La Lettre Calsoï
La Lettre Calsoï
Readings from the world of innovation: the breakthroughs, the stories and the lessons that illuminate the present. By Jean-Christophe Simon. These articles are English versions of a newsletter published in French.
13 July 2026Three breakthroughs, one atom, or the Oxford chemist reinventing fluorine
While the world debates artificial intelligence, a Belgian chemist based in Oxford is dismantling, one after another, the old certainties of an industry born a hundred and fifty years ago.
Read the article → 7 July 2026From notebook and pencil to xG, or football's silent revolution
While everyone celebrated talent and instinct, a handful of contrarians started counting. What they found redrew how matches are won.
Read the article → 21 June 2026The "literal videos", or the clip that sang what it showed
In 2008, a production assistant had an idea so simple no one had dared it: rewrite a music video's lyrics so they describe, word for word, what you see on screen.
Read the article → 4 June 2026The Bayeux Tapestry, or seventy metres of innovation
Before printing, before cinema, before the comic strip, a few embroiderers invented a way to tell a story. Nine centuries later, it still stands.
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