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12/06/2011 – Trinity option – Science
There are two reasons for this note: the upcoming elections to the RAS and proposals from the recent speech by Vera Mysina, Chairman of the Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the consolidation of the structure of the RAS and on the number of academicians and corresponding members.
On November 26, at 19:02 Moscow time, an Atlas V launch vehicle with the Mars Science Laboratory automatic research station launched from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome.
Pseudoscience has always accompanied science, and this situation is unlikely to ever change. Various varieties of pseudoscience, repeatedly exposed and ridiculed, are invariably revived in a renewed form.
Valentin Danilov’s “misdemeanor” was that he tried to buy another prisoner two packs of cigarettes.
On November 18, police pepper-sprayed protesting students at the University of California, Davis, and that same day the story became famous around the world.
In different countries and at different times, students have been and remain one of the most active social groups. Often this activity results in student protests.
The recent rallies and speeches at Moscow State University show that not all students are ready to put up with the arbitrariness of figures close to the leadership who arrogate to themselves the right to speak on behalf of the entire student body.
Pages of history"A-scientists can only be outflanked"
06.12.2011 / No. 93 / p. 5 / Natalia Demina / Genesis of Science / 4 commentsOur newspaper turned to science fiction writer Boris Natanovich Strugatsky with a request to talk about how the realities of modern science are perceived through the prism of the story “Monday Begins on Saturday.”