Alexander Genis: Opening the second part of the “American hour”, Marina Efimova will present our listeners a book with an extravagant name: “Invisible Gorilla”. Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. “The Invisible Gorilla and Other Ways OUR INTUITUIONS DECEIVE US” Christopher Cabris and Daniel Simons. “The invisible gorilla, or the story of how our sensations are deceiving us.” Marina Efimova: Authors of the book, psychologists Cabris and Simons, conducted experience with Gorilla in 1999.

Alexander Genis: The wealth of America is her brains, not necessarily American. It has long been able to have intellectual creams of the whole world come to free America, and Nobel prizes obediently follow them. This constant influx of minds into the New World is so important that Thomas Friedman, the Columnist “New York Times”, suggested that every owner of a scientific degree, wherever he lives, give a “green card” - a residence permit in the United States.

For 20 pounds, a broker from the London City can easily feel like a farmer. With the light hand of the British, agrotourism is gaining popularity in the world - a way to spend a vacation in rural areas, helping farms on farms in exchange for housing and food. The young married couple of brokers of London City Nina and Makuffy have been holding a vacation on a farm in the picturesque County Devonshire in the south-west of England for the third year.

The European Union does not exclude that Israel can weaken the blockade of the gas sector. According to the Associated Press, citing diplomatic sources, it is possible to weaken the blockade regime at the border crossings of the cornie and the ceremal-shawl, which are now used only for the supply of humanitarian goods. Officially, this information is not confirmed. Israel yesterday announced the creation of a commission to investigate the incident on May 31 off the coast of Gaza.

Alexander Genis: Against the backdrop of screaming international news from Iran and the ecological crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, a restrained note about the collapsed marriage of vice president Ala Gora, it seems, should not have been interested in anyone. No matter how! The family drama of this particular couple struck America. Compared to Clintons, mountains were considered a stronghold of marital happiness. And after 40 years they decided to part.

The International Red Cross Committee stated that the situation in Kyrgyzstan is becoming "critical" - in connection with the pogroms and killings of ethnic Uzbeks in the south of the country. The common statement of the organization says that its representatives in southern Kyrgyzstan testified cases of extreme cruelty and violence. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan, 117 people became victims of unrest. Wounded - about 1,500.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived today with a working trip to Chechnya. The meeting of Medvedev with the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and other leaders of the republic is planned. According to information agencies, Dmitry Medvedev will hold a meeting on Chechnya’s problems, and then visit a number of objects in Grozny.

US President Barack Obama today goes on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico for the fourth time, where hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil from a damaged well have been flowing into the water for about two months. Obama will visit three injured state - Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Upon his return, the president is expected to perform national television with a speech dedicated to the elimination of the consequences of this largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States.

In the south of Kyrgyzstan - in the Jalal -Abad region and the city of Osh, representatives of local authorities and the leaders of the Uzbek community held negotiations on the settlement of the conflict. This was reported by Radio Liberty correspondent. According to her, the armed gangs are replaced from Jalal -Abad and the surroundings, however, separate armed skirmishes continue in the city of Osh, several buildings are burning - mainly in Uzbek quarters.

The situation in the south of Kyrgyzstan - according to the latest reports of agencies - remains tense, but is not complicated. According to information from various sources, in the Jalal-Abad region and the city of Osh, representatives of local authorities and the leaders of the Uzbek community are negotiating the conflict. According to the latest data, 124 people became victims of riots in the south of Kyrgyzstan.

Poland intends to initiate the creation of a plan for the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan. As the Radio Liberty correspondent Alexander Lemeshevsky reports from Warsaw, the acting of the country Bronislav Komorovsky and Prime Minister Donald Tusk, acting, said this by one vote. “Poland will try to very seriously pose this issue at the next NATO summit in Lisbon in order to develop a plan with the allies, if possible, quickly completion of this intervention.

The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv opened the proceedings on the denial of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people. As our correspondent Vladimir Ivakhnenko reports, the lawsuit against the head of state filed a member of the people's rush of Ukraine Volodymyr Vol.

In the Lviv region, a 19-year-old young man died during a strong storm from a lightning strike. According to Pavel Vasilenko, the head of the press center of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, this happened in the village of Grusha Drohobych district. According to Vasilenko, during a strong thunderstorm in Lviv itself, 6 fires arose at once, the cause of which was the voltage drops in the mains and short circuits.