The report on the conference “Scientific Diaspora and the Future of Russian Science” (TrV No. 13 (57) dated July 6 of this year) mentioned the Association of Russian-Speaking Scientists (RASA), which, according to its vice-president Igor Efimov, unites about two hundred Russian scientists origin., working abroad (one hundred of them are listed in the list of members of the Association: www.dumaem-po-russki.org/members.html ).

Leading. Dear friends, hello! We are pleased to welcome you to the press center of the Russian International Information Agency RIA Novosti. The topic of our event today is “Will the voice of science be heard?” Probably everyone has already heard about the letter to the President, which has already been signed by a thousand doctors of science and about sixty members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and others, and today we want to discuss this problem.

Announcement of the issue WAC: Reform Roadmap (pp. 1-2) Natalia Demina The Public Chamber held hearings on the work of the Higher Attestation Commission. In addition to important issues, such strange things as the inclusion of theology in the list of scientific specialties, etc. were discussed there. The article provides a detailed overview of the hearings. Also on the second page is a transcript of the speech of a member of the Public Chamber, Evgeny Leonidovich Yuryev.

Articles in HTML: 12/21/2010 PDF: TrV No. 25 (69N) for 2010: Man and Corporation Announcement of the issue Man and the Corporation (page 1) The issue opens with a story about the problems Alexey Krushelnitsky encountered after his publications about Akademintorg. The problem was solved (to a large extent due to...

In such heat, what else is there to talk about if not the heat. So I'm talking about the same thing - in the sense of the word 'heat', as well as other words on this topic - 'heat' for example

G. Webb. Photo Lance Iversen / The Chronicle (from the site www.sfgate.com) In the title of this “narater”, each one must be understood literally, although all together they give rise to many different metaphorical associations. Sand Hill Road is a short street that limits the territory of the world famous Stanford University from the north-west.

The first European universities (Bologna, Oxford and Paris) arose in the XI-XII centuries, and monastery schools served as a prototype. Professors and students were perceived as a kind of spiritual estate, teachers were forbidden to combine marriage bonds, students wore characteristic clothes - mantles and hats. The knowledge that the medieval university supplied graduates, of course, was the most loser in that era - first of all, theology, jurisprudence and medicine.

In the photo from the LiveJournal Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy Andrei Kuraev (http://diak-kuraev.livejournal.com/107767.html). This picture with a bike show in Sevastopol himself commented as follows: “There are many impressions. But the strongest of them is the Minister of Education and Science A. A. Fursenko in a T -shirt with an Orthodox cross and with the inscription "God with us". " With tolerance (tolerance) in Russia is not the most prosperous situation.

In the last few years, a completely new direction of popularization activity has appeared and developed on the Internet - popular science blogs. People involved in science write in their online diaries on topics they know and love. Chemists - about chemistry, biologists - about biology, astronomers - well, you get the idea. Reading such blogs is terribly interesting: usually their authors talk about some new discovery or branch of their science in simple language, with many examples.

The skeleton of the Neanderthal Ten years ago, sequencing (determining the sequence of nucleotides) of the human genome was announced. It was a black sequence, then several more articles appeared about the final, most final and most, the most final version; The sequence of the genome was supplemented, corrected and clarified. It was a chimary genome, i.e.

The exact number of believers and non-believers in Russians is a mystery. An analysis of surveys from Russia's three leading poll centers showed that their results vary over a fairly wide range. Thus, according to a survey by VTsIOM dated March 30, 2010, 75% of Russians called themselves followers of Orthodoxy (in 2009 there were 70%). At the same time, the share of non-believing respondents fell by half compared to 2006 (from 16 to 8%).

From July 2 to July 7, 2010, the next Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) was held in Italian Turin-a large-scale pan-European event, which has gathered together scientists, scientific journalists and PR services, entrepreneurs from science, as well as ordinary people who are interested in science. This year, according to the organizers, ESOF visited more than four thousand people. We publish a report on this event of the editor of the Nauka heading newspaper Action Karina Nazarestyan. In the photo T.

We also publish a comment by Andrei Starinets, an employee of the Center for Theoretical Physics. R. Payerls of Oxford University (Great Britain) and one of the authors of the famous letter of representatives of the Russian scientific diaspora to President Medvedev. We learned about the existence of RASA, as I recall, after the publication of our open letter. This association includes several people whom we personally know for many years as magnificent scientists and beautiful people.

In 2006, I met a creationist on the Internet and was completely amazed. I knew that in the 19th century most people were supporters of the version of the divine creation of the world, but it never occurred to me that the bearers of this concept remained in the 21st century.

By nature I am a morning person, so I am used to working from morning until 6 pm. However, when at the dacha the thermometer quickly reaches 30° and there is no end in sight, you look for other things to do. Thanks to this and, of course, the Internet, I watched three Russian films and one television program about our cinema (from the video archive of Channel 5). The television program was one of the episodes of “Oil Paintings” - a talk show hosted by Dmitry Bykov.