St. Petersburg University published a new book of our Columnist Professor Lev Klein called “The History of Archaeological Thought” in two volumes. This is the very history of world archeology. In Russia, such work is published for the first time. We publish a retelling of one of the chapters included in the book, which tells about excavations in Mesopotamia and the British archaeologist Leonard Wolly.

View> Home / Genesis of Science / Support idealists Support idealists August 02, 2011 TRV No. 84, p. 1, Boris Stern Category: Being of science 13 comments 2965 see, 14 - for today In St. Petersburg, a court will soon be held, which can be attributed to the category of “monkey processes” - ignorance against science.

African penguin Spheniscus demersus. Photo by Wikipedia Penguins are predators, they hunt fish under water, and very efficiently. How do these birds manage to quickly find prey? For a long time it was believed that the penguins feel poorly and should comb the ocean until they see the jamb of their favorite sardines or anchovies.

We discuss 10 astrophysical problems that can be expected to be solved in the next 10 years. These decisions can significantly change the picture of the world, both by adding to it and by rewriting some fragments.

Rice. M. Smagina A meeting of the dissertation council on June 29 at the Institute of Chemical Physics (IPHF) in Chernogolovka, one of the oldest and respected institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was overshadowed by an unprecedented scandal: right during the defense of the doctoral dissertation, he was accused of direct plagiarism and assignment of scientific data and removed his work from the defense before the voting results.

The chief researcher at the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Samokhin, shares his impressions of the V Cail Congress. We, people ... Klimovsky men, that is. A.P. Chekhov Denis Grigoryev, the character of the Chekhov story “The attacker”, due to his lack of education, did not imagine what the consequences of his actions to unscrew the nuts on the paths could be.

The most discussed law in the scientific community recently has been the procurement law (94-FZ). Two problems are especially painful for scientists. Firstly, the law complicated the process of purchasing reagents and equipment to support scientific research.

Spiral galaxy M81. Photo NASA A lot is said about the meaninglessness of home -made scientific theories. However, it must be admitted that unrestrained fantasy, combined with the lack of knowledge, sometimes give a result, which, with traditionally zero scientific value (at least for physics), only does not reach the literary text a little.

For ordinary people, summer is the time of vacations and freedom, for paleontologists - the time of field work. Even in the summer, scientific conferences of different varieties are usually held, since teachers and professors, together with students, are finally exempted from classes. With sufficient financing, the scientist can take part in two or three conferences on his own subject.

In connection with the press conference of three academicians about pseudoscience at the club of scientific journalists ( www.nauchnik.ru ), a discussion on the appropriate topic was flared up. With the permission of the authors, we publish its fragments. In general, the discussion was so voluminous that it is impossible to connect it in a coherent to illuminate it on the pages of the newspaper. However, many statements are interesting in themselves. The selection was prepared by B.Sh.

In St. Petersburg, a court will soon be held, which can be attributed to the category of “monkey processes” - ignorance against science. In this case, ignorance has several other forms than in classical monkey processes, but equally aggressively: the well-known Victor Petrik filed a lawsuit to protect honor and dignity to academicians Evgeny Aleksandrov, Vladimir Zakharov and Eduard Kruglyakov (see the TRV-HOWN No. 12 (81) of June 21, 2011).

View> Home / Genesis of Science / Support idealists Support idealists In St. Petersburg, a court will soon be held, which can be attributed to the category of “monkey processes” - ignorance against science. In this case, ignorance has several other forms than in classical monkey processes, but equally aggressively: the well-known Victor Petrik filed a lawsuit to protect honor and dignity to academicians Evgeny Aleksandrov, Vladimir Zakharov and Eduard Kruglyakov (see the TRV-HOWN No.

I have a file where I put topics for columns. Now I found this there: “Producer and editor, scientists and a rat skull.” I felt like Mayakovsky, who in his article “How to make poetry?” he told how he once woke up at night and in the dark, with a charred match, wrote down “a single leg” on the lid of a cigarette box, and in the morning he thought for a long time what kind of leg it was and how it got there.

Photo C. National Geographic Summer holidays are the usual time for school international olympiads. On July 27, 2011, Russian schoolchildren became winners at the World Geography Championship, held by National Geographic magazine. Competitions have been held since 1993, but our guys managed to win gold medals for the first time. The winning team included 16-year-old Alexander Bondarchuk and Maria Samoletov from St. Petersburg, Yegor Shustov from Slyudyanka.

Peter Petrov in Marburg, in front of the picture depicting the Marburg debate In early April, the Internet portal “Orthodoxy and Mir” published a large letter to the editorial office, entitled “Why am I not Orthodox?” ( www.pravmir.ru/pochemu-ya-ne-pravoslavnyj ). The author of this letter is Alexey Simonovich Kondrashov, a well -known specialist in evolutionary genetics, professor at the University of Michigan.