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• Clinton/Obama : race and gender clashes ?
  

  Although both Clinton and Obama claim that they don’t want to turn their campaign into a clash over race or gender, escalated charges and countercharges between the two camps came these last days. So what can we think about the declaration of Obama who explained that "the American public is (...)

• Obesity : just a question of weight ?
  

  Obesity is an individual clinical condition which is evaluated in absolute terms by measuring BMI (body mass index). However it is increasingly regarded as a growing public health problem : excessive body weight has been shown to predispose to various diseases, particularly cardiovascular (...)

• Being homosexual today ?
  

  The Gay Pride in Boston has just finished, and others gay parades will come very soon in Las Vegas, Paris, etc, and in Madrid with the Europride. If these days are often happy events for the homosexual communities, is the everyday-life so easy for homosexual people ? What is about the (...)

• Smoking or not smoking, that is the question... of liberty
  

  One can try to convince people who chose to smoke tobacco and chose to accept the health risk to change, but public health hasn’t realized yet that one may not force them to change. The trouble is that smoking doesn’t just kill smokers but also other people with second hand smoke. The solution (...)

• Nanotechnology, science of future
  

  Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. The properties of manufactured products depend on how those atoms are arranged. Whereas nanotechnology is set to change our lives, nanotechnology and nanoethics are also a contentious field : if future (...)

• Impacts and cost of climate change
  

  A report by economist Sir Nicholas Stern suggests that global warming could shrink the global economy by 20%. The consequences of global warming would be disastrous, whereas taking action now would cost just 1% of global gross domestic product. The review coincides with the release of « An (...)

• Islam, Woman and Veil
  

  Few weeks ago, Egypt’s culture minister Farouk Hosni caused a furor by saying that wearing the veil was a backward and negative trend. Muslim Brotherhood have chastised the minister for his criticism of the Islamic veil, whereas 230 intellectuals and artists jumped to the defence of Hosni, (...)

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