Announcement of the issue National failure and/or state nonsense? The pursuit of Unified State Exam results is another step into the abyss - pp.

The editorial office of the TRV-hunger came from a letter from the professor of medicine Ernst Galimovich Ulumbekov regarding the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences. We are pleased to publish this letter with minimal editors, especially since it consists almost completely of the lines of Saltykov-Shchedrin, which is not the first time the foresight of what has been happening in Russia for centuries is attributed.

Irina Levontina When there is some kind of socially significant event, it is very important under what headline it will be registered in the minds of the people. Details of the event, circumstances, the sequence of episodes, reasoning about its causes, driving forces and results - all this is not delayed in the memory of most people. And the name remains. Ask passers -by on the street now, do they know what the Orange Revolution is, and they will confidently say: we know, they say.

Svetlana Zerenes On September 24-26, 2013, Moscow again collected editors of scientific publications at a conference on the problems of promoting Russian magazines in the international scientific and information space.

Vladimir Surdin. Photo by N. Demina The announcement of the finalists of the Enlightener Award 2013 was not without a surprise, and this time the jury became its authors. “For the first time, the jury decided to reduce the list in one of the nominations - natural science to 3, considering that this year the general level of books. It turned out to be lower than in past years.

Anatoly Versik In Russia, it is time to create a wide movement “In defense of education and science”. Science, perhaps, now more than education needs to be defended - after that unprecedented attack on it, which the power began with all its “branches” this summer and successfully ends now, bringing to the complete destruction of the enemy. Do not believe that it was just the reform of the academies, such reforms are prepared and carried out differently.

A group of American astronomers led by Eric E. Mamajek ( www.pas.rochester.edu/~emamajek/ ) from the University of Rochester again managed to draw attention to one of the brightest stars in the earth's sky - Alpha Pisces Southern, called Fomalhaut ( translated from Arabic as “mouth of a whale”). Fomalhaut is young by stellar standards (440 million years), located 25 light years from Earth, approximately twice the size and mass of the Sun, but its luminosity is 16 times faster than the Sun.

Sergey Belkov There is nothing mysterious in the sense of smell. The modern representative of the genus Homo is a happy owner of about 350 working varieties of olfactory receptors. Each smelling substance can interact with one or more receptor. Each receptor is able to interact with many substances. Each smell is a mixture of substances.

Peter Arsev The adopted law on the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences is mistakenly believed in the law, which should determine how the work of the aggregate of institutions and those 50 thousand researchers, which the Academy itself composed, will be changed. In fact, this whole 30-page law consists of verbal husk, which is only about what the “club” of 2-3 thousand members of the Academy will be “club”, who will go there and how.

Mikhail Rodkin The style of the adoption of the Law on Science - an indecent haste for the adoption of the law, forgery, vulgar substitutions in the regulations - causes surprise, if not disgust. Style of thimble and shuler. It may be the impression that the highest state authorities dance under the pipe of several frank crooks.

Dear editors! A holy place is never empty, as they say. This old truth is especially true in relation to places of leadership and direction. Yes, in fact, only such places should be considered holy. And last week, another such position appeared - the post of head of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations. Of course, the Agency is still empty: it has neither chief executives, nor subordinate organizations, nor financial flows that need to be distributed for the benefit of the people.

Rebekah Frumkina A year ago, the famous Russian literary scholar Elena Nikolaevna Dryzhakova, who has lived in the United States for a long time, and the Pushkin House publishing house published the book “The Diary of My Grandmother S.V. Dryzhakova. 1900-1943" (St. Petersburg, 2012, 720 pp.). The diary of Sofia Vasilyevna Dryzhakova (1872-1943), the daughter of a Kursk gymnasium teacher, the wife of a district doctor and the mother of four sons, covers the period from 1900 to 1943.

The Science Council under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Council) familiarized itself with the “Recommendations for changing approaches to the publication of the main scientific results of dissertations for an academic degree (road map)” ( http://minobrnauki.rf/documents/3556 ) ( (hereinafter - Recommendations).

Alexey Sibnev About how the existing system of passing the unified state exam in teaching children is affected is reflected by Kand. physical mat. Sciences, head of the department of mathematics of the boarding school "Intellectual" Alexei Sibnev . The other day I participated in the record of the program about teachers. From the hall they asked a question about the law prohibiting the teacher to work as a person who committed an immoral act.

Alexey Vodovozov Imagine that you are a successful scientist, work at Boston, at the Dana-Faber Institute, study adipokins-special proteins that are formed in adipose tissue and regulate the exchange of carbohydrates and fats, participate in inflammatory reactions and, in connection with this, may matter for the treatment of metabolic and diabetes.