Articles in HTML: 12/07/2010 PDF: TrV No. 24 (68N) for 2010: “At least we tried” Announcement of the issue Interview with Minister Andrei Fursenko Mikhail Gelfand asked about who was given mega-grants, how to change examination procedures and what to do with 94-FZ - pp. 2-3 Akademintorg and Co. State procurement of scientific equipment:...

Coloring the dinosaurus Anchiornis huxleyi. Image from the site www.jakobvinther.com Until recently, scientists could not say anything about how dinosaurs were painted. Bright colors of the characters of the film “Jurassic Park” are a product of the fantasy of film artists, and not recreated on the basis of paleontological data. Now the group of American paleontologists from Yale University managed to restore the true colors of the cover of some extinct giant reptiles.

In the summer of this year, President Dmitry Medvedev was very outraged when he found out that medical tomographs for Russian hospitals were purchased at high prices. He would be outraged no less if he learned about the public procurement of scientific equipment in some Russian research organizations, and above all in the Russian Academy of Sciences ... In wounds, expensive devices and large sets of equipment for various purposes are purchased through the so -called centralized purchases.

Many years ago, I was riding on the subway and observed a scene that still stands before my eyes. A mother and her little daughter, a preschooler, whiled away the time by playing with words.

Dear editors! The most important event in the history of progressive humanity that took place last week was, of course, the speech of our beloved President Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev before the Federal Assembly. In front of both his chambers. It gave countless food for thought to deputies, officials, politicians, political scientists and other people who make up the color of our society.

The best half Rice. M. Smagina We present a comment by Ivan Dudenkov, a researcher at the Institute of Metallurgy and Material Studies named after A. A. Baykova, to the article “Once again about homeopathy and about water memory” (No. 67, p.

Necessary preface Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger can now be famous as a pioneer of clean technologies From November 29 to December 10, the annual COP 16 & CMP 61 meeting is held in Cancun (Mexico)-a summit of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (RKIK), designed to give some form to those intentions about the control of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which were discussed in 2009 in Copenhagen.

Porthos extended his hand, took the letter and read in a trembling voice: “The Queen wishes to speak with Monsieur d'Artagnan, whom she asks to follow the bearer of this letter.” “Well,” said Porthos, “I don’t see anything special here.” “And I see, and a lot,” objected d’Artagnan. “If they called me, it means things are bad.” Think what had to happen for the queen to remember me twenty years later! “True,” Porthos agreed. A. Dumas.

A. Fomenko. From the site www.philos.msu.ru An interview with a novochronologist and, unfortunately, the actual member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoly Fomenko ( http://er-portal.ru/about/text.shtml?16/5379.11128 ) appeared on the official portal of the United Russia party. The surname Fomenko and his “new chronology” in the scientific community have long become commonplace, meaning an outrageous level of incompetence in historical research and direct falsifications.

“The Trinity Option” again turns to the topic of “spy” cases involving scientists (for previous publications, see Nos. 50, 63, 65 and 66 for 2010). We are publishing a new article by Vera Vasilyeva, court reporter, correspondent for the Internet portal “Human Rights in Russia” ( HRO.org ), prepared specifically for TrV-Nauka.

For reasons beyond his control, Igor Dmitrievich Novikov’s birthday falls on Police Day. Therefore, colleagues and friends remember this date well - November 10. And even more so this year, when I. D. had an anniversary - his 75th birthday, which he celebrated with anniversary reports, first in Copenhagen, and later at the Astrospace Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute.

Pages of history Nature people have their own people 12/07/2010 / No. 68 / s.

Photo by A. Artamonov On November 24, 2010, the State Duma adopted the draft law “On the federal budget for 2011 and for the planning period of 2012 and 2013.” In the third reading and presented him to the Federation Council. This was preceded by the second reading of the budget, which was discussed on November 19, which discussed amendments to the draft law on the budget. The amendment of the deputy Boris Kashin, who proposed increasing the funding of the Russian Federation by 1 billion rubles.

We continue to survey graduate students at www.makesurvey.net and accept stories at aspirantpoll@yahoo.com . You can go to the questionnaire page from the Trinity Option website: www.trv-science.ru/2010/11/09/bytie-aspiranta/ Within a month we received 420 questionnaires. The table shows the distribution of questionnaires by city.

The word “PR” appeared in Russia, probably in the early 90s. At first, most people did not understand what was hidden behind the strange abbreviation. Knowing that four letters encoded the English phrase public relations (PR), which translates as “public relations,” did not make the term any clearer. What kind of public relations? How are they formed? And, most importantly, why?