Archive for weekend edition
race against COVID [mural]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Running, Travel with tags Africa, COVID-19, Kenya, mural, Nairobi, pandemic, The Guardian, weekend edition on March 7, 2021 by xi'an
M cover
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags cover, Donald Trump, Le Monde, M Magazine, scorched earth, US politics, weekend edition on January 17, 2021 by xi'an
ciao da Roma [jatp?]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags C'è un paese che coltiva l'armonia, Italia, Italy, jatp, Porta del Popolo, poster, Roma, via Flaminio, weekend edition on May 3, 2019 by xi'an
“À l’université, j’étais le matheux qui savait parler aux statisticiens.”
Posted in Books, pictures, University life with tags Cédric Villani, French elections, French parliement, interview, Le Monde, maths and stats, Paris-Match, weekend edition on February 19, 2018 by xi'an
This weekend edition of Le Monde had [most of] Cédric Villani as its cover story. Mostly about his new career as a representative of Orsay at the French Parliament. And a member of the presidential majority. But the weekend edition being the weekend edition, it cannot escape its glossy tendencies and rather than focussing on the political agenda and achievements of the député, including a radical restructuring of the maths curriculum in French high schools, or maybe even his position on the harsh stance of the Macron government on migrants and refugees, Le Monde spends most of the article on the extra-ordinary personality of Villani. Paris-Match-like. Which leads to quote as the one below, where I find myself at a loss on how to interpret this “ability to speak to statisticians”…! 
