Director of the Institute of History material culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.A. Nosov Dear Evgeniy Nikolaevich! The reason for contacting you was the publication on the Internet of the audio protocol of the meeting of the “Advisory Council at the IHMC RAS ​​on the problems of researching the archaeological monuments of Cape Okhta”, held on October 21, 2010 ( http://durnowo.livejournal.com/108088.html ).

TrV-Nauka continues the series of publications begun in Nos. 50 , 63 and 65 of 2010 about the fate of Russian scientists who became victims of FSB spy mania. Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov - member of the Public Committee for the Protection of Scientists, co-author with E. Cherny of the article “Don’t come back!” ( www.ej.ru/?a=note&id=9960 ).

A graduate student is a person who takes the first conscious step in the scientific field. The time of graduate school is an amazing time of search, work, communication, new knowledge, acquaintances, and formation.

TrV-Nauka publishes the thoughts of Yekaterinburg City Duma deputy Leonid Volkov ( lv@leonidvolkov.ru ) on how to identify the corruption component in the field of IT competitions and what needs to be done to reduce corruption in this area. The issues under consideration directly resonate with the problem of using 94-FZ in competitions for scientific research and development. Leonid Volkov is an independent IT consultant.

“In one part of the Earth there are several small forests, the other part is completely treeless, but they boil food and sit [for heat] as an emperor, so nobles and all other people with a fire diluted from bull and horse manure. Further, even the hundredth part of the above land is not fertile, and it cannot even bear the fetus if it is not irrigated by river waters.

The question when life on Earth has formed is one of the most intriguing, probably not only for modern science, but also for humanity as a whole. In an article published on November 1, 2010 , Earth and Planetary Science Letters [1], the answer is given: life has existed for more than three billion years. In this article, tiny tubular formations found in the pillow of the green-stone belt of the bar-concrete in South Africa and associated with the activities of ancient microorganisms are dated.

The question of when life formed on Earth is one of the most intriguing, probably, not only for modern science, but also for humanity as a whole.

On November 1, the State Duma by an overwhelming majority of votes (445 - for, 1 - abstained) approved in the first reading an amendment extending by one year the period of study in graduate school (both full-time and part-time) for some specialties of technical and natural sciences that require experimental confirmation results. Despite the fact that the final list of specialties is not yet known, and the preliminary list includes only 38 items [1], the news caused a resonance.

More and more cycles of popular science lectures are appearing. One of them was organized this fall by the magazine Popular Mechanics. In September, students were told about astronomy, in October - about human physiology, in November - about modern weapons. In addition, several lectures were held outside the cycle, as part of various festivals. We asked the organizers to tell us about their work, first impressions and plans. questions .

Reading books from the beginning of the last century is very interesting. Firstly, despite all the yati and izhitsy, everything is clear. It’s still good that we mostly perceive words as a whole, and not letter by letter. Secondly, they are written in very clear language. Even medical literature. Either because a hundred years ago doctors did not know such terrible words as gammaglutamyl transpeptidase or hexamethylene triperoxide diamine.

Announcement of the issue Bad money went to the most worthy (pp. 1-2) Boris Stern In the editorial, we begin to summarize some of the results of the first stage of the megagrant competition. On the one hand, it should be noted that the results of selecting the winners were quite reasonable. On the other hand, the competition has many disadvantages, which are listed in the article. Megagrants: summing up (p.

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....

The study of the remains of ancient insects enclosed inside pieces of Indian amber allowed scientists to conclude that 50-52 million years ago Hindustan was not completely isolated from other continents, as was previously thought. Apparently, the “acquaintance” of India and Eurasia took place much earlier than is commonly believed.

Rice. V. Shilova The Interfax agency reported on November 3, 2010 about the award of the Pythagorean award to Professor Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky (NSU) Yaroslav Sergeev . It is noted that “the professor designed and patented a new“ computer of infinity ”” and that “he proposed a new mathematical language that allows you to record different infinitely large and infinitely small numbers.” This message needs a comment.

Ekaterina Yuryevna Genieva, director of GBIL and a well-known cultural figure, recently published the book “I don’t write to anyone like I do to you...” (M., Rudomino, 2010), which contains the correspondence of her grandmother Elena Vasilyevna Genieva with Sergei Nikolaevich Durylin. These are mainly letters to the exiled Durylin in Tomsk and Kirzhach and his letters from there (1927-1933). When Durylin returned to Moscow, systematic correspondence ceased - the last letter from E.V.