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 presidential elections have added material for statistical research (see articles dedicated to the Duma elections on December 4, 2011, in the TRV No. 94, 96, 98). Briefly about some interesting moments of past elections - in this article of independent expert Sergei Spilkin. The return of Moscow Let's start with the good.

As we all know, on March 4, 2012, an online broadcast was organized from many polling stations throughout Russia. As experts have calculated, one person will be able to view recordings from all of them if he continuously monitors what is happening for 500 years.

The beginning of the new electoral cycle of 2011-2012 was marked by the growth of protest sentiments in Russian society caused by numerous revelations of electoral falsifications. The accusations that sounded at the authorities were supported by a large number of various evidence of violations in the form of protocols, eyewitnesses of eyewitnesses and statistical analysis of electoral data.

On January 24, 2012, the first conference of the Russian Association of Assistance to Science (Rashan) was held in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. We publish several performances at this forum. Lev Yakovlevich Borkin, zoologist, expert in the field of evolutionary genetics of animals, chairman of the board of St.

There is a belief about linguists: these people may not know a single language except their own, but speak any. In February 2012, any person who found himself in Moscow could experience this condition-the sixth International Language Festival, which has been organizing the Moscow Youth Esperanto Club for several years in a row. To sing in Irish, write in Arabic letters and listen to the incredible speech of the Circassians, consisting of almost one consonants.

When the state of domestic science is discussed at any level - in smoking rooms, on Internet forums, at round tables, everyone unanimously notes its deplorable state, and no significant differences in its assessment are observed. When it comes to ways out of this situation, it turns out that there are many opinions, sometimes diametrically opposed, since the participants in the discussions have different understandings of the tasks of science and look at the processes from different angles.

“...And also in the field of webcams we are ahead of the rest” As we all know, on March 4, 2012, an online broadcast was organized from many polling stations throughout Russia. As experts have calculated, one person will be able to view recordings from all of them if he continuously monitors what is happening for 500 years. about the technical intricacies of this project .

Dedicated to the memory of Anna Gorelysheva, teacher of physics and astronomy, system administrator, head of the laboratory of the Cosmonaut Training Center, stalker, my friend. Nowadays, it is difficult to find a children's book for primary school age, in a bright artistic form, that simply and captivatingly tells about the Earth, the Solar system, the Universe and the mysteries of physics.

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...

Let's play a children's game and imagine ourselves as aliens from the distant planet Chi-2, who are not at all interested in our funny political passions. And let these “hidvams” be given 100 thousand tablets with unfamiliar words and numbers and ask them to figure out these numbers: did they arise on their own, or were they “a little invented”?

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...

More than a hundred years ago in Ukraine, in Pox, in the village of Martynovka, a treasure of silver products was discovered - 116 things. Among them, 4 figures of the men, as it were, in the dance - the legs, the arms “into the sides” - and five figures of animals with a mane - either horses, or legs with hooves, but there is no horse tail (lion's tail) and a large mouth is opened.

Alexey Elyashevich, Chairman of the Council of St. Petersburg Department of Rasn, Dokt. physical mat. Sciences, professor of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University talks about the goals of the new organization. At the beginning of this year, with an interval of exactly one month in Moscow, two events occurred, which can give an impetus to a noticeable activation of the scientific community.

There are very different reasons for meetings. This time, scientific journalists from Russia and Germany gathered in the same hall during the forum “Scientific Journalism: Features of the Profession and the Possibility of Education”, which took place on March 5, 2012 as part of the Popular Science project. This is the second of the three events organized by the German cultural center. Goethe ( www.goethe.de/moskau ) during the year of Germany in Russia. Sergei Popov talks about his impressions.