Snezhana Shabanova, Scientific journalist, psychologist In July of this year, it turned half a century to one of the most unethical experiments in the history of psychology - the experiment of Stanley Milgram, or Eichmann’s test related to the problem of submission to authority. The social psychologist, who worked at Yale University, proved that human actions often depend not on himself, but on the situation in which he finds himself.

Valery Platonov, Executive Director of the Higher University of Science and Technology at Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences The newspaper "Moscow News", which resumed its work in March 2011, paid attention to education. In particular, two notes related to students mobility appeared in it. The first note “why you need to study with the“ Germans ”” [1] was written by Igor Efimov, professor at the University of Washington in St.

In modern society, the problem of fathers and children has turned into a real brain abyss. With such a “term” American psychiatrists Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan in his book “Brain online. A person in the era of the Internet ”denotes differences in the ways of thinking of representatives of the older generation and youth caused by a digital revolution. The conflict of values ​​and views today is pushed to the background.

Rice. V. Bogorada The author of this commentary some time ago asked the question of the “health” and “naturalness” of nutrition, which was produced by the modern food industry, and, therefore, with the mandatory use of food additives. And he turned directly to the expert in this area, the head of the laboratory of food chemistry of the Research Institute of Nutrition of the RAMS Vladimir Bessonov. Then I remember one quote.

In the postal mailing of a club of scientific journalists (KNG), a rather stormy discussion was held, dedicated to the question of what they can, and what science-popular articles should not be in mass publications. It all started with the questions of the famous popularizer of mathematics Nikolai Andreev, surprised by one of the fresh scientific news, which appeared on a popular news site, but written in a completely popular language. We give some comments from this discussion.

Oil producing in the Turkish sector of the Black Sea by Moristhee G. Riza. Pictures Envisat 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008 (ESA) During the monitoring of the oil pollution of the Black Sea, another natural oil source was discovered, located in the Turkish sector 7 km from the shore.

Carlo Maria Chipollah is an Italian historian of the economy. During his life (died in 2000, at the age of 78), he wrote many thick scientific works, quite good, but universal fame brought him a thin treatise on the basic laws of human stupidity. As far as we know, this small masterpiece of Chipollah has not yet been translated into Russian.

If you arrive in Vladimir by train or bus, the first thing you will see from the station square is a magnificent white -stone building with five chapters, which grows on a hill. Before us is a twice unique monument to the dominoral architecture, an object of cultural heritage of UNESCO, the Assumption Cathedral. This is perhaps the only preserved building of the time that was built ... twice - and both times preserved.

space probe NASA's Cassini photographed Saturn's 53rd moon Aegeon. This tiny moon, just half a kilometer in size, was only discovered in 2008 (by Cassini itself) and was named after one of the three fifty-headed, hundred-armed children of Uranus and Gaia - the Hecatoncheires. Fans of the story “Monday Begins on Saturday” should remember him under the name Briareus. Aegeon is rarely captured by Cassini's lenses, so this image of the moon near Saturn's G ring is very valuable to researchers.

Articles in HTML: November 8, 2011 PDF: TrV No. 22 (91N) for 2011: Rally, science and prosecutors Announcement of the issue Rally, science and prosecutors (page 1) Evgeniy Onishchenko While scientists are demanding increased funding from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and meeting with parliamentarians, the Prosecutor General's Office is conducting checks there and discovering inappropriate spending...

Do you love the Cosmonautics News magazine? Do you love him as I love him? After all, this is the best magazine in the world! Maybe it was not worth starting an article dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the publication with such recognition? No, it was worth it - after all, this recognition is completely sincere! The magazine "Cosmonautics News" (abbreviated - NK) I have been reading for almost two decades.

Rice. I. Kiiko The wreckage of “progress” scattered along the taiga ”...-So one of the reports of the last major accident in the rocket and space industry began. However, with all the problems, the rocket and space industry has one important advantage: expensive accidents are too loud, they make dysfunction obvious. Therefore, irresponsibility and theft cannot continue endlessly without organizing and other unpleasant consequences.

Sergey Belkov, Flevorist, head Recently, on our television, programs have become very popular, in which journalists and invited guests are engaged in the study of food, their composition, utility and harmfulness. They give us, consumers, tips on what you can eat and what not, tell how to deal with violations of our consumer rights.

Skull of the oldest dog in Asia Studies of the International Scientific Group, which included S.N.S. Institute of Geology and Mineralogy. Sobolev SB RAS, doct. Geogr. Sciences Yaroslav Vsevolodovich Kuzmin , allowed us to clarify the dating of the skull of a dog found in a cave of a robber (Ust-Kansky district of the Republic of Gorny Altai). According to new data, this dog is the oldest in Asia: scientists believe that it is at least 33.5 thousand years old.

Rebekah Frumkin Sergei Arkadievich Ivanov, a well-known visantologist, graduate of Moscow State University in the Department of Classical Philology, professor and author of almost 200 scientific works, back in the 90s began to write essays on things - first for the magazine “Results”, then for “Daily Journal”. Later, these essays came out with a book, so that the Enlightener-2010 Award was already received by the second edition, partially processed.