In those days when “Troitsky Option” was considered just a city newspaper in Troitsk near Moscow, at the instigation of its editor-in-chief (who is still in this post), the “LiTR” column was in use, i.e. "Literary Trinity". As an experiment, we are trying to revive this section in TrV-Science (and let it be called “Literary TRINITY OPTION - SCIENCE”). Our guest today is Tatyana Alexandrova. The regiment of muses, mistresses of literary movements and genres, is steadily arriving.

Emma Gerstein’s “Memoirs” were first published during her lifetime, in 1998, and that’s when I first read this book; Today I had a reason to look into Memoirs - and I couldn’t tear myself away. Emma Grigorievna Gershtein lived a long life - she died in 2002 at the ninety-ninth year of her life, being of a clear mind and strong memory. She was a well-known literary critic, primarily an expert on Lermontov (her classic work on “A Hero of Our Time” is available online).

Six months ago, our president (President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yu.S. Osipov) expressed the idea that Russian scientists should publish his scientific articles in Russian magazines in Russian ( www.gazeta.ru/science/2010/02/05_a_332018.shtml ). Thought is not new, having its charms and shortcomings. One of the arguments in favor of this idea: we must be printed in Russian for our province and for students who do not know how to read English.

Now the program of 80 megagrants of 150 million rubles is being widely discussed. for 3 years. Suppose this program is successful, and several dozen very strong scientists from abroad will come to Russian universities and organize research groups. Is it possible to scale up this program by inviting a couple of thousand lesser-known scientists—the strong middle class—using smaller grants?

The administrative building of the Pavlovsk station. Photo by Maria Logacheva In 2010, the UN was declared the International Year of Biodernoti. This concept causes a variety of associations. In some - with coral reefs, in others - with tropical forests and a million species of insects. But almost no one knows that for an unprecedented diversity there was a place in the middle lane of Russia, near St. Petersburg, at the Pavlovsk experimental station. Or was it not found?

In late August, an Internet scandal broke out. The news appeared, reached the top in LiveJournal, receiving a fantastic number of comments: Institute of Russian Language named after V.V. Vinogradov officially excluded from the vocabulary a swear word of three letters. With reference to the leading researcher at the Institute, Academician Natalia Vavilova, it was reported that this word has long become a parasitic word, used without connection with the context and often mechanically.

In the N region, scientists and journalists went on an expedition to search for the Yeti. A conference dedicated to traditional medicine and alternative treatment methods was held at the Research Institute of Road Construction during the Transitional Period. The three-time honored professor of the Russian Academy of True Sciences presented a new project for a torsion bar engine.

Answers from Tatyana Maksimovna Birshtein [1], Dr. physics and mathematics Sciences, chief researcher at the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor at St. Petersburg State University, laureate of the RAS Prize named after Academician V.A.

It is easy and pleasant to move to Moscow: under each bush, some friend sits here who wants to feed me, drink and put to bed. There are much more friends here than in St. Petersburg. With most of them we have been closely communicating for ten years; I have never seen two -thirds of them. The Internet made the world very large and at the same time very small - I do not know which of the statements is more accurate; The Internet just changed the proportions.

Instead of an epigraph: I don’t know whether it is true or not, but it seems that in the salons of the Wild West you could meet the announcement “Don’t shoot at the pianist, he plays as he can” In the Trv-Hunch No. 17 (61) dated August 31, 2010, two articles appeared, which forced me to join in the discussion. This is a note “Critical I Restlessness” by Irina Yakutenko and the article “Calling the dark matter” by Boris Stern.

On the first day of September, the traditional, now 23rd Moscow International Book Fair opened at the All-Russian Exhibition Center. Although book publishing is going through hard times now (book output has decreased by 20% compared to 2009), the exhibition looks representative: 1,500 publishing houses offer 200 thousand book titles.