Talks
Jack Guichard gives talks for the general public, associations, schools, museums and local authorities: an hour that sends you home more curious than you came.
For the general public
- Artificial intelligence: its history, how it works, today’s applications and questions about the future.
- The history of digital technology, from the book “C’est pas sorcier : l’histoire du numérique”.
- Challenge your brain: how our brain works, and how to develop its abilities, through short tests and entertaining games.
- Astonishing inventions: an hour of laughter and smiles with inventions that are strange, useless to everyone except their inventors, failed or simply outlandish.
- Science… and magic, for audiences from 7 to 97: magic tricks and their scientific explanation, to understand the phenomena that govern our everyday lives.
- The secret life of bees: the secrets of their organisation and astonishing behaviour.
- Curious about science: surprising facts and experiments that make you want to understand everyday phenomena — and that anyone can repeat at home to amaze their friends.
- The Talmont coast through the ages: from the days when dinosaurs roamed the region to the recent changes of the Veillon dune.
- Amazing insect societies — bees, ants and termites.
On science education
- Countering the rise of the irrational by developing science education: why children and citizens need science to understand the world and to act on questions that affect our health and the future of the planet.
- Encouraging scientific careers, a major challenge for Europe.
- Inquiry-based science teaching from primary school onwards, and observation as a way to understand.
- The place of new technologies in tomorrow’s education.
- Schools and science museums: what each does best, and how they complement each other.
- How to design a successful science exhibition for young visitors — from the experience of the Palais de la découverte, the Exploradôme and the Cité des enfants.