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.

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.

Irina Yakutenko Humanity has always dreamed of finding a remedy that returning youth, but until recently, young apples, as well as potions and elixirs, turning back the time, existed only in fairy tales. In 2012, the Nobel Committee awarded the Physiology and Medicine Award to two scientists who came up with a method that allows not only to throw off for several years, but to return to the embryonic state.

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.

On the evening of October 16, the Kommersant correspondent called me and asked the question: what do you think about the establishment of the Department of Theology in MEFI? I lost my speech from amazement and was able to squeeze out of myself only a couple of connected sentences, which, however, were replicated. I'll try to speak more intelligently. First of all, this is a disgrace. Theology not only has nothing to do with science, but is, in a sense, its opposite.

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].

I received the news about the opening of the Department of Theology at MEPhI with some bewilderment. Not because “religion and science are incompatible”, etc., in any case, they are no worse compatible than science and scientific communism/atheism, which we all were taught forcibly in Soviet universities.

Leonid Petrovich Grishchuk IN night on September 13 , 2012 V University Hospital G . Cardiff ( Wales ), after a short diseases Left from life outstanding specialist By OT And gravitational waves , graduate of 1964 departments astronomy Physics faculty Moscow State University Leonid Petrovich Grishchuk . Starting from his student years, Grishchuk was fond of various aspects of cosmology and coursework and a diploma wrote to the famous Cosmologist A.L.

Andrey Bremrezen October 15 , 2012 Nobel Committee T announced that Prize By economy Got American scientists Elvin Mouth ( Alvin Roth ) from Harvard University And Lloyd Shepli ( Lloyd Shapley ) from California University USA . Achievements both laureates For TRV - science Commented Kand . Econ . sciences , graduate MIT , professor of economics Russian economic schools , expert V areas Theories games And experimental economy Andrey Brerezen .

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If US presidential elections were held only among American Nobel scientific laureates, Barack Obama would already have won a landslide victory. Sixty-eight Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, and medicine recently wrote an open letter to the American public calling on them to support Democratic candidate and current President Barack Obama in his election battle with Republican Mitt Romney.

Dmitry Vibe Probably, in one form or another, any person who decided to popularize astronomy came across this: in order to convey the right thought to an unprepared audience, the story has to start very from afar. Indeed, how can you explain the structure of spiral sleeves to a person who does not know what the galaxy is? And the conversation about the galaxy immediately and inevitably leads to ancient Greek mythology. The very historical approach seems as true as possible to me.

Heterosigma akashiwo microscopic algae (http://en.wikipedia.org) Oceanographers from the Higher School of Oceanography of the University of Rhinod (USA) for the first time observed the behavior of avoiding predator in microscopic seaweed ( Heterosigma Akashiwo ) . The article appeared in the September issue of PLOS magazine One .