La signature scientifique

Le latin médical: La constitution d'un langage scientifique

1610 and 1622. From them one can see how different their view of epidemic disease was from our own, and, in passing, they reveal their awareness of the appalling social and economic consequences if they announced the arrival of plague. Cipolla's doctors uncover a variety of diseases, influenza, malaria, typhus, smallpox, which they treat with a variety of therapies. They note the consequences o...

The digital signature dilemma Le dilemme de la signature numérique

The last ten years have seen an enormous amount of legal, regulatory, and technological activity aimed at designing a proper electronic equivalent to handwritten signatures. One such design, that of cryptology-based (or digital) signatures, has succeeded over other solutions to the point where, in certain legal systems, such as those of the Member States of the European Union, electronic signat...

Production Scientifique

Le Web 2.0 et les Musées des Sciences: Quel Accès à la Culture Scientifique?

In a context of increase in content and actors on the Internet, museum’s websites are publishing resources for diffusion of arts and sciences, but also for their promotion and for communication. The option to limit interactivity is taken to provide verified data, included in a slow temporality compared to the temporality of the Internet and more recently of the web 2.0, but this is made without...

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE Tax avoidance and the political appeal of progressivity

Empiriquement, on observe que la majorité des Etats a fait le choix d'un système d'imposition progressif. Pourtant, le fondement théorique de ce choix n'est pas évident. Si l'on interprète le système d'imposition appliquée comme le résultat d'un jeu entre deux partis politiques Downsiens, le fait que la majorité de la population soit relativement pauvre permet de conforter l'observation empiriq...