Alexander Safonov. Photo by I. Mikhailov On November 23, I happened to take part in the All -Russian Civil Forum “A next day for Russia” [1]. Plenary meetings, headed by Irina Yasina and Alexei Kudrin, encouraged participants to the “brainstorming”, tried to summarize some results, and the most important thing took place between the “plenaries”: several dozen “round tables” worked on this very agenda of the day for the whole country.

The quality of education directly depends on the level of teaching, the level of assessing knowledge and testing systems for this knowledge. Not all schools are equally useful - any teacher will tell you this in a personal conversation. Some educational institutions place emphasis on new pedagogical methods, others actively use multimedia tools in the teaching process, and others are somewhat conservative. The level of teachers themselves also varies significantly from school to school.

About the need to create a mechanism for an independent assessment of the quality of research and control of the sphere of research Boris Altshuler Boris Altshuler , S.N.S. Departments of Theoretical Physics Fian, member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, deputy.

Sergey Belkov Among the risks that are endowed with GMOs, their potential ability to harm health is most often remembered. It’s not about the tragicomic idea of ​​“embedding genes”, not about mysterious viruses that live in foreign genes, not even about the change in genes expression through microrm, but about an almost plausible idea that is found not only in the popular press, but also in statements of obscure people. We cannot predict what we get in the end that we get it in the end.

The climate is changing all the time, and this is more likely for the Earth as a normal state than something extraordinary. However, for humanity, any changes mean at least additional financial investments. In the worst case - disasters with human victims. So, for example, the vast majority of the world's population live in the coastal zone, and therefore depends on how the sea level will change, which, in turn, depends on the amount of ice on Earth.

46 million years ago, one mosquito, just drunk blood, drowned in a pond and was buried in bottom sediments. There he lay, petrified, until he got into the collection of the National Museum of Natural Sciences of the Smithsonian Institute at the USNM 559050 number. During this time, blood proteins in his stomach collapsed, but hemoglobin, which is associated with oxygen, has been preserved.

Top Ichilov is a modern clinic in Israel in the heart of Tel Aviv. Israeli medical centers have long been at the forefront of rankings of medical institutions around the world. This medical center was originally conceived as a national medical institution, however, due to the expansion of the medical center’s policy, applications are now accepted from patients from all over the world, including from the CIS countries.

Hygrobia Hermanni is an unusual beetle from the Paelobiidae family (reservoir), represented on the territory of the former USSR only with this species and only in Western Ukraine. According to the “data” of Adamyan, Hydrobia Hermanii is called, belongs to the Dytiscidae family (Podging) and is found in the Central Caucasus, where five copies were allegedly collected. Photo from Wikipedia (author Michael Munich) It is impossible to disagree with Mikhail Gelfand (the TRV-HOW No.

RRS and NS scientists need, first of all, normal, decent wages because now they have sunk to the social bottom, working practically for food; it’s strange that he doesn’t see this or doesn’t want to see

Marina Balueva The St. Petersburg journalist and writer Marina Balueva , who also teaches English at a school for children with disabilities with restrictions on the musculoskeletal system, devoted her article to the idea and the real embodiment of new educational standards. In Soviet times, there was such a grandiose project: to turn the flow of Siberian rivers in the opposite direction in order to irrigate arid places in Central Asia.

In November, the US Congress sent President Barack Obama to sign a bill that would remove the $30 million cap on how much the National Institutes of Health (NIH) can spend to care for chimpanzees previously used in federal research programs. as experimental animals. This way, NIH will not only be able to continue to care for the apes already living at the Chimp Haven federal sanctuary in Louisiana, but also retire 310 of its remaining 360 research chimpanzees there. A.K.

A. FRADKOV. Photo from the home archive One of the goals of the society of scientists is to force the power to hear the voice of scientists. From the moment of his birth, OHR began to establish contacts with the authorities, with the leadership of the Ministry of Education and Science, to propose measures and solve the problems of Russian science and Russian scientists, which have long been discussed in scientific forums. Sometimes something succeeded.

Under the rod of the messenger and rogue of Hermes in the Moscow Center for International Trade on November 23, the next All -Russian Civil Forum was held. Either the resounded, or voluntarily settled from Olympus, financier Alexei Kudrin briefly surrounded himself with the best minds and conscience of the era.

The other day, open testing of the “Map of Russian Science” (KRN) website began. This very expensive project has attracted close attention from scientists and caused a lot of controversy, but the main discussions are apparently still ahead.

Rice. M. Smagina Last two weeks, the Russian scientific community actively discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the “map of Russian science”. However, they hardly talked about virtues. We asked scientists who participated in the testing of the “maps” to express their opinion about this product.