I have a number of thoughts about the work of scientific press services (or press centers) in Russia, which I hasten to share with you. It’s good that someone performs such functions in the institutions of our country. This is especially important for large organizations, such as the SB RAS, for example. This is a great help for press service journalists: — finding the right experts; - organizing interviews; — as a source of up-to-date news and contacts.

Some of my colleagues like to complain about how meager press releases are written in scientific institutes, that, they say, nothing is clear from them, there are no contacts, you can’t write material on them.

Books on the history of science are different. Some are strict, chronometrically verified and ideologically correct textbooks intended for students and graduate students. Others are textbook collections composed of primary sources that are most important for the analysis of the logic of the development of a certain science. Both the first and second are similar to the academic style and an impartial manner of presentation.

The publishing house “New Literary Review” published “Diary” by L.V. in the memoir series. Shaporina (Yakovleva) in two volumes (an excerpt from this book relating to the siege of Leningrad was published on the OpenSpace portal). I hope to write about this book in detail in a more free format; now I will dwell only on some scientific and practical issues related to the publication of books of this kind.

Characteristic view in the business center under construction Last week, the 7th World Conference of Scientific Journalists ( www.wcsj2011.org ) was held in the capital of Katar Dokha.

I have a number of thoughts about the work of scientific press services (or press centers) in Russia, which I hasten to share with you. It’s good that someone performs such functions in the institutions of our country. This is especially important for large organizations, such as the SB RAS, for example. This is a great help for press service journalists: — finding the right experts; - organizing interviews; — as a source of up-to-date news and contacts.

Announcement of the issue One way communication Discussion about press services in Russian scientific institutes: are they needed and what should they be like. Higher education - risks and opportunities Behind the noise from this year's Unified State Exam, the problem of transition to new state standards of higher education has gone almost unnoticed. discuss it Evgeny Sheval and Pavel Semenov - pp.

It's a headline for a reason. These are poems, by the way. “Tormented by sclerosis? Holes in your memory? Our mega-bottle guru will help!” This is what it says on the 280-milliliter mega-bottle, which contains a phenomenally tasteless, functional food product to enhance the placebo effect—a drink for intelligence. In general, the entire design of this bottle is a feast of the spirit. I just couldn't help but buy it.

In the Trinity version No. 74 I read the article by Academician V.E. Narukakova "Reform of the Academy of Sciences is inevitable." Vladimir Eliferyevich Nappyakov - an outstanding scientist, a specialist in the field of thermophysics and physical hydrodynamics. The scientific community also knows him from the articles of a journalistic nature belonging to him.

Corubo tribe dwellings (Peetsa/Arquivo CGIIRC-FUNAI) The jungle of the Amazonia, the greatest forest of the planet, from time to time present us with surprises. In 2008, photographs of the previously unknown Indian tribe, previously unknown from the plane, flew around. Talking about this discovery is still not subside. The tribe was discovered thanks to satellite images, they visible the meadow in the forest, and the spots of an incomprehensible shape were visible in the meadows. Isn't it home?

In 2011, Russian higher education is moving to a level system of training in accordance with federal state educational standards (FSES). Currently, the admission of students to study in educational programs developed on the basis of the standards of the previous generation is already prohibited. On September 1, today's applicants will begin studying in slightly different programs than those their predecessors studied in just a year ago.

NASA has published a new image sent by the Cassini space probe from the vicinity of the Saturn system. This image shows the satellite of the giant planet Titan, one of the main objects of study by Cassini. Titan's hazy disk appears to be dissected by a narrow line of Saturn's rings, which are in the foreground of the photo. The image was taken in May from a distance of more than 2 million kilometers.

In mid-June 2011, the Academy of Sciences announced the next elections to the RAS [1-3]. Candidates can be nominated for 82 vacant positions of academicians and 134 positions of corresponding members (of which 35 places must be filled by scientists who will be under 51 years of age at the time of elections). The elections will take place at the next General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which will be held in Moscow on December 21-22, 2011.

On June 15, 2011, the Tokai-to-Kamioka International Experiment announced the detection of 6 events that are candidates for electronic neutrinos. The data accumulated during the expression with a bunch of muon neutrinos from January 2010 to the earthquake in Japan March 11, 2011 for the first time received a direct experimental indication of the oscillation of muon neutrinos in electronic neutrinos were analyzed.

“ Look,” one said to the other, “there’s a wheel!” What do you think, if that wheel happened, would it get to Moscow or not?” “It will get there,” answered the other. - “But I don’t think he’ll get to Kazan?” “He won’t make it to Kazan,” answered another. That was the end of the conversation. N.V. Gogol, poem “Dead Souls”.