When is it legal to sell your wife?
Constance, from the Lycée Ampère, Lyon, invites you to 18th century Britain to discover the phenomenon of "wife selling" or "wife auctions" as documented in Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge".
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Fashion : a means to rebel? Or to conform?
Marylou Jonvaux & Marine Descamps-Bonnefoy of the Lycée Ampére, Lyon, ask where current hipster fashion trends come from and whether they are an invitation to rebel or to conform.
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Hollywood in the seventies and eighties: the Spielberg era
In order to understand Hollywood's late twentieth century history, two students set out to look at Hollywood's second Golden Age: the 1970s and 1980s, otherwise put, the age of Spielberg and the blockbuster.
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‘You’ve got to find what you love’.
Louis Champavier and Lou Dubreuil present their homage to the late Steve Jobs We are Louis and Lou, we are at the Lycée Ampère...
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What makes an image “iconic”?
Dr. Martin Kemp sets out to explain what makes an image 'iconic'.
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We know when you’re lying
Soledad from the Lycée Ampère in Lyon, France, tells us about the new emotion detector that can see when you're lying
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Scientists can record your thoughts
Be afraid! Scientists can now record your thoughts and dreams as video. This is not science fiction: it already exists!
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Philosophy in schools
British schools do not teach philosophy. Maybe that is about to change.
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French pop : English language
In the last three years there has been a rise in the number of French artists choosing to sing in English, despite quotas requiring at least 40% of music played on radio stations to be in French. It means English-language artists automatically compete with international acts for airplay.
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Books are dead
If you needed any more proof that the age of books is over, take a look at these alarming style changes at Ikea: the furniture manufacturer’s iconic BILLY bookcase is becoming deeper. Why? Because Ikea is noticing that customers no longer buy them for books.
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Collaborations between artists and scientists
Science and art are often considered opposites – so what happens when top practitioners in each field collaborate? The results, finds Stuart Jeffries, can be seismic.
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