A grandiose retrospective of underwear from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, collected by the curators of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, will be displayed within the walls of the Erarta Museum in St. Petersburg for several months.

Are two distant worlds interpenetrable? one, imaginary, and the other, real? Can the two finally come together in parallel? current time, connecting as true measure of existence? Goran Petrovic Any reader must have caught himself more than once thinking that the book that captivated him seemed to open doors to another world for him, allowing him to temporarily fall out of his usual everyday life and feel like someone else.

Michel Klimin Society for the Distribution of Useful Books ( FB ) ( VK ) ( Telegram ) Reader's blog Diary entries from a trip to Bilibino, a city located in the Chukotka region, the city-forming enterprise of which is the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant - the northernmost nuclear power plant in Russia. In twenty years, the city's population has dropped from 15,000 people to 5,500.

Tsimrman will outlive us all. Vaclav Havel The Czech Republic has given the world many famous and talented people: Antonin Dvorak, Jan Hus, Bedřich Smetana, Charles IV, Jaroslav Hasek, Jaromir Jagr, finally. Not bad for a small Central European country. But few foreigners know the greatest representative of Bohemia. His name is Yara Cimrman. Have you heard of this? Ask any resident of the Czech Republic, and he will gladly confirm that Cimrman is a genius without equal. Who is Tsimrman? Nobody.

Mikroton Recordings is organizing Mikroton Live 13 at GROUND Chodynka on April 12 and this concert will feature Petr Vrba, a Czech musician, concert organizer, festival curator and one of the most active representatives of the Czech experimental and improvisational music scene. Interview: Kurt Lidvart When did you start playing the trumpet? Around 2005. How did you come up with the idea of ​​using electronics?

Modern Russia is a secular, multi-confessional state with the special role of Orthodoxy as a state- and culture-forming religion in the history of the country being emphasized in recent times by secular authorities and church hierarchs.

We are publishing an excerpt from the new book “How the Brain Works” by Canadian-American scientist Steven Pinker, specializing in thinking and cognitive science. In this chapter, Pinker describes the nature of laughter based on various ideas and research on humor. “How the Brain Works”, 2017 What's so funny?