Archives de septembre, 2006

Astana, the Dubai of the steppes -Astana, la Dubai des steppes.

President Nazarbayev decided, seven years ago, to build a new capital, , in the middle of the Kazakh plains. The city emerged in a while as a « megalopolis » where empty sky-scrapers set in a line and the dream comes true, the dream of a ghost and futurist city where « Dad », as he likes to be called, can show every symbol of his almighty willing.

Le pdt Nazarbayev a décidé il y a sept ans de construire une nouvelle capitale au milieu des steppes: . La ville a surgit en un temps record comme une « mégalopole » dans les plaines balayées par des vents incessants, une cité fantôme futuriste où s’étalent les symboles de la toute puissance de « Papa ».

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Looking for Laperouse

On March 15th, 1788, after two and a half years of navigation through many oceans, the expedition led by Jean-François Galaup, count of Lapérouse ended in a violent storm below the cliffs of the island of in the Solomon archipelago. In April, 2005, the biggest expedition ever organized to look for Lapérouse since Dumont Durville in 1827, landed on the island of . In the same spirit as the century of enlightenment, 2005 was a multidisciplinary expedition of scientists embarked aboard Jacques Cartier, a French naval vessel.

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Ebola: the bat’s track !

Has the reservoir for the killer virus finally been identified? , photographer and veterinarian, specialized in scientifical features, has followed the scientists crew in Gabon’s rainforests during their last bat capture…

In the bush, in order to do autopsies and to take samples from the  animals which may carry the terrible virus with an optimal protection, the researchers are dressed as cosmonauts. In no time, they install bushe labs and are trying to meet at best the safety’s conditions of a P4 (laboratory of maximum safety). See more…

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