Un tour de balai au-dessus de Salem

Culture
Column|Magalie Masson

En cette semaine précédant l’Halloween, je vous propose de découvrir la petite ville portuaire et mythique de Salem, située à quelques kilomètres au nord de la ville de Boston, dans l’état américain du Massachusetts.

La coutume veut que les touristes y arrivent déguisés, par le Commuter Rail, le train de banlieue à l’allure old school, depuis Boston. Ainsi, on arrive directement sur la ligne rouge expressément tracée au sol pour faciliter notre visite de la ville des sorcières…

Tout au long du parcours prédéterminé, les visiteurs ont l’opportunité de s’arrêter dans plusieurs musées, dans les cimetières et dans de multiples maisons hantées, tout en découvrant statues et monuments effrayants ainsi que les boutiques et maisonnées décorées. L’histoire des sorcières de Salem est visible partout dans la ville.

L’histoire des Sorcières de Salem…

Ce récit regroupe de véritables faits qui ont ébranlé l’actuelle ville de Danvers, en février 1692. À l’époque, plusieurs jeunes filles de la région présentaient des signes étranges de possession. Les citoyens, apeurés, commencèrent à dénoncer quiconque qui avait un comportement douteux. Les nombreux accusés subirent des interrogatoires dans la ville de Salem, avant d’être placés en prison ou condamnés à mort par pendaison, pour cause de sorcellerie. En mai 1693, le gouverneur royal William Phips cessa toute condamnation, déclarant qu’il était mieux de relâcher une dizaine de sorcières au lieu de condamner à mort une personne innocente. Aujourd’hui, plusieurs théories tentent de trouver une explication à cette histoire de sorcellerie; la plus connue étant celle reconnaissant l’existence d’une période d’hystérie générale engendrée par la religion.

Six visites cultes 

1- Salem Witch Museum : Ce musée, le plus visité de la ville, reconstitue l’historique des événements survenus en 1692 (récits, procès et pendaisons), nous informe sur le pouvoir des plantes ainsi que sur les pratiques de sorcellerie d’autrefois. Ce monument de style gothique est une bonne introduction pour ceux qui ne sont pas familiers avec l’histoire des sorcières de Salem.

2- The Witch House : Datant du 17^ième siècle, cette maison nous dépeint le portait du mode de vie des premiers colons par son architecture, ses objets d’antan et ses documents historiques. La demeure appartenait autrefois à un juge prénommé Jonathan Corvin, qui en 1692, condamna des citoyens pour pratique de sorcellerie.

3- The House of the Seven Gabbles : «La maison aux sept pignons» est le titre d’un roman de style gothique écrit par Nathaniel Hawthorne en 1851. Ce dernier, natif de Salem fut inspiré par cette maison qui appartenait à sa cousine Susanna Ingersoll. Cette demeure est considérée comme étant la plus vieille maison en bois du pays et fait désormais office de musée.

4- Le port : Fondée en 1626 par des pêcheurs, la ville de Salem fut, jusqu’au développement du port de Boston, la ville la plus importante de la côte dû à son marché avec la Chine.

5 -Peabody Essex Museum : Ce musée, dont les collections seraient parmi les plus belles du pays,  retrace l’histoire maritime des États-Unis. On y retrouve d’importantes pièces de collections artistiques et culturelles asiatiques datant de l’époque où Salem pratiquait le trafic maritime avec ce continent.

6 - Old Burying Point Cemetery : Ce cimetière est celui ou l’on retrouve la majorité des personnages de l’histoire des sorcières de Salem.

Bien que plusieurs boutiques soient aujourd’hui touristiques, certaines d’entre elles sont plus raffinées et permettent aux sorciers modernes de venir s’approvisionner en matériel de sorcellerie.

Cette destination phare pour la fête de l’Halloween célèbre pendant tout le mois d’octobre! Alors, qu’est ce qu’on attend?

Magalie is a first-year Commerce student who takes interest in culture, environmental and international issues and DIY projects.

Notice: City of Brossard Public Consultation

Democracy in Action|Public Notice

The City of Brossard is proposing to reconstruct the old golf club in the C sector and put a public parc in its place. The city's administration will be holding a public consultation at the Centre Socioculturel (7905, San Fransisco) from 7pm to 9pm on Wednesday, November 4th.

For more information:
450-923-6304, ext. 6346
brossard.ca

It All Depends On Your Priorities

Life
Column|Annie Berger

Spending less instead of gaining more can help improve student lifestyle

Wish you were a millionaire so you could travel the world, live in a villa and go out shopping or clubbing every day?

As a job-less student, I am often asked how I can manage to live while having no income for a medium time period. I do not work, not because I was unable to find a job, but because I chose not to work to focus on studies for some time. Needless to say that I have worked intensely for the last three years.

Yes, but your parents pay everything for you, some may say. Not that much, actually.

In the student world, there is a misleading thought that having a highly paid job equals being wealthy as a whole. May a student earn $300 a week, 50$ or nothing at all, financial results may end up being strangely similar in the long-run.  

How much do you spend?

It seems some factors are hidden when it comes to considering the effectiveness of producing income. I mean by this that one must not forget to consider what the net income is:  the income minus the expenses. Is it actually efficient to pay for a car and its gas – having a 10 km distance driven twice- for a 4 hour shift? Think about it. One spends part of his or her income to earn it. Thus, hypothetically a 44$ income of a regular 4 hour detail-store-Friday-evening-shift ends up in reality being a 40$ gain. Alas, there is an illusion of making a certain amount of money while not considering the expenses it involves.

If one goes out twice a week, let’s say spending on average 30$ each time, this results in 60$ less in one’s bank account weekly. Not to talk about the increasingly high prices of going out: taxi rides, alcohol, food and tips - matched with shows and festivals. There are so many appealing reasons to spend for students, it is difficult to resist. I do not wish to discourage such activities, I want to point out that spending is something that can be controlled. Of course I do not bash on spending for a necessary OPUS card – or a car, depending on where you live- or basic living expenses, but for the rest, there are so many things seen as socially mandatory that are indeed choices.

Choices

Using simple math combined with being wise and thoughtful, finding the best paying job might not be the only solution to increase your financial backups. Even if it may seem disastrously boring, trying to reduce your expenses with smarter options could make a huge difference. Why not take part in free events in the city instead of paying for event tickets? Buying alcohol at the SAQ instead of bars, having friends over at your place instead of going out? Bringing homemade coffee in a mug instead of buying it each morning? Making your own lunch instead of buying it? Small steps that added up together, could allow one to reduce work hours- and, consequently, to have more free time- or gradually have more money aside.

This may seem similar to environmental awareness campaigns, always trying to make people change habits in order to increase recycling or personal health for instance. On an economic perspective this time, the same concept applies: there are small choices everyone can take to gradually modify habits leading to a better lifestyle. Why not use this strategy by changing spending habits, not be obligated to work more, and keep more money in reserve?

Over all, it all depends on choices one makes about his or her lifestyle. What goes before what? As an example, not spending for a cellphone contract (yes, it is still possible) ‘‘saves’’ me at least 450$ each year for which I later on spend in traveling. Fashion hobbies can also eat up budgets- that’s all part of making choices.

In the long-run, gaining a lot of money does not mean having a lot aside. The ability for students to eventually assure an apartment, buy a car or travel cannot be taken for granted. Try listing your earnings and your expenses, then see what your real earnings are. One could gain an impressive wage but actually be less financially well off to leave two weeks this summer than someone barely working, but also daily barely spending. The illusion of being wealthy tricks student communities.

Annie is a second-year World Studies student and Editor-in-Chief of this blog and newspaper.

Bill C-51: Why Liberals Have Much To Do

Politics
Opinion|Laurent Crépeau

If you follow current events, you’ve probably heard of Bill C-51, or the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015 as it’s sometimes called. There’s been some debate about it throughout this campaign. Journalists did manage to get some answers from party leaders when they didn’t try to gently, yet ubiquitously shift the scope of the question they were asked to include painfully tedious reminders that their platform is the best ever proposed to support the middle class. And while all parties have expressed a clear position on this issue, it remains one of the most underrated questions of this election campaign, which has just ended.

In case you need to freshen your memory, Bill C-51 was a 2015 omnibus bill passed in June 2015 that came as a response to the two successive terrorist attacks in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and in Ottawa, last year. In a nutshell, its main purpose was to implement new security measures to protect Canadian citizens as well as granting more freedom in the sharing of personal information among Government of Canada agencies as well as increasing the Secret Services’ capacity to act in certain situations.

Now that Harper is no longer in power, Liberals can make big changes to Canada’s anti-terrorism strategy. From the legal perspective, they definitely should. C-51 is anything but a well-thought piece of legislation. Too many bugs have found their way into this law and keeping it in its current state is not only foolish, but possibly very dangerous, also.

A main problem with this bill is that it introduced legal terms that in addition to being unprecedented, are so broad that their effect is almost counter-productive. Instead of clarifying aspects of the law, it complicates things with overly broad concepts and definitions. The pillar of the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act (Part 1 of C-51), “activity that undermines the security of Canada” is poorly defined. Its definition leaves gray areas and opens the door to arbitrary suppression of protest and dissent.

Written as such, the law could be used to excessive ends. Considering a new definition could facilitate interpretation of this law. After all, let us point out that this was a recurrent point of contention brought up by experts during public hearings on the matter.

This isn’t the only problem with this law however. Another major issue is the lack of parliamentary oversight and independent review. Without proper examination of how the CSIS and RCMP decide to act, the door for abuse becomes wide open. One of the main intents of C-51 was to provide the aforementioned agencies with the capacity to act quicker in order to protect Canadian citizens. The only problem is that by allowing greater clearance the way it did, this law made it so that the fundamental freedoms of others might be put into jeopardy.

What many legal experts including Ken Roach and Craig Forcese, two professors of Law at the University of Toronto and University of Ottawa, respectively, fear is that the current legislation would make it so that information would not be sufficiently analysed before being used to take action. The cases examined by the Arar and Iacobucci commissions illustrate my point. In both cases, Canadian citizens were subject to extraordinary renditions– that is, the government sponsored abduction and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another – by foreign governments and subsequently tortured as a result of the Government of Canada using and sharing unreliable information that was later proved to be flawed. Unfortunately, the current version of the law implemented through C-51 does not provide enough safety mechanisms to avoid such injustice from again taking place. Fortunately, however, Liberals have expressed their vague intention to work on that part of the law. Hopefully steps will be taken in the right direction.

Sunset clauses were also mentioned and would constitute good additions to this law. This would imply that renewing draconian provisions of the bill would need parliamentary approval every three years or so in order for them to remain in effect.

What Liberals said they would do isn’t enough, however. The law also poses important legal challenges in terms of redress and accountability. Insufficient means for redress and gray areas of the law make it fastidious for anyone to achieve any sort of compensation in the event of a false positive. Notably, in accordance to the Secure Air Travel Act (Part 2 of C-51) individuals prevented from boarding an airplane are not entitled to know whether they were put on a no-fly list and furthermore, for what reasons they were put on it.

And while Canadian citizens should be anxious regarding such suppression of their legal rights, the most worrying part of this bill is undoubtedly section 21.1 of the Canadian Safety Intelligence Service Act (Part 4 of C-51), which allows secret services to infringe on fundamental rights of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms if they have obtained a court warrant to do so. Here, the issue is not simply about breaking Charter Rights – there should be legal ways to do so in certain situations, though that’s another issue – the issue is about imposing additional duties on a judge (and a very difficult one at that) when time is of the essence. It is likely that rather than ensuring equal judgement under the law, C-51 will lead to inconsistencies and fundamental rights are too meaningful an issue to be judged without proper consideration.

Bill C-51 has too many flaws to remain as it is. Liberals claim they want to fix this law to some extent, yet what they propose is not sufficient. Adding more oversight and sunset clauses does help solving some problems, but not all problems, and some of these are grave to the point that they absolutely shouldn’t be ignored.

It is a shame that politicians never truly engaged the issue during the campaign. Bill C-51 is clearly one of the most important questions that the Harper years have left us with. Now that Liberals are in power, C-51 is definitely here to stay. What, hopefully, will done about this bill will be very interesting to follow, however, as major reforms are in order.

Laurent Crépeau is a second-year Liberal Arts student who takes interest in History, Politics, International Relations, Law and Philosophy.

The Middle East, Explained (Part One)

Politics
Analysis|David Di Giulio

With the current conflicts in the Middle East, numerous people question why exactly this region of the world is so volatile. The answer isn’t a simple one; with 18 conflicts in the past 15 years there are numerous etiological factors at work. The Middle East, as we know it in modern times, is actually the result of partitioning of the defunct Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire existed up until 1922, after defeat in World War One. While this event was nearly a century ago, it’s important to consider because the Allied Powers were tasked with dividing up the now defunct and incredibly vast empire into smaller states. Britain and France were the two countries tasked with the complex assignment of creating the borders for the new Middle East.

Unfortunately, they completely butchered their task due to imperialistic values and a greed for oil. Britain and France had very ethnocentric views on what a country should and shouldn't be. That’s why they allowed themselves, without consulting the locals, to decide how the new countries should be organized. Also, they sought to have regions under their own influence and divided up countries accordingly. The importance of oil sure does sound familiar doesn’t it? One modern country which has undergone decades of instability and violence following that partition is Iraq. Iraq, then known as Mesopotamia, was a country made with complete disregard for tribal and ethnic separation. The citizens of this new country had a new identity thrust upon themselves whom which numerous didn’t want. It’s a lot more understandable after knowing this to understand why so many Iraqi soldiers flee battle. Why would you risk your life defending a country you don’t want, for people you don’t identify with. Citizens of the Middle East have a lesser sense of nationalism not out of a lack of empathy, but as a result of being forced to exist as part of a new county which disregards thousands of years of separation.

Imagine if Canada was forcibly merged with the United States by France. Then, an uprising starts in Minnesota and as a member of the army, which you only joined to escape poverty, are sent to suppress. Your morale and willingness to fight would be incredibly low considering that this enemy force is probably more dedicated and suited to their environment. In fact, you would probably sympathize with these rebels more than your own army.

While it is very hard to admit, Iraq was more stable as a country with Saddam Hussein in charge. Many people view him as a necessary evil whom brought relative peace and security to an ethnically divided country, crushing dissidence with brutal force. His elite Revolutionary Guard became infamous throughout the country and instilled fear in those seeking to oppose him. However, we mustn't overlook the numerous human rights violations perpetrated by Iraq on its own citizens under his dictatorship including genocides, the use of chemical weapons, torture, executions of civilians, along with numerous other war crimes.

The improper partition of the Ottoman Empire is one of many reasons for the instability currently existing in the Middle East. Numerous others, such as improperly managed military interventions, widespread corruption, and the rise of Islamist extremist groups all have destabilized a very important region of the world. In my second part in the series of The Middle East, Explained I will be going into depth on the Syrian Civil War and why it has escalated to its current level.

David is a second-year Criminology student who takes interest in sports, global issues and the news.

Le Futur Devenu Réalité

Culture
Column|Magalie Masson

En 1989, le célèbre personnage Martin «Marty» McFly du film américain de science-fiction Back to The Future II, voyageait dans le futur à l’aide de son bolide intemporel De Lorean, s’arrêtant à la date futuriste du 21 octobre 2015.

Robert Zemeckis, le réalisateur de la trilogie à succès Back to the Future nous offrait  alors un avant-goût fantaisiste de ce que serait la vie après l’an 2000, sous le regard des années 80.

Le scénario vs la réalité

Back to the Future II avait vu juste concernant la popularité des écrans géants, la création des lunettes de réalité virtuelle ainsi que la prédominance des systèmes de réseaux et de connexions dans notre société, tel le Skype que nous connaissons aujourd’hui.

Toutefois, la vision futuriste du second film de la trilogie fut elle sans doute très avant-gardiste concernant la commercialisation des souliers de course qui se lacent par eux-mêmes et celle des voitures et planches à roulettes volantes. De plus, nous n’avons jamais assisté au film Jaws 19 et n’avons pas encore fabriqué de réacteur automobile ayant la capacité de transformer les déchets en énergie, comme l’aurait fait la voiture de Marty.

Une prédiction à vérifier

La suite du premier film Retour vers le futur avait aussi prévu une fabuleuse victoire au club de baseball de Chicago en série mondiale. Aujourd’hui en 2015, nous constatons que les Cubs de Chicago de la Ligue majeure du baseball ne sont qu’à un pas de la grande finale…

Pour souligner cette journée, devenue célèbre grâce à l’imaginaire du producteur Robert Zemeckis, des projections spéciales des trois films ont eu lieu mercredi le 21 octobre ainsi que la fin de semaine du 24 et 25 octobre dans plusieurs salles de cinéma au Canada et aux États-Unis.

Un classique à revisionner!

Magalie is a first-year Commerce student who takes interest in culture, environmental and international issues and DIY projects.

Win, Win, and Win!

Sports
Column|Haris Shahid

 

''We can’t expect our Habs to keep playing on this pace,
 it’s only a matter of time before they lose a game.''

 

7 and 0. Who could have imagined? As a huge Habs fan, even I couldn’t have imagined this in my wildest dreams. Even after 107 years of hockey, the most storied franchise in National Hockey League history keeps making history.

Did you know that legendary Montreal Canadiens teams with the likes of Maurice Richard, Jean Beliveau, Henri Richard, Guy Lafleur and Patrick Roy never won 4 straight games at the start of a season? Somehow, this “good” Canadiens team with no “number one center” has won 7 straight games. The 2015-2016 Habs were supposed to be what they have been for the last decade, a good team. However, this team led by captain Max Pacioretty have come out of the gate with a historic debut to the season. As of writing this article, the Canadiens are 7-0-0 and they might have a chance of matching the league of 10 straight wins to start a season set by the 1993-1994 Toronto Maple Leafs and the 2006-2007 Buffalo Sabres.

Let’s try to analyse how Le Bleu, Blanc et Rouge have been able to remain undefeated through 7 games.

Carey Price:

The most obvious answer is Price’s out of this world goaltending. He was amazing last season and many people doubted Price’s ability to replicate his performance. Up to this point, he looks better than he did last year. He has been so good that the Canadiens have allowed a league low of seven goals through seven games and an NHL best penalty kill at 91.7%.

Four great lines:

The Canadiens greatest problem last season was scoring goals. They scored 214 goals, which ranked them at 20^th in the league and the lowest amongst teams who made the playoffs. This season, Michel Therrien’s team has already scored 23 goals, good enough for number one in the NHL.

Depth:

The team is very deep. Meaning, they have many players who are skilled enough to play many different situations and who can compete with the other team’s superstars. The defensive core is also much better as Jeff Petry has fit in perfectly into the team. His tremendous play has relieved some stress from Alexei Emelin, who can now go back to playing the style he is best at: hard hitting hockey. The emergence of Nathan Beaulieu as a reliable number six defenceman allows coach Michel Therrien to play three very good defensive pairs. Furthermore, former first round third overall pick, Alex Galchenyuk has begun playing like a true number one center, as his defensive play has his improved defensive play with his incredible raw skill make him an offensive threat.  

Keep the foot on the gas pedal:

The Habs aren’t giving up on plays and on games anymore. They play the full 60 minutes and do not rely as much on Carey Price as they used too. All three forwards back check and help out their defencemen while the defencemen also move up the ice with the forwards in order to give offensive support.    

Carey Price:

He is just so good and just such a x-factor that I had to mention him twice! We can’t expect our Habs to keep playing on this pace, it’s only a matter of time before they lose a game. Let’s just hope this keeps going as long as possible. If the Montreal Canadiens keep performing at this level, the Stanley Cup is a real possibility!

GO HABS GO!!!!

Haris is a first-year Pure and Applied Sciences student who obviously loves the Habs.

The Champlain Word is Back!

Editorial|Annie Berger & Patrick Hayes

As second-year students and co-presidents, we are glad to launch The 2015-2016 Champlain Word, an online student newspaper underlining Champlain College’s student issues. Inactive since 2010, The Champlain Word aims to give it a new breath in an online interactive version.

In collaboration with Student Services, the clubs and the Champlain Student Association, The Champlain Word will encourage students to express themselves through writing about current issues, sports, culture and diverse topics of public interest.

Be assured that all content in the articles published are strictly limited to the author's view and are unrelated to any institution or group in the College.

Par souci d’ouverture, ce nouveau journal en ligne encourage les étudiant(e)s à écrire en français ou en anglais sur des thèmes qui leur tienne à cœur.

Prêt a vous lancer? C’est une parfait opportunité pour expérimenter le monde du journalisme!

Wish to contribute? It is opened to all!

Bonne lecture!

Join the Facebook group: The Champlain Word 2015-2016
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Contact: Annie Berger, Patrick Hayes, Co-presidents
Pass by the CSA office to discuss it with us!

 

 

 

La Science du Mois

Science
Column|Jérémie Gaudet

 

Découvertes récentes, récompenses, faits scientifiques : faisons le point sur les actualités liées à la science qui comptent parmi les plus importantes du dernier mois.

La théorie de la relativité centenaire

La théorie qui a chamboulé notre interprétation de l’Univers et de ses phénomènes, la théorie générale de la relativité, souffle cette année sa centième bougie sans qu’aucune expérience scientifique dans le but de la vérifier n’ait pu lui faire ressortir une défaillance.

C’est le 25 novembre 1915 qu’Albert Einstein a présenté pour la première fois sa théorie, et ce, devant l’Académie prussienne des sciences, avant que ne soit publié son article au mois de mars de l’année suivante.

La théorie, qui figure parmi les plus bouleversantes que compte l’histoire, illustre que l’espace et le temps sont des phénomènes qui changent constamment, sous une dynamique d’évolution. Il s’agit d’un bond énorme depuis les lois de Newton datant du XVII^e siècle, étant donné que la relativité générale remplace la notion de forces par la courbure de l’espace-temps.

De l’eau sur Mars !

C’est le 28 septembre dernier qu’a été confirmée par la NASA la présence d’eau liquide à la surface de la planète rouge. Cette découverte renverse l’idée jusque-là envisagée par plusieurs selon laquelle Mars est une planète aride, sèche et hostile et constitue une des preuves les plus solides de la présence d’eau sur cet astre depuis le début de l’exploration martienne.

Grâce à une nouvelle technique employant un spectromètre sur la sonde Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, un groupe de scientifiques a pu réaliser des analyses chimiques de la surface martienne. Il a été découvert que sur cette dernière se trouvent des écoulements contenant des cristaux ne se formant qu’en présence d’eau liquide.

C’est donc dire que Mars contiendrait des ruissellements de saumure, une solution fortement concentrée en sels permettant la présence d’eau malgré des températures assez froides. Ces eaux se manifesteraient au niveau de son équateur seulement en périodes saisonnières plus chaudes, soit au-dessus de -23°C.

En 2011, des astrophysiciens avaient déjà observé des traces temporaires à la surface de cette planète. Dès lors, des hypothèses avaient été émises selon lesquelles ces lignes encochant les falaises de ladite planète seraient en réalité de l’eau.

Quant à la provenance de ce liquide, nulle certitude n’est présentement avancée, bien que soient envisagées les possibilités de glacier souterrain, d’aquifère salin, voire de condensation de l’atmosphère de la planète, aussi fine soit-elle.

Cette découverte devient très importante en ce qui a trait aux futures missions planifiées sur la planète rouge. En effet, ces dernières pourront notamment envoyer des robots mieux adaptés aux conditions de l’environnement. Il sera également plus facile pour d’éventuelles missions de colonisation d’exploiter l’eau sous forme liquide plutôt que solide.

D’ailleurs, des Canadiens toujours en lice pour le projet Mars One, qui a pour but d’établir une colonie sur Mars d’ici 2027, se sont dits réjouis de la présence de cette eau, en plus d’avoir été déjà touchés par la sortie du film The Martian.

Les Nobel de science 2015

Le début du mois d’octobre a été marqué par l’annonce des lauréats des prix Nobel 2015. Coup d’oeil sur les récipiendaires et leur contribution scientifique.

En physique, le prestigieux prix a été remis au Canadien Arthur B. McDonald ainsi qu’au scientifique japonais Takaaki Kajita pour avoir découvert les oscillations des neutrinos, soit des particules élémentaires ayant une masse, mais ne pouvant être subdivisées. De plus, ils ont contribué à prouver que ces particules changent d’identité. La découverte de cette propriété est très importante dans le domaine, comme elle permet de les intégrer aux théories de la physique.

Le Nobel de la chimie a, quant à lui, été remis à Paul Modrich, Tomas Lindhal, et Aziz Sancar, respectivement américain, suédois et turco-américain. Ces chimistes sont récompensés pour leurs travaux sur la réparation de l’ADN : ils ont étudié et cartographié un mécanisme d’un groupe de molécules qui surveille et répare constamment notre ADN afin de l’empêcher de muter dangereusement, ce qui peut créer des cancers.

Au niveau de la physiologie et de la médecine, la palme a été décernée conjointement à la Chinoise Youyou Tu, pour sa découverte d’une nouvelle médication contre la malaria, ainsi qu’au Japonais Satoshi Omura et à l’Irlandais William Campbell, pour leur découverte d’un traitement contre des infections causées par des vers parasitiques.

Jérémie is a first-year Health Sciences student who takes interest in news, politics, environmental problems, health and science.