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Is there anything after death? What is the meaning of life? Are we just a bag of atoms? The scientist Sabine Hossenfelder, born in Frankfurt (Germany) 48 years ago, is convinced that if there is a branch of science capable of finding answers to humanity’s existential questions, it is physics. Specialized in theoretical physics and quantum gravity, Hossenfelder combines her research work with science communication (she is the creator of the YouTube channel Science without the gobbledygook). Her latest book, Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions (published in English in 2022, and out in Spanish this year)...

Sabine chariot rewrites history'Exceptional' find proves independence of ancient city (ANSA) - Rome, May 12 - An ancient king's war chariot found in a tomb near Rome has helped rewrite the history of the Romans and their Sabine rivals . "This chariot is an exceptional find," said archaeologist Paola Santoro. "It shows that the city of Ereteum remained independent long after the Sixth Century BC." "In other Sabine cities like Custumerium, conquered by the Romans, the custom of putting regal objects in king's tombs had died out by that time". "We can say that Eretum kept its independence until the...

France's young contrarian A 22-year-old leads the revolt against strike-addled culture Matt Welch National Post Saturday, October 25, 2003 Most French people devote their summers to quintessentially Gallic pursuits: celebrating Bastille Day, using up some of their minimum five-week vacation time and going on the occasional strike. But Sabine Herold, to put it mildly, is not your typical French person. Herold, the 22-year-old leader of Liberté, j'écris ton nom (Freedom, I write your name), has in the past few months emerged as the popular and highly photogenic leader of -- zut! -- a burgeoning pro-market, pro-American counterculture in France. Compared...

Sabine Herold is hoping to save France from itself. This 21-year-old student has burst onto the Paris scene calling herself a libertarian and a conservative--it doesn't hurt her cause that she is extremely pretty (those eyelashes!) and sophisticated. In the middle of the Iraq war, she and some friends demonstrated outside the American embassy in support of President Bush. In her opinion, the French are anti-American out of injured pride that France is no longer the dominant nation it once was. Even more courageously, she has stood on the steps of the city hall to deliver an impassioned speech against...

PARIS (Reuters) - Nationwide strikes and demonstrations over a pensions overhaul descended into a riot outside the French parliament on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin presented the reform bill to lawmakers. Police guarding access to the National Assembly lower house of parliament used water cannon and tear gas to disperse an assault by some 100 rioters. Later, around 350 people stormed the National Opera, interrupting a performance of Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte." Some 60 people were arrested, police said. Earlier, tens of thousands marched through Paris and other cities calling for unions to have a say in any reform...

HAILED as the new Joan of Arc on a crusade to stop France’s powerful unions holding the silent majority hostage over pension reform, Sabine Herold, 21, a politics student, has become an instant heroine to those who are fed up with seeing their country crippled by seemingly endless strikes. Shouting into a microphone to loud applause, Ms Herold delivered a stirring message to the tens of thousands of followers who gathered in the Place du Chatelet in the centre of Paris at the weekend, to hear her speak on behalf of her association, Liberté, j’écris ton nom. "How numerous we...

Unions humiliated over pension bill as French tire of strikesBy Philip Delves Broughton, in Paris(Filed: 18/06/2003) France's unions are facing their greatest humiliation in more than 70 years this week as Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the prime minister, looks set to triumph in his plans to reform the creaking pension scheme.The first of 24 clauses in M Raffarin's bill have been passed in parliament and the government hopes to move speedily in the days to come. Fresh strikes have been called for tomorrow, but M Raffarin has reached the verge of the summer holidays without conceding, while the unions are losing support...

France's exhaustion with its unions has found its voice in a 21-year-old student, Sabine Herold, who is challenging the silent majority to revolt against the strikes crippling her country ... In the middle of the Iraq war, she and her friends demonstrated outside the American embassy in support of military action, a bold step considering the overwhelming opposition to the war in France. "There is a systemic opposition to America in France," she said yesterday.