Articles in HTML: 11/22/2011 PDF: TrV No. 23 (92N) for 2011: “Our everything” - a guy from Mishaninskaya Announcement of the issue “Our Everything” - a guy from Mishaninskaya (page 1) Alexey Levin November 19 marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Mikhailo Lomonosov, who is rightly considered the founder of the modern scientific tradition in Russia....

By Ivanova A.V., residing at… Ph.D. chem. Sciences, Art. scientific co-workers RAS, higher education, fluent in English, married with (so far) one child Dear State, The history of our relationship with you, although not very frequent, goes back almost three decades. Soon we can both celebrate another anniversary. But today I would like to talk about something slightly different. I can remember few instances of communication with you from my childhood.

Dear editors! Our life is filled with good and different events, sometimes there are more good ones, and more often there are different ones. We recently threw off the yoke of the long-standing mayor Luzhkov, under whom his wife, corruption and traffic jams flourished in Moscow, and received in return a new, modern mayor - Sergei Semenovich Sobyanin. Wow, what a mayor he will be - even his party colleagues were amazed at how quickly he gets into the swing of things!

Commentary on the article by Alexander Bagrov " Crisis of fundamental science and the tasks of oriented financing of scientific research " Someone will probably reproach us with a rather bulky article, which also contains a number of interpreting statements and things that we ourselves consider clearly erroneous. Is it possible to see in its author of a bearer of some fresh concept that requires a separate discussion?

Rice. 1. The image of the SpaceShiptwo spacecraft developed by the designers of Virgin Galactic. Photo from the site www.virlingalactic.com On October 22, the head of Virgin Galactic, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson, in a solemn setting opened the world's first private spaceport (runway for missileplaces), which is located in New Mexico (USA).

And “ice-nine” existed on our land. Kurt Vonnegut, "Cradle for a Cat" (1963) Everyone knows that water at a certain temperature turns into ice. Fans of science fiction also remember that Dr. Honnaker, the hero of the fantastic novel by Kurt Wonnegut “The Cradle for a Cat”, created a special crystalline shape-an ice-nine that was able to freeze it in contact with liquid water.

On the site "Pseudoscience!" ( www.ljenauka.com ) A group of scientists and public figures collects signatures under the appeal regarding the introduction of the inventions of Viktor Petrik. The collection of signatures was launched on the eve of the Pure Water-2010 International Forum ( www.waterforum.ru ), taking place in Moscow from October 20 to 23, 2010.

The meaning and purpose of science consists in building a picture of the world as a model of the environment of human existence. Humanity needs accurate knowledge of its habitat for an adequate reaction both to the changes taking place in it and to the resources of the environment as a source of satisfying its needs. This knowledge should be cleaned as if possible and unreasonable assumptions.

From childhood we were taught to tell the truth, and only the truth. We agreed and ran into the yard to practice the art of bluffing in the children's card game “Believe it or not.” All children have cheated and are cheating. Often adults force them to do this, driving them into the tight framework of norms and rules that are not always clear.

What’s nice about my science (linguistics) is that you can collect material or sharpen your tools without interrupting your everyday life - of course, if you keep your ears open. Of course, both a physicist and an astrobotanist can think on a trolleybus, but not everyone is so lucky to be “in the field”, sitting in front of the TV or standing in line. This, of course, especially applies to those who live in the country of the language being studied.

Announcement of the issue The fight for the RFBR continues (page 1) Evgeniy Onishchenko Our regular author spoke at a meeting of scientists held on October 21 in Moscow. He paid special attention to the preservation and development of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Russian Humanitarian Foundation. The editorial is also dedicated to this, which also briefly describes the event. The TsNIIMASH-Export case: a bargaining chip in a big game (p.

Continuing the series of interviews with representatives of Russian popular science magazines, we asked questions to the editor of the Popular Mechanics magazine, Dmitry Mamontov. — How would you briefly formulate the magazine’s credo?

At the job where I had to explain to housewives how to wash the floor properly, I lasted two weeks. Now I've disappeared to a decent place and edited normal scientific news. As a result, I myself feel like a housewife, because my correspondents, to my great regret, write not only about biology, but also about astrophysics. Dark matter most likely consists of neutralinos, they write, and therefore it is not the halo that needs to be studied, but the microhalo.

From childhood we were taught to tell the truth, and only the truth. We agreed and ran into the yard to practice the art of bluffing in the children's card game “Believe it or not.” All children have cheated and are cheating. Often adults force them to do this, driving them into the tight framework of norms and rules that are not always clear. Threats and punishments also do not really contribute to the development of love of truth.

The TRV continues to ask well-known Russian scientists about popular science books that had the greatest influence on them. In this issue, we publish the answers of the economist, science, a doctor. Economy. sciences, head of the IMEMO RAS SEMETO Irina Dezhina; Physics, doct. physical. sciences, head of the laboratory of superconductivity of the Institute of Physics of Solid Body (IFTT) Valery Ryazanov; sociologist, doct. Philos. sciences, honorary rector of the European University in St.