Why should I learn a foreign language if I can’t not only write, but also speak in my native language? This question is probably asked by many schoolchildren in our country, who have been taught it since the first grade. Is it good or bad? Most likely, the answer is positive, since the sooner a person learns to understand foreign speech, the easier it will be for him to remember it in the future.

It has long become a commonplace that science is an international profession and does not really take into account the presence of national borders. A just-published study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, USA) analyzed emigration and immigration flows of scientists based on a survey of more than 17 thousand scientists from 16 scientifically major countries who published scientific papers in biology, chemistry, and geosciences in 2011 and about the environment.

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...

When the Space Shuttle program ended about a year ago, America lost its own ability to send humans into space and became dependent on others to do so, i.e. from Russia. And this can be quite scary.

The first Russian Cansat championship was completed to create and launch school satellites, which took place from May 1 to 6, 2012 in Kaluga and the Kaluga Region (Grabtsevo airfield). "CanSat" is a youth competition for the development and creation of teaching satellite layouts that fit in a regular bank of 0.33 liters, hence the name of the competition from two English words: CAP- tin bank and SAT (Sokr. From Satellite ) - satellite.

“Trinity Option - Science” has repeatedly written about the problems that arise in botanical gardens and nurseries, whose lands are being tried to be seized for development, which obviously should lead to the destruction of unique collections. These stories end differently. Sometimes, as in the case of the nursery of the Pavlovsk station, created by N.I.

The world's cosmic community worried for the success of the first commercial spacecraft Dragon, which-after several transfers-on May 22, nevertheless started to the international space station on board the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. After entering the orbit, the ship maneuvered near the station for some time, then after checking all the systems-was seized with the station using the manipulator Canadarm 2.

Why should I learn a foreign language, if on my own, I can not so well not so well what to write, but also say? Such a question, probably, are asked by many schoolchildren of our country, who began to teach him from the first grade. Is it good or bad? Most likely, the answer is positive, since the sooner a person learn to understand foreign speech, the easier it will be for him to remember it in the future.

Articles in HTML: 06/19/2012 PDF: TrV No. 12 (106N) for 2012: Slogans or dialogue? Announcement of the issue Slogans or dialogue (page 1) The second editorial in a row is devoted to the possibility of dialogue between scientists and the ministry. This time, a specific initiative coming from the Society of Scientific Workers is being discussed...

Two months ago, the “Trinity Option - Science” put forward Sergei Spilkin to the Polit -Posvet Award for the series of articles on the statistical analysis of the results of the elections of recent years in Russia. The results of the competition were announced on May 31 in the Park of the Ostankino estate. Sergey won! Photo by O. Dmitrieva In addition to Spilkin, the finalists of the competition were Vladislav Inozemtsev, Dmitry Oreshkin, Nikolai Svanidze and Lilia Shevtsova .

There have been reports that Russia's two largest publishing houses, Eksmo and AST, are merging. We asked a number of editors and publishers to comment on this news. Ivan Okhapkin, New Scientist RU magazine, editor-in-chief The consumption of e-books is growing from year to year. On the other hand, people are reading less and less—alternative sources of information and entertainment are successfully competing for their attention.

A new government has been created. The Ministry of Education and Science received the new leader. The first interviews and statements by Dmitry Livanov show that new reforms of science in Russia are coming. Yes, apparently, further reform is necessary. But it is significant that such a reform can not rely simply on administrative decisions.

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...

Last week at the Physical Institute. Lebedev was held by a large international conference, bearing the name of Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg. The conference topics are as wide as the scientific interests of Vitaly Lazarevich: astrophysics, quantum gravity and cosmology, high energies physics, condensed media physics, quantum field theory, and suprastruna. The main organizer is the separation of Fian theoretical physics. Nina Ivanovna Ginzburg, the widow of Vitaly Lazarevich. Photo by S.

Bone flutes About 40 thousand years ago, the Origanak culture of people of a modern type - Cro -Magnons replaced the Mousterian culture of Neanderthals. The discussion about the exact time of its occurrence and the routes of distribution in Europe has been going on for many years. The problem is to correctly determine the age of objects that have laid in the ground for tens of thousands of years and contaminated with later layers.