In Moscow, the laureates of the Enlightener Prize are named The atmosphere at the Enlightener ceremony on November 24, 2011 was festive and unifying. Scientists, journalists, book publishers, having run away for several hours from their files, papers, affairs and bustle, gathered in a cozy theater center on a passionate in order to greet the laureates, and just talk.

There are two reasons for this note: the upcoming elections to the RAS and proposals from the recent speech by Vera Mysina, Chairman of the Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the consolidation of the structure of the RAS and on the number of academicians and corresponding members. On November 26, at 19:02 Moscow time, an Atlas V launch vehicle with the Mars Science Laboratory automatic research station launched from the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome.

Evgeny Aleksandrov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pseudoscience always accompanied science, and it is unlikely that this situation will ever change. Various varieties of pseudoscience, repeatedly exposed and ridiculed, are invariably revived in a raised form, as is clearly visible in the example of astrology. Raining in the properties of human nature, pseudoscience, apparently, is also fundamentally irresistible as crime or drug addiction.

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Announcement of the issue “I am a Moscow student, not Sharikov!” (page 1) The recent rallies and speeches at Moscow State University show that not all students are ready to put up with the arbitrariness of figures close to the leadership who arrogate to themselves the right to speak on behalf of the entire student body. True, the consequences of police actions are very different from what we see at the University of California at Davis...

Academician A.V. Gurebich, who has developed a breakdown theory on running electrons to explain the processes occurring during a thunderstorm. Check it, the Chibis should be checked. Photo by the author On November 2, 2011, the Progress M-13M cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station, on board of which the Chibis micro-tick is located among other goods.

Our newspaper turned to science fiction writer Boris Natanovich Strugatsky with a request to talk about how the realities of modern science are perceived through the prism of the story “Monday Begins on Saturday.” With the kind permission of the writer, we publish his response. — Tell me, how did you and your brother come up with this analogy about A- and U-scientists? And what would the main character of “Monday” advise us to do with our Academy of Sciences?

ANO "Research Center for the Prevention of Aging St. Andrew's Hospitals - NEBOLIT" and the Center for Russian Business in Europe invite doctors of all specialties to take part in the I All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference of Doctors of the New Generation on the Prevention of Aging "Directories of Aging: Modules of Prevention and Treatment", which will take place in Moscow on January 16-17, 2012 at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Announcement of the issue “I am a Moscow student, not Sharikov!” (page 1) The recent rallies and speeches at Moscow State University show that not all students are ready to put up with the arbitrariness of figures close to the leadership who arrogate to themselves the right to speak on behalf of the entire student body. True, the consequences of police actions are very different from what we see at the University of California at Davis...

Photo by K. Sturakovoi In early autumn, I was offered to participate in an interesting and new (in Russia) project - “Living Library”. You can find out about this project on the website of Humanlibrary.ru , but it can be briefly said that these are a series of meetings with people who are not celebrities, but whose experience can be interesting to many. I was invited to participate as a “living book”-a chemical scientist. I almost immediately agreed.

The search for petals has begun On November 15 and 23, RadioAstron tests began in the mode of a ground-space interferometer - searching for petals, i.e. obtaining the first correlation between signals from space and ground-based radio telescopes. Both sessions at a wavelength of 18 cm were successful. Scientific data from the space radio telescope were recorded at a tracking and information collection station in the city of Pushchino, Moscow region.

The sociological community is buzzing. On April 21, 2011, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced the holding of the Third Sociological Congress in Moscow in February 2012 [1]. Sociologists threw up their hands in bewilderment, because the Third Congress had already taken place in October 2008, and at its opening, by the way, a greeting from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was read out [2].

Dear colleagues! I want to join the discussion of homeopathy in your newspaper and add something to the note “The Word of the Glavred” by Boris Stern (TRV-Nauk No. 67, November 23, 2010). Rice. I. Kiiko How is 100-fold dilution really achieved? Suppose there is an initial solution, say an extract from the liver of a wild duck, containing 1 g of acting (this term in pharmacology is a component of the mixture responsible for a particular biological effect of this mixture) in 100 ml of solution.

On Monday, November 14, a press conference of scientists was held, at which they briefly summed up the results of the protest rally that took place a month ago (see TrV-Nauka, No. 90, 10.25.2011). The results are disappointing: at the moment, the situation with the allocation of funds for science has not changed, except for the promises of several deputies to contribute and try.

On November 16 , a seminar organized by the Skolkovo Open University and the Skolkovo information technology cluster was held at the Center for International Trade. The topic was quite relevant for Russia: “IT in education. Education in it ”[1]. Despite the fact that the theme of the seminar implied education as a whole, most of the speakers devoted their speeches to school education. The question of postgraduate education was actually hung in the air. And this is explainable.