Some thought experiment about the well known Ship of Theseus. It goes like this: imagine a ship leaving shore to go on adventures. Every day, the ship gets damaged and repaired with new material. One day it is a piece of the hull, another day, it is the sail, and so, and so. Eventually, all the elements of the ship have been changed. Is it still the same ship? One might say yes....
I was reading an article from Le Monde about the state of French research, especially the despair of French doctorates, and what it means. As you might have seen if you have read my bio, I am French, and I have a doctorate, although not from a French University but from EPFL in Switzerland. So I think it is important to write here what I think of the situation because it affects me directly....
Climate change is a mess. It's hotter in some places, colder in other, and in general, severe weather is intensifying with longer droughts, heavier rainfalls and stronger storms. This problem, caused mostly by our method of generation of energy relying on burning fuel and releasing carbon dioxide in the air has a few solutions, among them: the wind turbine to harvest wind energy and generate clean...