Photo with an anniversary presentation prepared by Iya's employees The other day, Valery Rubakov was 60 years old. Perhaps the most expressive commentary in Facebook on this occasion: “It is good that only 60!” Why I highlight this particular comment, I will say at the end, but for now a little general information.

March 1, 2015. Photo by Evgeny Feldman Should the newspaper produced by scientists and scientific journalists avoid political coloring with all their might? Even when the country is shaken by convulsions? We already had several cases when potential authors wrote us angry replicas like “Take your dolls, give my rags” after publishing politically colored materials.

Alexander Daniel , scientific. sore. Society "Memorial": For more than forty years, Sergey Kovalev has been weightily present in my life - and I feel this presence as one of the biggest successes. We are friends, argue, cursing, from time to time we have been working together for four decades. Kovalev is one of those rare and absolutely necessary for us all people, who are always, in any circumstances and under all vital and downs, equal to themselves.

Photo by Sergey Kovalev Wulf Shifenhevela ( Wulf Schievenh öh ) can be safely called the master of German evolutionary and anthropological medicine. Among other things, his research changed the obstetric care procedure in Western countries, the attitude to breastfeeding . He came to Russia at the invitation of Novosibirsk State University.

But I don’t remember how I met Borya. I remember so much of what happened next, but no, I can’t remember this. Somehow he gradually came into my life. We were the same age and both studied at the radio department of GSU, even though I was a year earlier...

Dangerous comparisons Lev Klein In Soviet times, it was not permissible for us to compare peoples by abilities and achievements: internationalism demanded to equalize them. This ban was a certain predecessor of modern Western political correctness, which has virtues and disadvantages. The war unleashed languages ​​in relation to the Germans - they had a lot of natural shortcomings, but not for long. But the Russians have opened a lot of advantages and advantages - and this is firm.

Rebekah Frumkin While I was thinking about the film by Pavlikovsky “Ida” ( TRV-HOWN No. 173 ), he received an Oscars. And then I decided to see why in 2015 they gave this award. I chose three films: “Still Ellis” (because of my beloved actress Julianna Moore), “The theory of everything”-“Universe of Stephen Hawking” (to understand how to even make a film about the scientist and (b) about such a seriously ill person) and “Bördman” (to find out what is now considered “the best” film).

Photo from the report by V. Widow In Uzbekistan, a stone stands on the Suffa plateau. On it is the inscription: “The will of the party, the desire of the people here will be built a radio telescope. It was laid in May 1981. " After the collapse of the USSR, the project remained under the jurisdiction of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences and was frozen. And now 35 years later, Russian and Uzbek physicists again started talking about the construction of a radio telescope.

Spring in spurs of Pir Panjala. Photo by A.V. Andreev Stories about expeditions are perceived differently. Colleagues-specialists are mostly interested in the facts and collected material obtained in the field, while most other people are more likely not attracted by the report on the studies, but “the being of science”, if we use the name of one of the trinity of the Trinity Option. How is the expedition preparing, what is everyday life in it, what are the surprises?

But I don’t remember how I met Borea. So much that was later, I remember, but this is not, I can’t remember. Somehow he gradually entered my life. We were peers and both studied at the GSU radio faculty, even though I'm on the course earlier. I remember how at first I paid attention to him from the side, and it was impossible not to draw: huge, beautiful, self -confident, as we call it now, cool. In general, he did not care what he was wearing in some torn sweaters.

The arrival of Dawn to the cerer is the illustration of NASA On March 6, a message appeared on the NASA website that the agency’s probe first entered orbit around the dwarf planet. We are talking about the Dawn apparatus ("Dawn"), which began the movement around Ceres, which was considered an asteroid number one for two centuries, and since 2006 - one of the five (so far) dwarf planets of the solar system. The very concept of "dwarf planet" in astronomy appeared recently.

Daria Lebedeva Hestings M. First World War: 1914 disaster . Per. from English. M. Tennova. - M.: Alpina Non- Fikshn, 2014.- 604 p. The British historian and military journalist Sir Max Histings, who was already famous for the border of the Second World War “Hell on Earth” (went out in Russia last year), wrote a voluminous volume dedicated to the beginning of a large -scale conflict by the centenary of the First World War.

After listening to how Steve Huguit speaks in Briton, you might think that he was born somewhere on a picturesque farm in the central part of the Armorican peninsula and from childhood listened to fairy tales that the old people in wide-brimmed hats and wooden shoes were told in the whole evenings, gathering households at the hearth. The image of a good Breton uncle is complemented by a magnificent mustache, a slightly mocking gaze, a slightly slow movement of a self -confident person.

Photo from the site 4.bp.blogspot.com Each type of mammals has its own marriage customs. Some form constant couples for a long time or for a lifetime, others are characterized by multiple short -term connections. A person among mammals is an exception, among Homo sapiens one can find monogamous and very polygamous individuals. There are many options between these extreme points.

Daria Lebedeva Shumigorsky E. S. Emperor Paul I: Life and Reign. Preface, comments by L.V. Belovinsky . - M.: GPIB, 2014. - 336 p. Even today, many four -year reign of Emperor Paul I seems to be a tragicomic episode between the reign of Catherine the Great and Alexander I. The violent and brutal death of the unfortunate king was met by a popular glee, and the years of the “rule of horror” were immediately deleted from folk memory.