Alexander Petrikov specifically for "Kashin" The intellectual lack of information of Russian society gives rise to monsters.

In the new photo column, Arthur Bondar shows a unique photo material shot during the Second World War on one of the largest and most advanced German ships - the Gneisenau battleship Every day it is becoming increasingly difficult to find unknown negatives of the Second World War. And special luck, when films are found, shot on board ships or submarines, since these military facilities have always been under special control, however, as now.

The racial diversity of the peoples of Asia. Illustration from the Swedish Encyclopedia Nordisk Familjebok, 1904. Illustration: Wikimedia Commons Most serious scientists have long rejected the concept of “race” - a specific set of phenotypic signs characteristic of a particular human population. The centuries -old efforts of science have not allowed to clearly formulate these signs (accurate skin tone? Hair structure?

Last week, the Platform Social Design Center has issued a report on the May study of society and business expectations from the recovery period after quarantine “Return from the war. Request to the new public environment. ” It was based on online surveillance of 1000 respondents throughout Russia, 25 interviews with representatives of small and medium-sized businesses and 20 expert interviews).

The saleswoman in the gift store rejoices at the opportunity to make a selfie at the workplace Maria Pokrovskaya In this weekend, choosing the day allotted by my house for walking, I decided to walk on Pyatnitskaya and see how entrepreneurs adapt to the next stage of removing restrictions. Last time, I was here a month ago, registering the death of Moscow small business (a collection of dying notes can be seen here ).

The health of humans and some other animals depends on their microbioma - a huge variety of bacteria living in the body. The intestinal microbia is so important for health and survival that some scientists consider it logical to think about animals as “ the sum of the microbes inhabiting them ”. However, recent studies show, reports Quanta that this connection is not a common rule, but rather an exception. Some animals do not have a microbioma at all in our understanding of the word.

At the beginning of the Russian pandemic Sergei Sobyanin, observers declared almost the most vulnerable leader in the country - in a political, of course, sense. Under the president of the Moscow mayor, the epiccent city, still holding leadership according to the daily statistics of the infected ones-it seemed perfectly suited for the role of the scapegoat.

The state policy in the field of healthcare in a pandemic situation is turning into necropolitan, researchers from the London Economy School Hamish Robertson and Joanna Travalal (citing the work of the author of the term Akilli Mbembe). The states were not ready for pandemia and now make purely political decisions in the fight against it; In fact, states decide who to live and to whom to die.