Figure 1. Belemnites-extinct mollusks (http: //img-fotki.yandex.ru.jpg) One of the main principles of geological research - the principle of actualism, formulated by James Hatton back in 1795, says that the processes on Earth today and in the deep past took place the same way. By and large, this is true. For example, mountains grow along the boundaries of tectonic plates, rivers run down them down, destroying their shores, the material from the continents thus enters the oceans.

Approaches on November 15 - the day when we recognize the names of the laureates of the Enlightener Award 2012. However, while the enlightener's day has not yet come, readers have the opportunity to carefully evaluate each book from short lists. Two books on astronomy were published in the final of the 2012 Awards in 2012 at once. One of them belongs to the pen of Vladimir Georgievich Surdin, a senior researcher at the State Astronomical Institute named after PC.

Rice. V. Alexandrova Remember, in the 90s there were announcements on TV: “Every Saturday in June you watch“ What? Where? When?" For a person associated with scientific journalism, the same announcement sounds in the head in the fall: "Six days in October award Nobel Prizes." For a scientific journalist, a newborn, the first three out of six days traditionally turn into a pretty hell.

Dear editors ! The great philosopher Socrates said that he knows that he knew nothing. He was an example of true wisdom, a man who understood the extreme limitation of his knowledge of the world. Unlike, unfortunately, many of us teachers and scientists. Having received a higher education, we often believe that we can weightfully and reasonably judge everything and neglect with neglect of things that the best minds of mankind thought for hundreds of years.

Discussions about the place of Russian universities among other universities in the world do not subside. The doct shared his thoughts on this subject from the TRV-HOW. physical. sciences, head. Laboratory of physics of elementary particles of ITEF Andrei Rostovtsev . On October 3, 2012, the British edition of Times Higher Education published the results of a global study and the top-200 universities rating of the world-The (Times Higher Education World University Rankings) [1].

about creating in Russia its own independent ranking of universities has thought The rector Moscow State University of . M. _ IN . Lomonosov Victor Sadovnichy . In his opinion , headquarters the rating of such a should be in Moscow . He also believes that _ in creating the rating media should involved leading get . this Nezavisimaya The rector of Moscow State University stated in an interview with Gazeta [ 1].

Global Energy" is preparing a scientific revolution: in the tenth year of the prize, the world's leading scientists will discuss in Moscow the prospects for creating a perpetual motion machine (!) ( www.globalenergyprize.org/ru/menu/33/news/619 ) October 25 at 12:15 in Moscow, For the first time in history, all the Global Energy Prize laureates will gather at the WTC on one site.

Sergey Belkov What will you do if you have a product that no one needs, but which needs to be sold? The answer is obvious: you need to create a demand. It has long been known that the best seller is fear, you can always sell more on it than in science. Verkillery sellers of 50 thousand rubles. They come up with heart -rending stories about terrible ticks living everywhere, selling their miracle of technology as a medicine.

On October 15, 2012, by order of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a new Council for Grants of the Government of the Russian Federation was approved [1]. It included 19 people. Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov and his deputy Igor Fedyukin , members of the Council, will serve as chairman and deputy chairman. The Ministry of Education and Science will also be represented by Evgeniy Ugrinovich , director of the International Department of this department.

A patriot's dream has come true! Finally, we will have our own ranking of universities that truly corresponds to the national flavor! According to the executive director of the Association of Leading Universities of the country, and concurrently the vice-rector of St.

Rebekah Frumkin Who and why reads the biography of Lenin today? Perhaps this question should be reformed as follows: who should read the publicly written biography of Lenin? I think to many; Youth - first of all. But even those whose ideas about Lenin and two Russian revolutions of 1917 are reduced to the horrors of war, hunger, devastation and total violence - not only the Cheka, but in general a “man with a gun”.

I regularly meet the opinion that the scientific picture of the world deprives him of miracles. By virtue of this, mainly she will never conquer the mind of most people. The human psyche is inherent in bewitching outlandish stories, and science selects them from us. Such a reasoning at first glance looks plausible, but I will try to object to it. First of all, I do not agree with the initial package.

To the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation To the Government of the Russian Federation To the Presidential Council on Science and Education To the State Duma Committee on Education To the State Duma Committee on Science and High Technologies Appeal “on the need increase base salaries staff of teaching the , researchers to and technical staff of state universities” Recently, the leadership of the Russian Federation has proclaimed a number of ambitious goals - modernization,

Past Chernogolovka's past was, frankly speaking, remarkable. The Moscow Region academic town was created 56 years ago on the initiative of the Nobel laureate in chemistry, academician N.N. Semenov and corresponding member F.I. Dubovitsky, who not only invested their souls in Chernogolovka, but also showed themselves to be excellent managers.

Due to his dissertation written 25 years ago, the Minister of Education of Germany fell under the fire of criticism. Photo from the site augsburger-allgemeine.de It seems that only recently the scandal with plagiarism, found in the dissertation of the Minister of Defense of Germany, Tsu Guttenberg (Karl-Theodor Freiherr Zu Guttenberg), because of which the young and popular politician was forced to resign and forget about the political career [1].