Tag: social life
The joy of pedaling for “augmented” seniors: “On my electric mountain bike, I have no age”
At 70, 80 years old, whether their health is perfect or somewhat declining, three times a week, they climb passes and cover kilometers. Their secret? Electric assistance, the engine of…
Is the cat man the new masculine ideal?
“Before going to bed, I sometimes watch cat videos on Instagram, with my cat”, a single male acquaintance recently confided to me. Amused, I commented on this confidence through an…
when the reservation turns into a nightmare
In February 2023, overcome by an irrepressible desire to visit the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Sophie Baron, resident of Ain, engineer and mother of three teenage girls,…
Bruce, the all-powerful science popularizer of YouTube
LCommon sense has long established the following ratio: a picture is worth a thousand words. An adage that seems even more true when we look at the illustrated science videos…
These companies which copy the “room service” of palaces to bring employees back to the office
Lhe new leitmotif of corporate life comes down to a simple imploration: “Come back, please!” » While teleworking has scattered the troops to the point of threatening this presumed source…
“An industry run by men and for men, but which relies on girls”
Ashley Mears, in Boston, Massachusetts. DISCOVERY Ashley Mears, professor of sociology at Boston University, publishes in France Very Important People. Money, fame and beauty: investigation into the heart of the…
“In the VIP area, the girls are cattle”
Arrival of the 40,000 euro bottle of champagne at the new Le Palais nightclub, in the Palais des Festivals, in Cannes, in August 2007. SIPA Parisian golden youth are out…
Is sleeping in front of the TV the new stage of awakening?
“The World After Us” (2023), by Sam Esmail. COURTESY NETFLIX PFor this end-of-year column, I had planned to tell you about exciting programs, but I must make a confession: I…
“Lots of false things are said about teenagers”
Marie Rose Moro at La Closerie des Lilas, September 5, 2023. SAMUEL KIRSZENBAUM FOR “THE WORLD” Marie Rose Moro does not arrive on Rocinante’s back, but on a bicycle. The…
“With feminist self-defense, the objective is to break women’s feeling of vulnerability”
Mathilde Blézat, in Maseille in 2022. MOHAMED BOUKRAIA Mathilde Blézat, is the author of For feminist self-defense (Editions of the last letter, 2022). She returns to this specific approach to…
in the village where garden gnomes are kings
Laurent Pradié, from the Umpeau festival committee, in Eure-et-Loir. FP HAS Umpeau (Eure-et-Loir), the festival committee has a crazy dream: to make this village of 400 inhabitants the world capital…
two days in a driving license points recovery course
Front of an establishment organizing driving license points recovery courses, in Paris, November 30, 2023. CHA GONZALEZ FOR “THE WORLD” The gaze plunges towards the ground, attaches to a fixed…