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Déclenchement
Je cherchais, en vain, ma pièce d’identité pour prouver que j’étais invité à cette conférence. Tous mes amis étaient déjà joyeusement entrés et moi, je restais la dernière personne au monde, détenu par ce gardien, qui aimait rouler ses r de « protocole de sécurité. » Il attendait patiemment pendant que je fouillais mon sac. J’essayais de […]
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Bruxelles-La-Chapelle
En promenant mon chien, je vois souvent un homme assis sur un banc rouillé et avec un journal plié dans sa main à la gare Bruxelles La Chapelle. Il ne lit pas le journal mais plutôt il le regarde de temps à l’autre, comme pour vérifier, qu’il l’a toujours. Quand un train passe, on dirait […]
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My Baby Steps In The Wonderful World Of DNA
I took a Y-DNA test and found out about my ancestry. My haplogroup is represented in Western Siberia and Finland but I was surprised to see red dots also in Turkey and in the Caucasus. The dots on the map represent the earliest known forefathers of other people who took the test and with whom […]
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A One-Minute-City
Have you ever taken part in a community design process in some way? As far as I remember, I did such things in the seventies every time there was a need to embellish the neighbourhood together. The reward for doing this was usually a soft drink of red or yellow colour, someties maybe even some […]
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Between Public And Private
The difference between the desert and the city of Nouakchott is striking, but on a second thought there is something about the city that marks the visitor with strangeness and resemblance of the desert, like vague echoes from just outside the city where the vast space of sand and quietness hits you on the face. […]
Jarmo Pikkujämsä 