I returned to Moscow from evacuation in June 1943. I was 17 years old and graduated from 9th grade. I was faced with a question: what to do next?

Dear editors! Our authorities are making a lot of efforts to force Russia to get off the raw materials furnace and move it onto the rails of innovative development and modernization. Beautiful speeches are made, innovative development strategies are written, outdated legislation is improved, and in general all sorts of fateful decisions are made. Why then are we so slow to move in the right direction? This is the thought that has been haunting me in recent days.

Announcement of the issue “Nature cannot be fooled” (pp. 1-2) Maxim Borisov 25 years since the Challenger accident... Among other things, this is also a reason to remember the phrase of Richard Feynman: “For the successful development of technology, reality must be placed above PR, because nature cannot be fooled.” This is exactly what you remember when thinking about the features of the new actively discussed Russian standard of education in high school.

Entrance to Denisov Cave. Photo by A. Mironov At the very end of last year, an article was published, which was supposed to get into all ratings of the best results of the year, but did not have time, because these ratings were compiled, of course, in advance. This is an article about the genome of man from the Denisa cave in Altai.

TrV-Nauka has repeatedly addressed the topic of the Russian Science Citation Index, RSCI (“What to do with the citation index”, No. 45, 01/19/2010 [1]; “Persistent assault on methodological heights”, No. 57, 07/06/2010 [2]; interview with project leaders in No. 58, 07/20/2010 [3]).

Photo by K. Lebedev from the site "Gazeta.ru" I will say an unpopular thing, but I think that this is correct: if we all believe that everything needs to be achieved by our labor, that it is necessary to work fashionable, we need to cancel standard scholarships from students, because this is the wrong signal, what the fact of your studies you get compensation. You can work after studying: at the department, in the library, in the cafe, transfers, not money transfers, of course.

Andrei Fursenko, being a student of mathematics and mechanics at Leningrad State University, began receiving a state scholarship only from the 4th year, when he became an excellent student. At the same time, children who needed it could receive a scholarship from the 1st year, and the decision was made by the student council. The Minister of Science and Education spoke about this at a meeting with representatives of student councils of Russian universities, held on January 25, 2011.

The well-known mayor of the Moscow region city of Khimki, Vladimir Strelchenko, defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Political Science. The defense took place on January 27, 2011 at the Dissertation Council 502.006.14 at the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.

Seeing Jonah Lerer's How We Make Decisions on a store shelf, the nucleus accumbens in the subcortical regions of my brain released a certain amount of dopamine, which led to the emergence of an emotion of happiness from the potential purchase and possession of the book, which prompted me to shell out a lot of money , - probably, this is how the author would explain my decision to buy his book. Or not.

Photo from the site www.whitehouse.gov January 25, 2011, US President Barack Obama addressed the American nation with a message in the country (State of the Union Address). It should be noted that in the first place in it are theses about the special importance of education, science and innovation for the successful development of the country (see the speech transcript www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/remarks-president-union-address ).

My nine-year-old daughter asked what it means: And the card will gather dust / On a shelf of yellowed books from the song “The tanks rumbled on the field.” This reminded me of how intrigued a foreign professor I knew was when he saw the sign “Replacing Batteries” in Moscow. I disappointed him by explaining that it was just about the batteries in the watch. Naturally, I told my daughter that the card was a photograph (as they say now, a photo).

Announcement of the issue “Nature cannot be fooled” (pp. 1-2) Maxim Borisov 25 years since the Challenger accident... Among other things, this is also a reason to remember the phrase of Richard Feynman: “For the successful development of technology, reality must be placed above PR, because nature cannot be fooled.” This is exactly what you remember when thinking about the features of the new actively discussed Russian standard of education in high school.

Last October, there was intense discussion about the reliable detection of the first galaxy in the reionization era, at redshift z=8.6. This means that we see the galaxy as it was when the Universe was approximately 600 million years old. What about more distant galaxies?

In fact, I’ve already read this book once—though not under the most appropriate circumstances. In the winter of 1990, I was returning home from Stockholm via Helsinki. It was snowing and raining, so I whiled away the time before the evening train on the second floor of a huge bookstore. On one of the open windows, I noticed the book “Life and Being of Marina Tsvetaeva,” recently published in Paris.

Prehistoric stone tools discovered in the United Arab Emirates have allowed an international team of archaeologists led by Simon Armitage of the University of London to propose a new scenario for the emigration of sapiens from Africa. The discovery was made several years ago in the Jebel Faya area west of the Strait of Hormuz (which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea).