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.

David Albertovich Frank Kamenetsky (1910-1970) In August 2010, he marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous Soviet physicist, teacher and popularizer of science David Albertovich Frank-Kamenetsky. We publish a biographical essay that was written about his father Maxim Frank-Kamenetsky, professor of Boston University (USA).

Summer, vacation period. What books do researchers and university professors take with them on vacation? We are publishing a story about new book releases from Maria Yudkevich, Director of Academic Development at the State University Higher School of Economics. Apparently I'm getting old. When I get to the bookstore Barnes and Noble or Borders, I no longer want to buy up half the store. Finally, all this can now be ordered through Alibris.

Scientific talent is often combined with talent in other areas of life. And although there is nothing more important for the reputation of a scientist than his scientific publications, it seems to us that the poems of the doctor of physics and mathematics. Sciences, Professor of Radboud University (Netherlands) Mikhail Katsnelson are also worthy of attention.

Indicators of the efficiency and quality of scientific products of different countries in 2005 - 2009. The article of applied mathematician Valery Adzhiev from the National Center for Computer Animation (Great Britain) continues the topic that has begun in our previous publications.

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%).