Home advantage is a long -studied phenomenon in sports. Although for him there is no unequivocal explanation, statistics - collected in decades - confirms that it exists. The analysis of the data from 1876 to 2003 (it included more than 400 thousand matches played in professional leagues of North America and England in baseball, football, American football, basketball and hockey) showed that the advantage in home games was manifested in all these sports.

At the end of February 2021, the American economist and political scientist Anderesh Oslund published on the website of the Atlantic Council announced for some reason in Russia (not to be confused with NATO-this is just such an analytical organization in Washington) Report of Russia After Putin. Russian propaganda reacted with genuine hysteria.

By the hundredth day of his stay, Baiden set a goal to instill 200 million Americans, and this goal is quite achievable. Although there are some difficulties Photo: Unsplash.com On April 19, America overcame two important borders: firstly, 50% of the country's adult population (more than 131 million people), according to CDC, received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine; Secondly, all adults (older than 16) in all states from this moment can be used.

Daniel Kaneman performs at the International Economic Forum in Davos, 2013 Photo: Remy Steinegger / Store Norske Leksikon (Creative Commons) The term “supergroup” is usually associated with rock music, but here is a supergroup from modern behavioral psychology: in May 2021 the book “Noise: the flaws of human judgment” , which was written jointly by Daniel Kaneman, Olivier Siboni and Cassa Sanstin, is published (in English).

For a long time, humanity has come across similar phenomena: people from other communities find themselves in some community, and some events take place in it: “indigenous people” interact with “strangers”, as a result the community changes. Or does not change. Cultural and - more narrow - linguistic reflection on this subject has always occurred.

The last place where you expect to see an act of love precisely as an act of love, and not something else is the Soviet film of the first half of the 1970s. And in general, a Soviet film. Lech in the yard said: “Yesterday, the first Soviet pornographic film was shown in the Cinema House. Called "autumn". " Lech was a year older and his dad was a famous artist. He often eavesdropped on parental conversations, and then retold them in the yard. I asked what is “pornographic”.

On April 20, the publishing house Corpus (AST) is published by the new novel by Vladimir Sorokin, Dr. Garin. Sorokin occupies a special place in Russian literature - he has long become a tool for describing reality (“this is Sorokin,” they usually say in cases where there are no more words). Sorokin began to write more than 40 years ago; One of his main topics remains the relationship of the Soviet and post -Soviet man with the word, speech, and, therefore, meanings.

The fresh report of the Liberal Mission is dedicated to stagnation in the country and the chances of overcoming it Unsplash.com At the end of January, we wrote about the report of the Liberal Mission Foundation “The Year of Covid: Preliminary results and challenges of the decade”, In which the economists and political scientists famous in the country tried to evaluate the work done by the state over the past year.

More recently, Jack Dorsie with nostalgia recalled how he performed in the punk group on the streets of Saint Luis, and reflected on how punk music looks like high technology. As one of the examples, he cited a very famous punk group Ramones, which after a failure debut in a very short time has gained immense popularity in America. Jack sees in this a direct analogy with programmers, including himself. “The guys write programs,” he explains , “but nothing comes out.