Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management is a wide-ranging and expert analysis of the ethics of the intentional management of solar radiation. This book will be a useful tool for policy-makers, a provocation for ethicists, and an eye-opening analysis for both the scientist and the general reader with interest in climate change.

Nicole Cadène a découvert Marie-Edmée par hasard, en lisant des fragments de ses écrits dans l’ouvrage justement encensé de Philippe Lejeune, Le moi des demoiselles. Chercheure associée à l’université d’Aix-Marseille, elle a soutenu une thèse sur l’image de Marie Stuart et cherche depuis une dizaine d’années à retracer l’étonnant parcours de Marie-Edmée Pau, une jeune fille qui se rêvait garçon et dont la courte existence est ponctuée de luttes entre des aspirations professionnelles, artistiq...

ObjectiveThis study aimed to analyse how stereotypes towards older people moderate the relationship between burnout and quality of life of professionals working in nursing homes.MethodA total of 312 professionals were asked to complete questionnaires of burnout Maslach Burnout Inventory quality of Life and aging stereotypes. The moderation effects were tested using linear regression models.ResultsA negative association was observed between burnout and QoL. It was also found a statistically significant moderator effect of the total score of stereotypes and the health stereotypes, (...) besides a marginally statistically significant moderator effect for motivational stereotypes. The moderator effects were different for people with low and high negative stereotypes. QoL was more affected under conditions of high burnout, in which people with more negative stereotypes tended to present higher QoL than people with lower negative stereotypes.ConclusionHighly burned-out professionals in nursing homes may avoid their negative feelings projecting them to residents through stereotypes, as a way of coping with burnout and increasing their QoL. However, this mechanism is an “aggressive reaction” and may have negative effects for both the older adult and the professional. The comprehension of these variables is essential for developing adequate intervention programs. (shrink)

C’est une approche d’historienne que propose Maialen Berasategui. Son étude porte moins sur l’œuvre de Ségur que sur le terreau qui l’a nourrie. Elle met l’accent pour l’essentiel sur l’importance du groupe familial et sur les positions catholiques de chacun, dans ces années où se développe le culte marial, où Renan publie La Vie de Jésus (1863), où la papauté se voit menacée. Singulier destin de cette jeune fille de l’aristocratie russe qui, sous l’influence de sa mère, se convertit (...) à l’adol... (shrink)

In 2010, pitcher Armando Galarraga was denied a perfect game when umpire Jim Joyce called Jason Donald safe at first with two outs in the bottom of the 9th. In the numerous media discussions that followed, Joyce’s ‘blown’ call was commonly referred to as ‘mistaken’, ‘wrong’, or otherwise erroneous. However, this use of language makes some not uncontroversial ontological assumptions. It claims that the fact that a runner is safe or out has nothing to do with the ruling of (...) the umpire himself, but rather with some state of the universe that does not depend on the umpire for its existence. In this paper, I recast the problem as a version of Plato’s Euthyphro Dilemma and argue that the view implied by the above assertions is actually misguided. Instead, I hope to show that an alternative view – what I call ‘restricted umpire voluntarism’ – is actually more in line with the spirit of the game of baseball and is not as counterintuitive as it may appear.. (shrink)