The famous Russian sociologist, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Sociology of the GUGN, Vladimir Yadov gave the Trinity Option an interview dedicated to the problems of scientific popularization in sociology. Talked by Natalia Demina . - What are you seeing the reason for the growth of pseudo -nausea, quackery in the media and on TV? - In my opinion, charlatanism in science is not exclusively a Russian problem.

In the title I included the words of the rector of Moscow State University V.A. Sadovnichy, which he said more than six years ago. The phrase about minds completely looked like this: “But minds are something that we can always have.” This was said in the context of a conversation about “brain drain”.

In April 1918, the first issue of the new magazine “Success of Physical Sciences” was published. Now the magazine has entered its tenth decade. Thanks to the efforts of the editorial board, all this time the magazine manages to work at the highest level. Now the UFN is one of the Russian magazines with the highest impact factor. Accordingly, many articles printed in the UFN have long been Top Cited. On the anniversary page, some of them are listed. And the absolute leader is the work of V.G.

This year, after a 30-year break (in the 70s, the visit was paid by Mariner-10), Mercury was visited by the Messenger (NASA) interplanetary station. The "ceremonial portrait" is assembled as a mosaic of pictures taken from a distance from 12800 to 16700 km. The picture is given in artificial color, although this can be called with a big stretch: Mercury is essentially black and white and very dark, as, indeed, the moon. But the black and white portrait is very expressive.

The famous Russian sociologist, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Sociology of the GUGN, Vladimir Yadov gave the Trinity Option an interview dedicated to the problems of scientific popularization in sociology. Talked by Natalia Demina . - What are you seeing the reason for the growth of pseudo -nausea, quackery in the media and on TV? - In my opinion, quackery in science is not exclusively a Russian problem.

It must be admitted that, publishing a story about how one, as it were, printed an article written by a nonsense (i.e., a computer program that generates outwardly coherent, but meaningless texts), we counted on some social outcry, but greatly underestimated its scale. About our experiment wrote the main newsletters, several paper publications, radio and television reported. It was also actively discussed in blogs (see schedule).

V.A. Rubakov, chief researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician, member of the Commission of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences to combat the pseudoscience, member of the Councils of the Russian Federation and the Dynasty Foundation. On behalf of the TRV, the dialogue is conducted by B.E. Stern. TRV. On television, anti -scientific nonsense is regularly shown: psychics, occultism, aliens, etc.

-Firstly, let me congratulate you on the decade of the project. The first question is about the history of the idea of ​​a magazine. The Institute of Physics of Gravity was opened in 1995, and already in January 1998 the first articles appeared in Living Reviews in Relativity. Was the creation of a magazine planned already when developing the concept of the institute, or did the idea come later?

I received a letter from a reader. The return address ended with the extension “fr”, which is essential for the further narrative, and the letter itself was rather irritated. However, the irritation related not so much to me personally, but to the current state of the Russian language, which, in the opinion of my correspondent, was so spoiled by the Bolsheviks that it has not been Russian for a long time.

At the 13th International Astronomical Olympiad, held in Trieste (Italy), Russian schoolchildren won 3 gold and 2 silver medals [1]. Gold medals were awarded to Maria Volobueva (Gatchinsky Lyceum No. 3, Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast), Yakov Kononov (Russian Gymnasium No. 59, Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia) and Vadim Lebedev (St. Petersburg).

The Open Economy Foundation continues a series of seminars and expert discussions dedicated to the development of Russian science. On November 18, 2008, in the collegium hall of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, a round table will be held on the topic: “Using the potential of the Russian scientific diaspora.” Event time: 10:00-14:00. Registration of participants from 09:30. Address: Moscow, Bryusov lane, 11.

In the title I included the words of the rector of Moscow State University V.A. Sadovnichy, which he said more than six years ago. The phrase about minds completely looked like this: “But minds are something that we can always have.” This was said in the context of a conversation about “brain drain”.

TRV turned to the creators of the new electronic magazine Chemistry and Chemistry (Chemistryandchemists.narod.ru) with a proposal to tell about his project. One of its chief editors, Kand, tells about the goals and objectives of this popular science publication. chem. Sciences Vladimir Viter. For many years, chemists have been well provided with popular science and educational literature.

Dear members of the ITEP Scientific and Technical Council! Dear Colleagues! As of today, July 9, 2008, I am no longer the director of our wonderful institute. After three years in this position, events have developed in such a way that I am forced to leave this post.

Comment by Dmitry Livanov, Rector of the State Technological University "Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys", Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, Deputy. Chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission: — Have you read the story of “The Uprooter”? — Yes. — What do you think should be the mechanism for the Higher Attestation Commission to respond to pseudoscientific publications and journals?