Articles in HTML: 07/17/2012 PDF: TrV No. 14 (108N) for 2012: The horror of the summer calm Announcement of the issue The Horror of the Summer Calm (page 1) Maxim Borisov The editorial is dedicated to summer laws: on libel, on NGOs, on control over Internet sites... In general, about everything that makes our lives “better, more fun” again. Where are we? (p....

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...

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...

An attempt to jointly analyze sociological and statistical data “And we can - in s e! — but we lie to ourselves to reassure ourselves. It’s not “they” who are to blame for everything - us, only us! They will object: but you really can’t think of anything! Our mouths are gagged, they don’t listen to us, they don’t ask us. How can we get them to listen to us? It is impossible to convince them. It would be natural to re-elect them! — but there are no re-elections in our country.” A.I.

I have just read “Trinity Option” No. 99 - therefore, the next issue is the anniversary one. Wishes stem from observations, and the observations on number 99 are as follows: On pages 1–2 there is an important and clear message from Viktor Vasiliev about the latest threats to the remnants of good education in Russia; on pp. 6-12 very interesting materials are presented on the statistical analysis of the “elections” of March 4, 2012. There is a lot to learn and think about.

Communication with new people is a powerful source of learning about life. For example, today I was asked if I have a totem animal. I answered with the honest truth: “no, I’m a biologist, I don’t like animals.” But then I thought about it and realized that there was clearly one candidate for this role. It's a frog, and most likely a dead frog. Or, at least, a test subject. Dead frogs have haunted me my entire adult life.

The series of publications “10 facts about...” is continued by Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. Sciences, employee of Martin Luther University (Halle, Germany) Alexey Krushelnitsky. 1. Proteins are linear polymer molecules consisting of a sequence of amino acid residues. Although there are dozens of different amino acids in living nature and many of them can be part of proteins, the main ones are the twenty directly encoded in DNA (see paragraph 3).

We continue publishing a series of articles by flavorist and head of the food additives development department Sergei Belkov about popular myths about food and food products. Any substance contained in a plant is not formed just like that, it must serve some purpose. The functions of substances are obvious when it comes to proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins - components necessary for the functioning of the body.

The collection of signatures under the letter of scientists in the Council of the RFFI has begun. Its initiators are members of the recently created public organization - the Society of Scientists. Signatures are accepted until March 28, 2012 on the page http://goo.gl/cm8kq . Such a short period for collecting signatures is caused by the fact that on March 29 a meeting of the RFFI Council will be held, whose members will be transferred. At 21:00 on March 26, 600 people signed under the appeal.

Field notes from the USA For an anniversary number, a doct. Economy. Irina Dezhin , head of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, sent her notes on a business trip to the United States, in which the Russians studied the American experience of building a chain “Fundamental Science - Applied Science - Commercial Development”.

Are toilet cleanliness and per capita wine consumption associated with the quality of university education? Dr. thinks about this. physics and mathematics sciences, head Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics at ITEP Andrey Rostovtsev, who recently visited his alma mater.

There lived an old grandfather in the village, I gave myself advice. If you published a newspaper And you scold the authorities there And it, boiling with anger, Sends for you Take a fatty herring (You will have to open the door with your foot) And with a gift to the Orthodox Feel free to move towards him. And when in the office The rushed boss The last faint squeak will be made, Put on a kind face.

Vadim Gladyshev, Ph.D., professor at Harvard Medical School, reflects on science in Russia and abroad. Working in the USA, I was initially surprised that in this country few places provide for a mandatory retirement age for scientists. It is clear that no matter what your previous merits, mental and physical abilities decline with age, and even if you are the most honorable academician or a three-time Nobel laureate, this will not change the fact of aging and the processes accompanying it.

The Coordination Council of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists is extremely alarmed by information that has appeared in the media about the project to relocate the Military Medical Academy named after. CM. Kirov from the complex of buildings she occupied in the center of St. Petersburg to the outskirts of the city near the Gorskaya railway station.

The specialized educational and scientific center (SUNC) has been conducting its history since 1963, when several specialized physical and mathematical schools have been organized by decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Each of which was attached to a large university. So in Moscow, the famous FMS number 18 arose. Among the initiators of its creation was Academician A.N. Kolmogorov, and for a long time, and now, the school was known as the Kolmogorovo boarding school.