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For many of us, 2020 has been a disruptive year , both personally and professionally. However, the more what happens to us affects us, surprises us and touches us, the more we think it is unique , exceptional , special ; the more it takes up all the space in our lives; the more we lock ourselves in it and see nothing else. This year, more than others, it will be important to raise our heads and escape from this confinement created both by the exceptional situation and by our reaction to this situation. How to do it? An excellent...

Unfortunately, forced population migrations are not specific to the period we are living in. We can probably even say that it is a constant of History . Some of them have even been on a much larger scale than those we know today. Thus, in 1945, during the Potsdam Conference held near Berlin from July 17 to August 2, the leaders of the USSR ( Joseph Stalin), the United States (Harry Truman) and the United Kingdom (Winston Churchill then Clement Attlee) decided to expel the German populations of Eastern Europe to Germany and Austria. In total, nearly 15 million people...

His philosophy aims to achieve happiness . It is often confused with hedonism, which aims to achieve pleasure. He also considers that the physical world is made up of indivisible atoms and thinks that the same is true for the soul . This is Epicurus and the philosophy he developed is called Epicureanism . Rather than a philosophy advocating the pursuit of pleasure to excess, it instead recommends a balance , seeking actions that will produce the least pain. It prescribes a life of temperate joy , tranquility and self-sufficiency . This is a bit of an approach that is...

Observer status at the UN (United Nations) allows non-member states to attend most meetings and consult their documentation. Several states have had this status before becoming full members, such as Austria, Finland, Italy, Japan and, more recently, Switzerland. Today, only two countries have this status: the Vatican and Palestine . The reasons for this are of course different. If the Vatican does not wish to become a full member today, this is not the case for Palestine, which would like to become one but is unable to do so. Anwar Abu Eisheh does not start from geopolitical considerations in his...

This disease increases the risk of heart problems by 7 times . People who suffer from it are also 7 times more likely to have a traffic accident and see their risk of suffering from depression double. This disease affects 5 million French people but 80% of them are not aware of their condition and therefore do not seek treatment . This is sleep apnea syndrome . The symptoms are easily identifiable (snoring, morning fatigue, drowsiness, etc.) and treatments exist, even if they can sometimes seem a little complicated to implement . But it 's worth it ... The two...