I found a bunch of old notable links (part one from January to March 2015) that I never had the chance to share with you. It’s quite a time-machine! For an historian, it’s fascinating: it’s like a slice of what was happening at that time or, at least, a slice of my interests then. I was reading more news in those days… I am also surprised how so few links went dead after so many years. (To save on coding time, the links will NOT open in a new window as usual).

So, here they are (in both french or english, slightly categorized, but in no particular order and minus the links that are dead or now irrelevant), after the jump…

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Books & culture

• Pourquoi les intellectuels ne croient pas en Dieu? (Slate.fr)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Selects the Eight Books Every Intelligent Person on the Planet Should Read (Brain Picking)
• Mark Zuckerberg Starts A Book Club, Becomes This Generation’s Oprah (TechCrunch)
• E-books Go Out of Fashion As Book Sales Revive (Time)
• L’Orient fantasmé de Benjamin-Constant (Le Devoir)
• Les cent meilleurs romans policiers français de tous les temps / Romans policiers japonais traduit en français (atwiki)
• These are the most desirable jobs in Britain [librarian is 2nd!] (Indy 100)
• Next Game of Thrones book The Winds of Winter won’t be out until 2016 (BBC) [it’s 2018 and it’s still not released!!!]
• Le mangaka Katsuhiro Otomo reçoit le Grand prix d’Angoulême 2015 (Livres Hebdo)
• Kazuo Ishiguro’s turn to fantasy (The Guardian)
• The Art of Satoshi Kon (ICv2)
• Kindle Unlimited expands to Canada for $9.99 (iMore)
• Google boss warns of ‘forgotten century’ with email and photos at risk (The Guardian)
• Europe rules e-books won’t get tax breaks like paper books (Engadget)
• Sir Terry Pratchett, renowned fantasy author, dies aged 66 (BBC)
• Angoulême: Palmarès Officiel 2015 (lien)
• Dans les pas de Jirô Taniguchi, L’homme qui marche (Youtube)

Entertainments & pop culture

• Top-Selling Manga in Japan in 2014 (ANN)
• Top-Selling Light Novels in Japan in 2014 by volume and by series (ANN)
• Filmmaker Claude Gagnon on the trail of Will James (Montreal Gazette)
• On the Will James Trail (link)
• John Barrowman reveals ‘Torchwood’ return plans? (CultBox)
• Target Giving Up on Canada (ICv2)
• ScarJo to Star in Ghost in the Shell (ICv2)
• Amazon’s New Series The Man In The High Castle Is Amazing (Gizmodo)
• A Chef of Nobunaga, Sunny, Inferno In Bottles Nominated for Angoulême’s Top Prize (ANN)
• The Man in the High Castle, Amazon pilot, review- ‘stylised and stylish’ (Telegraph)
• The Man in the High Castle: “Pilot” Review (IGN)
• Amazon to Produce Up to a Dozen Movies a Year (ICv2)
• Adult Graphic Novels Up 13% in the Book Channel in 2014 (ICv2)
• Angoulême au rythme du mangaka Jirô Taniguchi (Télérama.fr)
• Profession Mangaka (Dailymotion)
• Yoshihiro Tatsumi, father of the gekiga style of manga, dead at age 79 (CBR)
• Tears in rain? Why Blade Runner is timeless (The Guardian)
• Streaming Services the Likely Culprit, as Traditional TV Viewing Declines Over 12% in January (MacTrast)
• Mort du mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Le Monde)
• More than manga: what I learned from the human stories of Yoshihiro Tatsumi |(The Guardian)
• RIP Leonard Nimoy, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Terry Pratchett (ICv2)
• Manga Continued Turnaround in 2014 (ICv2)
• Live-Action ‘Astro Boy’ Movie Announced (ICv2)
• Harrison Ford Officially Returns to Blade Runner, New Director Named (The Moviefone Blog, BBC)
• Gekiga-Style Manga Pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi Passes Away (ANN)
• 700 films rares et gratuits disponibles ici et maintenant (Apar TV, lien)

Health & Environment

• What Vitamins to Take, What to Skip, and How to Know the Difference (Gizmodo)
• Pregnant women advised to limit exposure to receipts, plastic (Canada.com)
• Porridge could be key to a healthy life, Harvard research finds (Independent)
• iHealth Gateway makes it easier to monitor grandma’s diabetes (Cult of Mac)
• Health & HealthKit highlights from CES 2015 (iMore)
• Bluetooth toothbrushes take the boredom out of brushing (Cult of Mac)
• No excuses: Apps to get you in shape in no time (CNET)
• Living in the cloud of Alzheimer’s (Maclean’s)
• How iPhone health gadgets could change what ‘see your doctor’ means (Mashable)
• Even for the active, a long sit shortens life and erodes health (LA Times)
• 2014 Was the Hottest Year in Earth’s Recorded History (Gizmodo) [and then came 2015, and 2016, etc.]
• This Plant in Dubai Makes Half a Billion Gallons of Fresh Water a Day (Time)
• More hospitals are trying Apple HealthKit than Google Fit (The Verge)
• How would you change Apple’s Health app? (iMore)
• Étude: efficacité nulle du vaccin contre la grippe (Canoe)
• Apple’s iOS 8 HealthKit Already in Use at 14 of Top U.S Hospitals (MacTrast)
• Apple Watch Glucose Monitoring Support Expected at Launch (MacTrast)
• App reveals what corporations don’t want you to know (Vancouver Sun)

History & sciences

• Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars (Mars Daily)
• How Bread, Beer, And Soy Sauce Changed The Human Microbiome (Popular Science)
• History Of How Charlie Hebdo Became A Top Terrorist Target (Business Insider)
• ‘Sex toys’ dating back 28,000 years made from stone and dried camel dung (Daily Mail)
• When I Questioned the History of Muhammad (WSJ)
• Was Olympia buried in the Amphipolis mound? (news.com)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Answered ‘The Meaning Of Life’ (UpRoxx)
• More reasons why the Greek poet Homer may never have existed (The Washington Post)
• Lost Beagle Lander Found Seemingly Intact on Mars, Failure Cause Unknown (Gizmodo)
• Simon de Montfort: The turning point for democracy that gets overlooked (BBC)
• Nasser parle de son entretien avec les frères musulmans sur la question du voile (Youtube)
• Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science? (National Geographic)
• Stunning 2200-Year-Old Mosaics Discovered in Ancient Greek City (Twisted Sifter)
• Oldest Human Fossil Found, Redrawing Family Tree (National Geographic)
• CT Scan of 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Statue Reveals Mummified Monk Hidden Inside (Colossal)
• Islamic State statue-smashing in Iraq was ‘war crime’, UN says (BBC)
• Herculaneum scrolls unlocked using photon beams (BBC)
• Australia Uses the Motion of the Ocean to Generate Zero-Emission Electricity and Desalinate Water Simultaneously (Good)
• Les papyrus du beau-père de Jules César bientôt déchiffrés? (RFI) [On ne dit pas plutôt “papyri” au pluriel ?]
• 11 Colorful Phrases From Ancient Roman Graffiti (Mental Floss)

Humour

• Non Sequitur 2014/11/17
• Between Friends 2014/11/24

Local News

• Ratés du déneigement: une série de petits échecs (Canoe) [plus ça change, plus c’est pareil!]
• Pension deficit stands at $1.85 billion, city of Montreal says (Montreal Gazette)
• Le maire Coderre en faveur du prolongement de la ligne bleue en surface (Métro)
• Des réductions de services sont appréhendées [en pharmacies] (Le Devoir)
• 700 000 $ perdus dans les bibliothèques de Montréal [à cause d’amendes impayées!] (JDM)
• Un imam radical prêchera aux jeunes Montréalais (La Presse)
• Un chantier paralysé par les vestiges d’Hochelaga? (Le Devoir)
• Services essentiels- les syndicats étudient l’impact au Québec d’un jugement de la Cour suprême (Journal Métro)
• Québec a surévalué l’ampleur du déficit des régimes de retraite municipaux HuffPost)
• Ottawa fait volte-face après le tollé: l’observatoire du Mont Mégantic survivra (Le Devoir)
• Mariage forcé pour la Cinémathèque? (Le Devoir)
• Les fermiers des villes veulent une place au soleil (Le Devoir)
• Le déclin des syndicats accentue les inégalités (Le Devoir)
• La Loi sur les régimes municipaux en 8 points (Observatoire de la retraite)
• « On a brisé les contrats des travailleurs sous de fausses informations » – Stéphane Bédard (Radio-Canada)

Photography

• How to record video from your iPhone onto your Mac (iMore)
• How to bulk delete images from your iPhone (Macworld)
• Smartphone Astrophotography: How I photograph the Moon & planets with my phone (Canadian Astronomy)
• How to create GIFs of live events in seconds (The Next Web)
• How to Actually Take a Good iPhone Photo of the Moon (Appy Geek)
• Here’s how to take fantastic macro shots on your iPhone (iMore)
• Hands on with OS X’s new Photos app (Cult of Mac)
• Everything you need to know about Apple’s new Photos app for Mac (The Verge)

Politics, economy & society

• What Is Charlie Hebdo? The Cartoons that Made the French Paper Infamous (Gawker)
• Le mercredi où «on a tué Charlie Hebdo» (Le Devoir)
• La France visée en plein coeur (Le Devoir)
• Écrasé par l’infâme (Le Devoir)
• Dans leurs articles sur Charlie Hebdo, plusieurs médias anglais et américains censurent les dessins sur l’islam (Slate.fr)
• 12 morts à Charlie Hebdo- un suspect se serait rendu (Le Devoir)
• This Footage of Ukrainian Aftermath Is Why We Need Drone Journalism (Gizmodo)
• Obama’s State of the Union 2015: Full transcript & analysis (CNN, Politico)
• Le monde musulman en colère (Le Devoir)
• Net neutrality rules passed by US regulator (BBC) [and then cancelled by Trump in 2018!]

Tech stuff

• Worldlabel.com releases free Pages for Mac label templates (TUAW)
• Tip of the Day: Have Siri Read Text to You (iPhone Life)
• Smart home war heats up as Nest adds new partners (Cult of Mac)
• Nest thermostats can now talk to Philips Hue, third-party smart locks and more (iMore)
• Incipio’s new connected home products play nice with HomeKit (iMore)
• Incipio unveils new three new pieces of HomeKit-ready automation gear (9to5Mac)
• CES 2015: Misfit Debuts Bolt, The Smart Light Bulb (MacTrast)
• Belkin WeMo home automation line expands with family of new sensors (TUAW)
• Apple reportedly planning Canadian Apple Pay rollout as early as March (iMore, 9to5Mac, Mac Rumors)
• TipEasy App Allows Apple Pay Users to Send Payments to Anyone (MacTrast)
• Pointers: Location-aware Reminders (MacNN)
• How to add your Cree Connected bulb to a Hue hub (iMore)
• Fix Your iPhone’s Touch ID By Retraining It (Life Hacker)
• Cree Connected LED bulbs: Inexpensive, compatible home automation solution (TUAW)
• CES Recap: Home (and Pet) Monitoring! (iPhone Life)
• So long, and thanks for all the fish [TUAW folded into Engadget] (TUAW/Engadget)
• Mac Help: Creating a guest network (iMore)
• Keep an eye out for visitors with the DoorBird Video Doorbell (iMore)
• Google’s 160-pound robot dog will scare the bejesus out of you (Cult of Mac)
• Apple working on Sling-style Internet TV service for cord-cutters (Cult of Mac)
• 6 Free Weather Apps for iPad (Gadget Review)