Articles in HTML: 05/08/2012 PDF: TrV No. 9 (103N) for 2012: Why is science needed in Russia? Announcement of the issue Save ITEP: up the stairs leading...? The chronicle of events at the country's most important physics institute is analyzed by Andrey Rostovtsev - page 3 A tool not for cracking nuts What the Unified State Exam can and should not be, using the example...

Recently, in connection with the crash of the Costa Concordia, which again brought to mind the circumstances of the recent crash of the Bulgaria, the word negligence is constantly heard. And in roughly the following contexts: How does Italian/European negligence differ from Russian sloppiness/Russian “maybe”?

The Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics found itself in a difficult situation several years ago in connection with the transition to Rosatom. Then, by government decree, ITEP was merged with the Kurchatov Institute - but the situation only worsened. More than a year ago, a new director was appointed from the Kurchatov Institute, intended to “drag and not let go.” The institute staff grumbled; we covered what was happening as best we could (see TrV-Science No. 71).

Announcement of the issue Communication crisis (page 1) Sergey Popov Several materials in this issue are in one way or another related to the problem of the relationship between science and government in different countries. Therefore, it begins with a note in which a certain crisis in communication between scientists and high officials is stated, largely due to the fact that science (and not only) is not led by those with whom researchers could establish a productive dialogue.

In the issue of the newspaper before last, I shared in my opinion column my thoughts about scientists as a social group and expressed the idea of ​​the need for a special party of scientists. Responses to this note raised the question of whether such a party is needed in the current circumstances.

Articles in HTML: 05/08/2012 PDF: TrV No. 9 (103N) for 2012: Why is science needed in Russia? Announcement of the issue Save ITEP: up the stairs leading...? The chronicle of events at the country's most important physics institute is analyzed by Andrey Rostovtsev - page 3 A tool not for cracking nuts What the Unified State Exam can and should not be, using the example...

Rice. V. Bogorada The impossibility of constructive dialogue with the authorities, the inability to convey by other methods their opinion so that it was heard and perceived that it can be calmly discussed at the table of negotiations with reasonable hope for reasonable agreements can be calm to the rallies of people. The demonstration is an attempt to shout when calm voices were not heard. However, demonstrations are an episode, and politics is a process.

The pages of your newspaper claim that in the situation with Kazheva everything was done correctly and the situation was covered objectively. A fundamentally incorrect statement. There was a one-sided presentation of facts, the interpretation of which was tendentious. In some cases, there was speculation and just fantasy. If the court did not render a guilty verdict, this does not mean that there was no slander, but that there was plagiarism.

In continuation of the topic raised by Lev Klein in TrV-Nauka No. 25 (94) for 2011, I would like to propose an article on the need for a new party of scientists and university workers (as well as the need for new parties in today's politics). Unlike L. Klein, I propose, as it seems to me, a different point of view on the same problem with a general message. The current political situation is remarkable for its uncertainty.

Articles in HTML: 01/29/2013 PDF: TrV No. 2 (121N) for 2013: Two cultures, or Devastation in the minds Two cultures or devastation in our heads (editorial). Page 1Sergey Popov “Lectures are our duty” K. Severinov, V. Surdin, A. Oganov, Dm. answer questions from N. Demina and S. Popov. Wiebe, M. Krongauz and T. Chernigovskaya. Page 2-3 Economics...

The TRV-HO-NAUKA is regularly writes about the Radio Astron project, and this is not surprising-the first successful Russian astrophysical project over the years has become the main source of good news about space science. In No. 93 of December 6, 2011, we reported that the Radio Astro group began the search for interference “petals”-peaks of the correlation of the signal from the space radio telescope at ground-space bases.

Highlighting the main discoveries of 2011, Nature magazine put in the first place the detection of the dynamic effect of Casimir (see the full list in [1]). The results of the study were published in the article [2]. Below are a dozen main facts regarding this significant scientific work. 1. The dynamic effect of Casimir is the emission of electromagnetic waves with a moving mirror (or other object). Image: Wikipedia 2.

On September 13, 2011, the Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bakman mentioned the MSNBC channel live about how, after the debate, a woman came up to her and said that her daughter became mentally enthusiastically after vaccination from the papalloma virus. This story was used to attack another republican candidate, Texas governor Rick Perry, who in 2007 signed a law on mandatory vaccination against this virus of all girls aged 11-12 years.

Biochemists from Kazan Federal University under the leadership of the senior teacher of the Department of Microbiology, Dokt. Biol. Sciences Ravil Fahrullin took another step in the development of “cell therapy” - treatment by introducing ordinary or stem cells into the human body. They developed a method of applying magnetic tags to the introduced cells, which then allowed to move them to the human body. The work was published in the Langmuir journal of the American Chemical Society [1].

This text is not an attempt to open your eyes, not an ultimatum, not a petition, and not even a cry from the heart. This is a spell, a mantra, which, out of hopelessness and impotent anger, a person clenches his teeth and repeats to himself, just so as not to turn into an animal.