Why put your tongue under a microscope?

Audio 48:30

150 funny expressions to bring back your science.

© Le Robert

By: Caroline Lachowsky

50 mins

Why are atoms sometimes hooked?

What is the squaring of the circle?

Can we really create a vacuum?

And why is everything relative?

Is it possible to put science into words and the words of science?

Welcome to our wavelength, in all the accents of the world, around the question: how to put the language under the microscope? 

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Delighted to find you at the cleat to make up for lost time in absolute terms while remaining square and even making sparks without committing any oddity, just to create space and light, to perhaps solve the squaring of the circle while developing our hooked atoms ... You find that I am looking for noon to 2 p.m. and you are not wrong because these are all these funny expressions, these

150 funny expressions to bring back his science

which are gathered for the first time in an astonishing dictionary of Robert, co-written by a fine team of linguists in close collaboration with our guest the philosopher and physicist Étienne Klein who loves nothing more than playing with words to bring back his science the most focused on time, vacuum or Einstein's gravitation to the greatest number!  

With :

  • Étienne Klein, philosopher and physicist for his book 

    150 funny expressions to bring back his science

    published by Le Robert.

Etienne Kelin's musical choice:

The Rolling Stones -

Time waits for no one

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