Rebekah Frumkin Our constant Columonist Rebekah Frumkina I presented it article , discussion directed against one hundred Alexandra Azbel "For what Need Science ? " ( TRV No. 3 (22), February 17, 2009, p . 2). IN her St. Petersburg The scientist , thinking O how ​ ​ Separate Science from False And science from Nonuka , I did it The conclusion is that "science - This activity directed on Obtaining algorithms predictions behavior studied objects or management them " .

In the spring of 2009, the system of unified state examinations will become the main form of admission to higher education institutions. Only two and a half dozen alma mothers received the right to additional exams, and not even for all their faculties. So university teachers have lost their leadership in preparing applicants - now they cannot “informally” influence enrollment in any way, they cannot help the applicant by educating him about the specifics of passing exams at their institute.

It happens that the ill-considered statements of responsible employees play a useful role: the indignation they cause raises a wave of discussions that allow us to better understand the essence of things. It turns out to be a kind of constructive provocation, albeit unintentional. Andrei Fursenko’s statement about the unnecessaryness of teaching higher mathematics at school unwittingly turned out to be just such a provocation.

Dear editors ! Currently, it is difficult one way or another not to affect the unfolding global crisis in your letters. Of course, everything is not so bad in our country: the people in response to crisis phenomena are even more closely random around the party and duumvirs, and the public stability achieved by the cost of the titanic efforts of the authorities remains.

We already They wrote O Reform science V China ( TRV No. 3 for 2008). ABOUT how ​ ​ this reform It looks from the inside ( and A little from the side ), Mikhail Gelfandu tells graduate Biofaca Moscow State University Philip Khaitovich , leader groups V partnership Computing Institute biology Chinese Academy sciences And Max Society Planck ( Partner Institute for Computation Biology , Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences , Chinese Academy of Sciences ).

The Rusnano Supervisory Board approved an infrastructure project to create a warehouse-catalog of reagents in Russia. The current lack of infrastructure providing a full range of services to provide high-purity chemical and biochemical reagents to Russian manufacturers and research organizations is a significant deterrent to the emergence of innovative developments and companies in the field of biomedicine.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1, 2, 3. In the photo - the panorama of the central part of the keel nebula, located at a distance of 7,500 light years from us (the mosaic of many pictures of Hubble, the width of the panorama - about 50 light years). This is one of the places where the stars are most intensively born, including giant ones - up to 100 solar masses, which shine hundreds of thousands brighter than the Sun and burn out in a matter of millions of years.

Andrey Fursenko: "There is no need to get involved in excessive subtleties at school" Minister education And science A . Fursenko , speaking on February 24, 2009 at “Eche Moscow " , clarified his position By reason teaching Higher Mathematics V school . We publish edited fragment from his interview . Led transmission Yu . Kobaladze And WITH . Sorokina . Yu . Kobaladze : I have a question.

This story is strange, but true... One day, the Pontiac division of General Motors received the following complaint: “ you writing is second time , and n’t blame you for writing like not This answering do me I , because what about ’m . ’m I the to really seems nonsense I However fact is that the , eat our every family has a tradition : night cream for dessert we ice . change Only the types of ice cream .

What will be if scientist It will come out from your own cabinet And Speak on one from Moscow streets Funny social Experiment ? Read more about this Read V stories from Books famous Russian Ma theme Yuri Ivanovich Manina "Mathematics How Metaphor " , which TRV Publishing With courteous consent author And publishers MCNMO . Cm . Also interview M. ​ Gelfand With Yu . Manin "Not We You are beating Mathematics his own profession , a she us chooses " ( TRV No. 13n, September 30 , 2008).

Quite a long time ago, when the “sixth wave” was just rising in Russian science fiction (now, they say, the seventh is already on the decline), I had the opportunity to participate in a discussion about what happened to the trend in science fiction literature...

Irina Levontina And today, not a word about the presidents, ambassadors, drug business and the Criminal Code. On the occasion of the beginning of spring - only about high. As said by Leo Losev, ABOUT lyrics And others trifles . Somehow on TV they talked about the so-called Chirlida Rah - specially trained people who form a group of support for the singer, sports team, politics, and so on.

Speakes Mikhail Gelfand The Polytechnic Museum of Moscow hosted the scientific and practical conference "Scientific Journal in Russia: Actual problems and development prospects in modern conditions." The discussions about the most important problems facing the scientific journals of Russia were attended by VAK leaders, the creators of the Russian scientific quoting index, representatives of the largest publishing holdings Elseview, Maik and others, well -known scientists, as well as more than

Pavel Amnuel For a long time, when the “sixth wave” was just rising in Russian science fiction (now, they say, the seventh is already a decline), I had a chance to participate in the discussion about what happened to the direction in fantastic literature, which was denoted by all the familiar abbreviation NF. Actually, he asked himself, writing in one of the articles that the Russian -speaking NF (science fiction) ordered to live long, and this is very sad.

Can Lee compare salaries teachers universities different countries Mira ? How Living Professor V Saudi Arabia , Japan or South Africa ? About this Article of a specialist V areas geometric modeling And computer graphs Valeria Adzhieva , a graduate MEPHI , already Long time working V National ​ center computer animations V University Bournemut ( Bournemouth University ) ( Great Britain ). How much do scientists and university teachers of different countries earn?