Allez les gars on perd pas le moral parce que même si l'année 2020 est vraiment pourrie jusqu'au bout il y a quelques bonnes nouvelles qui tentent modestement de rattraper le bordel. Le compte Instagram @WeeklyGraphicNews s'amuse à nous livrer les meilleurs nouvelles avec une illustration super canon signée ICSD, que vous pouvez également suivre sur le réseau @ICSD.
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L'écosse est le premier pays au monde à voter la gratuité des protections périodiques.
The Scottish Parliament passed a bill that will make pads and tampons free across the board, making Scotland the first country on the globe to end "period poverty". This is a huge victory for the civic groups that supported the bill, considering that nearly 10 percent of girls in Britain have been…
Les vers de cire mangent le plastique et vomissent de l'alcool.
A lab study conducted at Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada found that a group of 60 waxworms was able to devour more than 30 square centimeters of a plastic bag in less then a week. . It shows that waxworms, which normally live in beehives and eat wax, also feast on polyethylene. They owe this…
🏃Seattle residents will have more space to exercise and bike on as the city will permanently close 20 miles of streets to most vehicular traffic. The Stay Healthy Streets initiative started in April to temporarily provide space for residents to get out of the house and exercise while maintaining…
Les pangolins sont enfin retirés de la liste des ingrédients pour médicaments chinois.
Better late than never. Pangolins - the world's most trafficked endangered species - can now breathe a sigh of relief as they will no longer be included in Chinese Pharmacopoeia, the official compendium of traditional medical products that are widely used within China. __ The decision comes after…
L'infirmière Pamela Zeinoun a sauvé trois nouveaux nés et les a portés durant 5 kilomètres de marche après l'explosion de Beyrouth.
I couldn't think of protecting myself, because the babies were under my protection. I was okay, so I needed to help." Pamela Zeinoun, a nurse at Saint George Hospital in Beirut, was in charge of five babies suffering from various health issues who needed to be kept in incubators when the port…
La fédération de football brésilien a annoncé que les footballeuses toucheraient les mêmes salaires que les footballeurs.
Brazil's football governing body has announced that it's adopting an equal pay policy for both women's and men's football, becoming one of the first countries in the world to do so. "The CBF has equaled the prize money and allowances between men's and women's football, which means the women players…
Hello Pia, I’ve read your story in the papers. You sound like a badass. I am an artist from the UK and I’ve made some work about the migrant crisis, obviously I can’t keep the money. Could you use it to buy a new boat or something? Please let me know. Well done. Banksy.” This was the email that Pia…
A Washington, un homme a sauvegardé 4000 tonnes d'oignons et de patates pour les donner à des banques alimentaires.
George Ahearn, who grew up in the farming town of Othello, Washington, co-founded a non-profit after learning that Covid-19 was costing local farmers so much business that they were willing to destroy their crops. 🌱 His non-profit has since moved nearly 8 million pounds of produce from farms in…
L'Allemagne souhaite diminuer son utilisation de lumière la nuit pour protéger les insectes.
Germany is planning to ban floodlights from dusk for much of the year as part of its bid to fight a dramatic decline in insect populations. 🕶️ The country's environment ministry has drawn up a number of new measures to protect insects, ranging from partially outlawing spotlights to increased…
Après 3000 ans, le diable de Tasmanie fait son retour en Australie.
Tasmanian devils have been reintroduced into the wild in mainland Australia for the first time in 3,000 years. Conservation groups released 26 of the mammals into a large sanctuary in Barrington Tops, north of Sydney. It's thought that packs of dingoes helped eradicate them on the mainland. There…
Les cookies sont les premiers plats à avoir été cuisinés dans l'espace.
Astronauts from ISS baked the first cookies in a special zero-gravity oven, in a first-of-its-kind experiment to study cooking options for long-haul trips. The first cookie was undercooked, and the second took 75 minutes to bake and another 25 to cool, realeasing a fresh scent in the ISS. As a…
La Roumanie met en place une police animale pour lutter contre les maltraitances animalières.
Romania is setting up an ‘animal police’ to protect animals that are mistreated or in distress. The new police department will have structures in all counties and operate with 488 employees and 88 veterinarians. According to the draft emergency ordinance put up for public debate by the Ministry of…
Les enfants sont formidables (mais genre vraiment, pas genre Patrick Sabatier qui parle)
Au Kenya, un enfant de 9 ans a inventé une machine en bois pour se laver les mains et lutter ainsi contre la propagation du Covid.
I now have two machines and I want to make more." ___ Meet Stephen Wamukota, a nine-year-old boy from Kenya who invented a wooden hand-washing machine that uses foot pedals to avoid touching surfaces and curb the spread of coronavirus. One foot tips a bucket of water, and the other foot tips a…
Pour le rajout du mot "ouinje" dans le dictionnaire
Faire pousser du cannabis pour sa consommation personnelle sera désormais légal en Italie.
Italy's Supreme Court has decriminalized growing small batches of cannabis at home for private use. The decision adds Italy to the small number of countries where small-scale cultivation is allowed. 🇮🇹 That's one way to start the year :) . . @weeklygraphicnews
C'est pas spécialement une bonne nouvelle mais c'est marrant quand même
Il y a des tremblements de terre sur Mars et on les appelle des tremblements de Mars.
Since landing on Mars in November 2018, NASA's InSight lander recorded 450 seismic events, including 20 quakes with a magnitude of three to four. This came as a surprise for the NASA team, who concluded that Mars is a seismically active planet. Unlike Earthquakes, Marsquakes occur deeper beneath…
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