Vladimir Filippov We talked about what tasks are facing the highest certification commission . ​ physical .- Mat. sciences, chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission, rector of RUDN, Vladimir Filippov . Talked by Natalia Demina . - Vladimir Mikhailovich , let's imagine for a minute that there is no scientific certification system in Russia , and you create it from scratch . What do you see it for yourself ? What should it be ?

Birds live on all latitudes and on all continents. The discussion of their rapid evolution and amazing diversity lasts almost a century. Specialists have repeatedly built a phylogenetic tree of birds on the basis of the features of their anatomy, behavior and comparison of individual genes. The results, however, turned out to be contradictory. The situation has changed when researchers have the opportunity to quickly secure whole genomes.

Daria Lebedeva In a series of books issued by the State Historical Public Library for the centenary of the First World War, there are two, affecting especially sharp topics. The memoirs of Julia Kirsch make it possible to learn about the long stay in German captivity and feel the mood of people of the lowest status in this war, as well as an unprecedented rise in the spirit associated with the revolution, from which “first of all was waiting for the world”, which means returning home.

The novel of the overwhelmers We talked about the new scientific and educational project “Lecture of Education: Kurilka Gutenberg” with one of its creators, Roman Perekhobschikov . Talked by Natalia Demina . - What is the "chicken of Gutenberg"? -“Gutenberg’s smoking room” is a popular science project that, in 2014, has become, according to our data, the most visited non-profit lecture in Moscow. - Who is its organizers?

Announcement of the issue Dissertations and reputations Scientists on the need to abolish the statute of limitations for fake dissertations - pp. 1–3, 5 “Tighten the screws and the foam will go away” Head of the Higher Attestation Commission, rector of RUDN University Vladimir Filippov on the present and future of scientific certification in Russia - pp. 4–5 Brown dwarfs - who are they?

Valery Soifer and George Soros (right). Photo from the site http://lebed.com ISSEP program ( International Soros Science Education Program) started two decades ago and in detail with a large number of numbers and facts described in the literature ( primarily in the Sorosov Educational Journal and in the book of the program manager - Professor Valery Soifer " Intellectual Elite and Philanthropy . The Educational Program ” ( DDF Foundyshn , 2005 ) .

Andrey Zasakin, sotr. lab. 170 ITEF (mathematical physics) On January 19, 2015, the State Duma Committee on Science and Hero -intensive technologies voted for the draft law, which eliminates the contradiction between the Civil Code and the Regulation on academic degrees.

A three-hobby turned to the teacher of mathematics of the intellectual school Alexei Sibnev and Professor, Dokt. East. Sciences Lev Klein with a request to think about how much the school textbook is evolved in ten years. We publish their forecasts and wishes. The evolution of the textbook It is impossible to read! The text is written without indentation, there is no syntax backlight, and the names of the heroes do not correspond to their functions.

Dmitry Vibe, doct. physical. sciences, head. Department of Physics and Evolution of Stars of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences The greatest astronomer William Gershel, creating the first map of our galaxy in the XVIII century, suggested that all the stars are the same, and the differences in their visible brilliance were associated exclusively with different remoteness from the sun.

A. Tsaturyan, M. Danilov. Photo by N. Demina On January 23, 2015, the State Duma of Voices of Deputies from United Russia failed a bill on the statute of limitations for false dissertations. 179 deputies of parliament (39.8%) spoke in support of the law, but most, 270 people (60%), simply did not vote (about this in more detail, see page 7).

Korinna Kostyukova, ml. scientific. sore. Department of Innovation and Science IMEMO RAS In 2014, the scientific community of Japan was shocked by a loud scandal associated with the deprivation of a doctoral degree. The head of the research unit at the Center for Development Biology at the famous Japanese Institute of Riken, the Kharuko turnover was accused of falsifying and frauds presented in its doctoral data regarding the creation of methods of recruiting cells.

Question from TrV-Nauka: “What do they do with dissertations in France if they contain plagiarism?” — puzzled me, because I myself had not heard of cases of plagiarism in the natural sciences. My French colleagues could not clarify this issue: two did not know such examples, and two more heard something, but could not remember and advised me to look on the Internet.

In the last week of November 2014, the Toronto University ( Canada) was held by the conference "Heritage of Vladimir Arnold" dedicated to a wide variety of mathematics. A graduate of the physical faculty of Moscow State University Daria Morgacheva visited the scientific- popular report of the Hungarian mathematician Gabor Domokosh , the inventor of an elegant mathematical object called “Gömbets”- and asked several questions.

In TrV-Nauka No. 149 dated March 11, 2014 in the article “MSU and dissergate. Part II”, two textually similar dissertations by V.Yu. were mentioned. Soldatenkova, in sociology and economics. The editors received an explanation from Vadim Yuryevich, which we are publishing with minor editorial abbreviations. Initially, I defended my defense at the sociological faculty of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov.

The number of scientists is growing unevenly According to the latest report from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Science, the number of scientific workers in the country increased by 22% over 10 years (2001-2011). This equates to growth of 3.4% per annum on average, compared with 2.4% in Germany, 4.0% in the UK, 1.3% in the US and just 0.1% in Japan.