Recent discoveries in systems biology give rise to a new hope: that of trading performance (so precious in the eyes of the West) for robustness, this fundamental principle of life whose richness we will see. The Tempest by Giorgiono (circa 1508). This mysterious painting can be seen as a metaphor for protection, fragility, and also the resilience of life in an unstable world. Darwin's *On the Origin of Species* has often been misinterpreted (social Darwinism), a misconception still...

Kelly Kramer (editor-in-chief of "Arizona Highways") with Jim Harrison in Patagonia, Arizona 2012 About ten years after Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison published Dalva in 1988. With this choral, lyrical, and humanist novel, translated into 23 languages, the American author (who died three years ago) achieved cult status: Dalva is now a classic of contemporary literature. It is also, along with Little Big Man , the 1970 film by Arthur Penn, a masterpiece of the Native American...

On November 7, 1492, a flash of light pierced the Swiss sky: the first classified meteorite in the Western world crashed over Ensisheim, a small Alsatian town located 20 kilometers from Basel. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) , then a young painter and engraver apprenticed in the Swiss town, witnessed the fall of the stone, impressed like all the witnesses to the event (1). Interpreted as a celestial sign, a divine manifestation, the Ensisheim meteorite was greeted with optimism by the local...