Photo: Victoria Bilsborough / Unsplash.com Drawing can bring purely practical benefits: it improves the psychological state and develops cognitive abilities. The study of the scientists of the University of Drexel in Philadelphia showed that it is not at all necessary to be a talented artist or spend a lot of time to feel it.

The social network Facebook has launched a second news feed for users called Explore (“Interesting”) . It is reported by TechCrunch. Recommended publications from pages for which the user are not signed will fall into the new tape. They will be selected by analogy with the news that the user or his friends like, and in accordance with his interests. So far there is no advertisement in the Explore tape. In the future, as TechCrunch indicates, Facebook will be able to monetize it.

Researchers from the University of Renn in France said they managed to understand the causes of dyslexia. The results of a long-term study, reports Agency France-Presse, published in the journal ProCheding of Royal Society. Dyslexia is a disease that is characterized by a violation of reading and writing skills. Its presence in children can lead to mental retardation. In adulthood, dyslexia can develop with brain injuries or other lesions of the central nervous system.

If you used eye drops, you probably noticed: only part of the medicine falls into the eye, the rest is outside. This is due to dispensers on bottles. Studies have shown that more drugs often acts through them than necessary, and even more than can hold the surface of the eye. This is usually not a reason for concern. The excess simply follows, the dose does not exceed, although an excessive amount of drug can lead to side effects, for example, burning in the eye.

Those who lived at a time when “still knew how to make totalitarianism” were rewarded for the hardships of faith in the strong truth that exists on the other side of the lies. Solzhenitsyn wrote that since we were not ripe to go out to the square and “lumber the truth”, then let's at least refuse to say what we don’t think - and this will be the first step towards the truth.

Due to large granite orders for Moscow sidewalks for manufacturers of tombstones and grave plates in the Urals and Siberia, a stone shortage occurs. It is reported by "Medusa". Representatives of three companies in Siberia and the Volga region who are engaged in the manufacture of monuments spoke about problems with granite. “Due to Moscow orders, the Ural graniks behave rudely and almost stopped taking orders for small batches of 300-400 square meters,” one of the companies noted.

Zhizhzhao, China. Photo: Reuters This is an article by Noah Smith, author of Bloomberg View, assistant professor of financial disciplines of the University of Stonei Brook. Which country is the most powerful in the world? I suppose this is China. You can evaluate according to various criteria - according to diplomatic, cultural, military power either in terms of the country's economy, and China has definitely definitely become the world's largest economy. However, many will not agree with this.

On Thursday, October 19, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at a meeting of the Valdai discussion club in Sochi. In his speech, mainly devoted to foreign policy, Putin once again criticized Western countries. Republic briefly tells what exactly the West was accused of the president. Double standards The situation in Catalonia, as well as in Iraqi Kurdistan, became the result of double standards of Western countries.

The story of Dmitry Tsorionov (Enteo) and Maria Alekhina is interested in the evidence of the former associates of the former associates of the ex-leader of the “God of God”-told in two publications- “such deeds” and “Batenka, yes, ”-you are a transformer. They confidently describe Tsorionov as a near -church media project. Active small - a random person from the converts, broke a T -shirt on the opponent, gained second fame, and kept well in front of journalists.

Relatives of Kogalymavia, who died in the A321 aircraft, filed a lawsuit over the carrier and insurers for a total of about € 1.4 billion (more than 93 billion rubles). This was stated by lawyer Istsov Anatoly Kucheren, Interfax reports. According to him, the lawsuit in the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow was sent on October 19 of 149 victims.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed the former head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov as his special representative on humanitarian and economic cooperation with the Caspian states. The corresponding decree was published on October 19 on the official portal of legal information and enters into force from the day of signing. Abdulatipov at the end of September announced that he was leaving the post of head of Dagestan. Putin accepted his resignation on October 3.

The Chinese telecommunication company Tencent Holdings launched an online game in which users must applaud China to China Xing Jinping. It is reported by Bloomberg. The game was released on October 18 - on the opening of the XIX Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. On the first day of the forum, Xi Jinping made a speech that lasted almost three and a half hours.

Scientists have found that over the past decades, the number of insects in Europe has decreased significantly, but this fact has not yet been able to find an explanation. The results of the study were published in the journal PLOS ONE. Researchers analyzed a change in the number of flying insects (bees, butterflies, aphids, and so on) in 63 protected natural territories in Germany from 1989 to 2016.

The Spanish government will hold an emergency meeting on Saturday October 21, at which it will discuss the application of the 155th article of the Constitution that limits the political autonomy of Catalonia. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the press service of the Spanish government. As explained in the Spanish government, Catalonia President Carles Puchdemon could not “clearly and clearly answer whether the region announced its independence or not.