollection.com
http://213.42.27.189/FCDC/Catalog%20Lebanon/Postcards%20Album%20No%207%201910%201930/IMG_2950.JPG
Video survey: Racism rampant among Israeli youth | The Electronic Intifada
►http://electronicintifada.net/content/video-survey-racism-rampant-among-israeli-youth/10286
One of the most disturbing trends that we noticed was the strong correlation between age and anti-Arab sentiment. The majority of Israeli teenagers that we spoke to expressed unabashed and open racism towards Arabs. Statements like “I hate them,” or “they should all be killed” were common in this age group.
Le congrès de l’AFS en direct : vendredi 8 juillet 2011 — pierremerckle.fr
►http://pierremerckle.fr/2011/07/le-congres-de-lafs-en-direct-vendredi-8-juillet-2011
Compte rendu d’une intéressante table-ronde sur l’internationalisation de la sociologie et la standardisation concommitante des formats d’articles.