Columns - Polytechnique Insights

Are cognitive biases compatible with the scientific method?

Patrice Georget, Lecturer in Psychosociology at the University School of Management IAE Caen

Quantum computers: how do they work?

Landry Bretheau, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, Quantum Physicist and Researcher in the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics (PMC*)

Diving into the minds of musicians to uncover new learning strategies

Pierre Legrain, CNRS Research Director in perception and memory at Institut Pasteur

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Plastic waste: the need to act quickly before we are submerged

Isabelle Méjean, Head of economics department at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Best young French economist 2020, Julien Martin, professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Quebec in Montréal (ESG-UQAM)

New Zealand: the first tobacco-free generation?

Karine Gallopel-Morvan, Professor in Social Marketing at EHESP and member of the Haut conseil de santé publique

“Microplastic pollution in the ocean contributes to antibiotic resistance”

Maria Belen Sathicq, Post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Water Research of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)

“Our desire for truthfulness makes us suspicious of institutions”

Etienne Klein, Philosopher of science and Professor of Physics at CEA

“Controlled inflation will help to boost growth”

Jean-Baptiste Michau, Professor of Economics at École Polytechnique - CREST (IP Paris)

Can we know if our universe is a simulation?

David Kipping, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University

Why the European Central Bank wants to digitize the euro

Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn, Director General of Banque de France (BDF)