Tag: France

25 Years Later, Rwanda Grapples With Legacy of Genocide and Questions of Blame

As world leaders have expressed regret over failing to stop the massacre of as many as one million people in Rwanda, its president, Paul Kagame, has entrenched his power and punished dissent. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/world/africa/rwanda-genocide-25-years.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

France Wants This New Algorithmically Designed Keyboard to Save the French Language

Enfin! France’s most popular keyboard layout is getting an algorithmically designed and long-awaited facelift. The new layout fills in gaps left by AZERTY, the country’s most widely used typing layout for more than a century, that lacked several essential symbols and led to bad grammar habits. For example, an absent accent mark could be the… Continue reading France Wants This New Algorithmically Designed Keyboard to Save the French Language

Mystery of The Garfield Telephones Appearing in France Solved After 35 Years

In the last decade or so, popular culture seems to have caught up with what many of us have known for a long time: there’s something altogether not right about Garfield. Maybe it’s because the comic strip was created completely devoid of any substance whatsoever that looking too long at Garfield is like opening a… Continue reading Mystery of The Garfield Telephones Appearing in France Solved After 35 Years