If A. Osipov and B. Gongalsky's court hearing on November 22 ended with a fine of 10 thousand rubles, then the story of the accusation of Ilya Khudyakov and Alexander Mayevsky stretched until December. Let us remind you that the guys were detained on September 18, 2013 at about 18:00 near the State Duma during the “festivities” of scientists, which took place in the form of a meeting with deputies from the Communist Party faction.

L.L. Goshka : Denny, the very notorious question of feedback is understandable to me, moreover, the stability of the system significantly depends on the effectiveness of the functioning of these feedback. The only question is who and how should ensure the effectiveness of the functioning of these feedback?

View> Home / Science and Society / Reform in quotation marks Reform in quotation marks Save the article for reading offline: download pdf download epube The TRV-hobby continues to publish the answers of the “refuseniks”-members of the Academy of Sciences, who declared their disagreement to join the new “RAS” if the law is adopted in the form in which it was introduced in the first reading [1-2]. This is an interview - with a doct. physical mat.

The discussion around the “map of Russian science”, which was begun in the Trv-hunger No. 143, continues the polemic article by the doctor. physical. sciences, deputy. Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics. L.D. Landau RAS, Professor MIPT, member of the working group of the project “Corps of Experts” by Mikhail Feigelman .

In the last issue, when expressing criticism of the Map of Science, I tried to avoid discussing specific errors. However, these errors are so expressive that it is worth giving a couple of examples. Let's take my home Institute of the Earth's Crust SB RAS (Irkutsk). According to the Map, 327 scientists work there [1].

The TRV-hobby continues to publish the answers of the “refuseniks”-members of the Academy of Sciences, who declared their disagreement to join the new “RAS” if the law is adopted in the form in which it was introduced in the first reading [1-2]. This is an interview - with a doct. physical mat. sciences, member of the Russian Federation, G.N.S., head. Department of Physics of solid -state nanostructures, acting Head of the Department of Physics of the Solid Body of the Physical Institute. P.N.

To the New Year's number Konstantin Popadein , cand. Biol. Sciences, n. With. Department of Medical Genetics and Development of the Medical Department of Geneva University (Switzerland), n. With. Ippi RAS, prepared a report that, without a doubt, will help schoolchildren and graduate students decide on the choice of the only true profession - bioinformatics.

Anatoly Versik At the end of November 1962, at a birthday, I heard from the all-knowing Volodya Gerasimov (then known among the Youth Leningrad underground Erudite) a quote about the camp read by him. I remember that I did not believe that he really read them: the peak of camp themes had already passed, the recent Khrushchev’s puppies and throwing back the country returned to the socialist. Asked: "Where did you read it?" “In the newly released issue of the New World,” he answered.

On November 21, the solemn ceremony of presenting the Enlightener Prize took place. The 2013 laureates were Viktor Sonkin (for the book “Rome Was Here”) and Dmitry Zhukov (“Stop, Who’s Leading? Biology of Human Behavior and Other Animals”). The prize in the category “For the best biography” was received by the author of the book “Darwin” Maria Kuznetsova , writing under the pseudonym Maxim Chertanov.

On November 22, 2013, a hearing in the Tver Court was held on the Dokt's Affairs. Geol.-miner. Sciences of Bronislav Gongal and Cand. biologist. The sciences of Alexander Osipov, detained on September 25 during the "walk of scientists" at the Federation Council. Recall that on that day, by the building of the upper house of parliament, scientists protested against the adoption of the bill on the reform of the Academy of Sciences. After the detention of B. Gongalsky and A.

Irina Yakutenko Recently I spoke with a familiar doctor about vaccinations, and he said that some of them make no sense, because the vaccines have long been outdated and do not cope with modern pathogens. “But I will never say this to patients,” the interlocutor added, and I marveled at his wisdom. There is no typo in the previous sentence, I really wanted to write “wisdom”, and not “stupidity”, “meanness” or even “native”.

There is an opinion that the Dissernet community for the entire time of its existence has not been able to achieve serious, “tangible” results. Like, all the exposed ones remained during their degrees and at their posts, the issues of reputation still do not bother anyone, the successful work of Fedyukin’s commission (which actively used the achievements of future disserters) already managed to resign, etc. However, not everything here is unambiguous.

Dear editors! First of all, I want to congratulate the editorial office of my favorite newspaper and all colleagues on the upcoming series of Christmas and New Year's-native holidays! This, of course, is the best three weeks of the year, when the life of our people is getting better and begins to play with all the colors more than ever. Of course, some of the weakest elements are not able to make the continuous establishment of life under Olivier, but the world is so arranged.

(A.S. Pushkin. “Eugene Onegin”, Chapter 6, Art. XI) Members of the Society of Scientific Workers, researcher Institute of Biochemistry named after. A.N. Bach RAS Alexander Alexandrov and researcher Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Irina Saprykina talk about the discussion of the rules for monitoring and evaluating scientific institutions, which took place at the round table of the Ministry of Education and Science.

GAIA (ESA image) The outgoing year for astronomers ended on a major note. On December 19, Gaia's European satellite was successfully launched. This device is designed for high -precision astrometric measurements. For almost a billion stars, coordinates will be measured and, which is the main goal of the project, distance. Thus, a three -dimensional card of our galaxy will be received.