Sergey Belkov One of the most mysterious stories about the harm of GMOs is the confidence of some people that food genes can be built, give rise to amazing mutations that will not appear immediately, but will begin to work in the third or even fifth generation. This idea is so common that it is already becoming a plot line of science fiction novels, which, albeit very dubious quality, find their grateful fans.

Currently, there is an active campaign in the media to discredit the efforts of the scientific community and the Ministry of Education and Science aimed at combating the falsification of dissertations and the trafficking of academic degrees. This campaign is being carried out using unscrupulous methods and poses a serious danger to domestic science. The Society of Scientific Workers is extremely concerned about the current situation.

Andrey Zelevinsky On April 10, 2013, after a serious illness, a famous mathematician, a student of Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, professor at the faculty of mathematics of the North-East University (Boston, USA) Andrei Zelevinsky passed away. He was born in 1953. In 1965 he entered the famous “second school”, in which such outstanding mathematicians as E.B. Pyunkin and I.M. Gelfand, and the teacher of history was a famous literary critic, publicist and human rights activist A.A. Jacobson.

Dear editors! Last week I was thunderstruck by the news that Yuri Sergeevich Osipov was not going to compete again for the post of President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was as if the familiar world had collapsed: after all, it seemed to me that there were unshakable and eternal entities - the Sun was shining, it was getting warmer in the spring, and the Academy was headed by Yuri Sergeevich Osipov. And here it is.

Irina Levontina Terribly, terribly sad. Our beautiful Viktor Markovich Zhivov, a wonderful philologist and enlightener, a wonderful person who, to a ridiculous one corresponded to his surname-right as the hero of some play of the XVLLL century-is no longer with us. Us. It is described about his scientific works.

Last week, the nominations of candidates for president of the Russian Academy of Sciences at meetings of the bureaus of its branches were completed. This can be called the second stage: the first stage consists of self-nomination of candidates (only an academician can be a candidate). Five nominated: Zh.I.Alferov, E.N. Kablov, A.D. Nekipelov, Yu.S. Osipov, V.E. Fortov.

One of the important psychological consequences of the dissertation scandal was that it showed - in a form absolutely understandable to every citizen who studied in high school - what nonentities are trying to control us. Cheating has never been considered a great sin in Russia, but it has always been the lot of C students: excellent students decided for themselves, and poor students did not care.

Rebekah Frumkin Joyce Carol Outs (r. 1938) is a modern American writer, widely known in the world and very popular in the States. Our OUTS is not too famous, although several of her novels-for some reason not the best-are translated into Russian. I read OUTS, choosing from the Internet the texts of its not most popular works, so that, starting in the midst of unprecedented frosts, I read a dozen of her novels (in fact-more than 50) and several collections of stories to spring rains. What to say?

V.M. Anihov Many perceive this loss as personal, because Viktor Markovich was a beloved friend, attentive and generous for kindness and sympathy for us. In general, he is somehow not in a modern way-with curiosity and sympathy-he treated people, each person was interesting to him.

One of the most mysterious stories about the harm of GMOs is the belief of some people that genes from food can be integrated, giving rise to amazing mutations that do not appear immediately, but will begin to work in the third or even fifth generation.

AMS-02 on the ISS. From the site http://ams.nasa.gov Two weeks ago, the AMS collaboration finally released an article with scientific results. Her future exit was known in advance, and almost with great impatience than specialists in the physics of space rays, a community of theoretical physicists who are engaged in the search for dark matter was waiting for these results.

Andrey Rostovtsev Heraclitus, who lived 2500 years ago, is attributed to the saying of "eyes and ears - bad witnesses for those who have a barbar soul." Taking this opportunity, I want to try to convey to those who have not yet barbaric soul, and even to the “most stupid deputy”, who is “smarter than an average citizen” who accuses computer programs of what they should not do: any program cannot (and does not claim to be) to accuse anyone of plagiats.

The Russian team (see the TRV-Hunch No. 117 [1]) at the end of last week arrived in the United States and the beginning of a two-week stay at the Marsian deserted research station (Mars Desert Research Station) in the desert of Utah. The station was created by an American public organization - Marsian Society (Mars Society) and was opened in 2002 to simulate the Red Planet. For more than 10 years of MDRS, for the first time in this project, a completely Russian team participates in this project.

In connection with a wide discussion of the topic of dissertations and the “dissertation plagiarism” we publish an article by Vasily Leonov , Kand. tech. sciences, associate professor, editor of the biometric website ( www.biometrica.tomsk.ru ). Some of his theses seem controversial to the editors, however, in our opinion, they can become the subject of discussion, which is very important in this situation.

Well, let's start! Having reached the end of our history, we will know more than now. Hans Christian Andersen, "Snow Queen" Children listen to a lecture on protein modeling. Photo by the author Angelicly clear March day, the sun and snow -white snowdrifts. The broken school of the Soviet era in the near Moscow science city of Pushchino. Three hundred of different ages are worn along the corridors, rush between cabinets.