The main topics of the lecture: Phallic symbols in the mythology of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece; Medieval ideas about the devil's devil's; David Donatello is the first image of a naked man of the Renaissance; Censorship in art: leaflets on statues and smeared parts of the “terrible court” of the Sistine Chapel; Gulfs of knights and emperors.

Hurricane business: how to make money on weather forecasts Science responds to quick climate changes by increasingly sophisticated models of meteorological predictions. The opportunity to look into the future always gives life to the original business ideas. Slon chose the most interesting of them. We are used to thinking that the weather forecast for more than two or three days is no longer a science, but fantastic.

Modern society today lives special values, many of which would seem very dubious people of past eras, especially the Japanese social estate of samurai. Capitalism dictates to us fashion for material values, reducing the criteria for the viability and merits of the individual to the quantitative accumulation of material goods and the success of an individual career. But was it always like that?

Illustration for the "hell" of Dante. Virgil is talking with demons. 1440 I have never met Vladislav Surkov. From him came only slurred hums, noises, rumors, such distorted his opinions and quotes - apparently also distorted; Based to Marat Helman, then by someone by chance, maybe-Illarionov, or even Nemtsov, I don’t remember for sure.