According to the newly published forecast of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the KNR expenses for scientific research in 2017 reached $ 400 billion, and by 2019 they will exceed similar US expenses. South Korea in 2012 became the world leader in the share of GDP, spent on research and development (4.36%), suppressing the first place of Israel (3.93%). At the same time, on average, in the OECD countries, this share is at 2.4%.

Alexander Skorokhod Is it possible to independently select DNA from an apple? What do human blood cells look like under a microscope? Why do transgenic mice shine in an ultravioletus? Scientists of Kyiv and Kharkov answered the above and many other questions during the days of science on November 8–9. And not academic, but giving the opportunity to consider, feel or make it ourselves, of course under the strict leadership of the demonstrators.

Genetics, evolution, and especially plant physiology are not my specialty, but I could not help but respond to the appearance of this book. Exactly fifty years ago, as an eighth-grader, I accidentally became acquainted with books and articles about Lysenko...

Vladimir Muronets, doct. Biol. Sciences, professor of Moscow State University Leo Zhivotovsky. Unknown Lysenko. M.: Partnership of the scientific publications of KMK, 2014. - 118 p. Genetics, evolution, and even more so the physiology of plants is not my specialty, but I could not help but respond to the appearance of this book.

Anna Muradova, Ph.D. Filol. sciences, Art. scientific. sore. Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Despite the Youth fashion for Celtic music and songs of Celtic peoples, even an advanced lover, first of all, first of all, are first of all, but not high poetry of Celtic peoples are known. Only the lazy Folker did not sang the Breton song about the sidra.

Rebekah Frumkin In search of a book about still life, I removed a low -format thin brochure from the shelf - a “pocket” guide to the 1955 Louvre - and was very surprised. On her cover, I found a color reproduction of a picture, the importance of which I learned recently. Of course, this illustration has repeatedly caught my eye, but I perceived it as an element of the cover - and nothing more.

The laureates of the Enlightener Award for the best popular science book of the year were the young scientific journalist Asya Kazantseva , who told us about the nonsense that we are forced to perform the brain, and the gray-haired historian Sergey Yarov , who told about the everyday life of the besieged Leningrad. The presentation ceremony was held on November 20 at the Russian Academic Youth Theater.

Alexander Markov, deputy. Dean of the Faculty of History of Art of the RSU, Vedas. scientific. sore. Moscow State University How many of your friends have read anti -liberal work, for example, Spengler 's Sunset ? And how much did Montesquieu’s “spirit ” of the laws or political works of Locke and Kant read ? It turns out that there is liberalism in Russia , but on bookshelves , and not in everyday speech.

Vyacheslav Vdovin, doct. physical. Sciences, Vedas. Scientific. sore. Institute applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences The Ministry of Education and Science on November 24 sent a set of documents under the professional standards of a scientist and teacher, which is expected to introduce in the near future. At the same time, almost as always, only a week is given for consideration of papers. The package, meanwhile, is quite capacious and serious.

While the main intrigue of the evening was not revealed, our newspaper became the winner of the special prize of the 2014 “Enlightenment” award. Before presenting the diploma “For faithful service to the cause of enlightenment” to its editor-in-chief Boris Stern, TV presenter, writer and co-chairman of the award’s organizing committee, Alexander Arkhangelsky, noted: “We live in a world of incompatible phenomena. There are two forces - science, scientists and media, journalism.

Today, there is an obvious tendency to make articles in foreign journals the main assessment indicators of domestic scientific activity, using various foreign indices of publication activity. Thus, we give the right to rate and evaluate us to foreign organizations, while completely agreeing with their methods, without even discussing this extremely important issue with the Russian scientific community.

Alexander Sergeev Pseudoscience is one of the regular topics of the Trinity Option, and she can’t see the end. The paradox is that in Russia, formally belonging to the modern civilized world, the forces producing pseudoscience are many times superior to those who confront it.

Announcement of the issue RAS Commission on Combating Pseudoscience: FAQ Witch hunt or a matter of education? — p. 2 Why is there no classical Russian liberalism? Philosopher Alexander Markov reflects - page 4 The cleaning of the Higher Attestation Commission turned out to be half-hearted Fisherman Kurdyukov fell for the Dissernet hook - page 5 Enlightener Award: report from the awards ceremony and discussion about the laureates - pp.

Sergey Bebchuk, director of the League of Schools No. 1199, and scientific journalist Natalya Ivanova-Gladilshchikov at a rally against the reorganization of schools on October 11 on Suvorovskaya Square Moscow. Photo by N.

Dear editors ! According to the results of the meeting of the Russian Union of rector, our national leader issued a list of instructions, indicating the direction of development and improvement of our higher education.