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.

Can a scientist - candidate or doctor of science - be a criminal? Let's not lie: alas, it can. An increase in knowledge, unfortunately, does not always correlate with an increase in morality. We even know doctors who carried out lethal experiments on living people in Hitler’s camps - Josef Mengele, Aribert Heim and others.

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.

Reprinted from the magazine “Knowledge is Power” ( www.znanie-sila.su ) , 2002, No. 4: 60-66 . At the end of March, at a joint closed meeting of the Presidium of the State Council, the Security Council of the Russian Federation and the Presidential Council on Science and High Technologies, chaired by President Putin, important documents were adopted that will determine the state policy in the field of science for the next ten years. Will these documents really play their proper role?

On November 27, Vladimir Andreevich Uspensky, professor at Moscow State University and laureate of the 2010 Enlightenment Prize, turned 80 years old. congratulated him on his blog : Alexander Arkhangelsky, a journalist and member of the organizing committee of the Enlightenment Prize, — Today is the 80th anniversary of the outstanding mathematician, teacher and popularizer of science Vladimir Andreevich Uspensky.

Laureates and jury of the Enlightener Prize. The ceremony is led by Yuri Vyazemsky. Photo provided by the press service of the Enlightener Prize On November 18, in the Theater Center “On the Passionate”, the Award “Enlightener”, established by the Dynasty Foundation for the best popular science book, took place. The TRV-hobby represents a photo report and performances of the winners of the award at the award ceremony. Vladimir Andreevich Uspensky, Dokt. physical.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Andrey Fursenko. Photos provided by the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Megagrators -Apparently , the first question is about the “Megagran competition”. Are you satisfied with the results? - In general, yes. - And in details? -Probably, there are some things that could be done better, but there are few of them.