Dear Colleagues ! I want to tell you about one episode of my life as a director. “I want” is not the right word, I consider myself obligated to do this. On the morning of March 31, at about 11 o’clock, a letter was delivered to the Institute of Philosophy from the office of the Government of the Russian Federation with the inscription on the envelope “Deliver immediately.” In it, signed by the Deputy Director of the Department of Culture K.

Collage, eclipse Alexander Manannikov, amateur of astronomy from Ramensky near Moscow, hunter for eclipses (five successful observations of full solar eclipses in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2015), graduate of the Astronomical Department of the Faculty of Physics, the engineer of FSUE TsAGI On March 18, 2015, our group of 18 people went from Oslo to Spitsbergen to Longyir Airport. A few more participants joined on the spot.

Rice. I. Kiiko Evgeny Onishchenko The Ministry of Education and Science has published a draft document that can radically change the approach to financing scientific institutions.

Is psychology a service? I propose to discuss the topic of what is the idea of ​​Psychology and a psychologist in our society, since we have a consumer society. How does this affect psychology? Yes, commodity-parent relations are now registered everywhere (see Mark Sandomirsky on Facebook on May 2 of this year).

Galileo Galilei, Portrait of Domenico Brusty (1605–1607) Not so often in our time you have to see historical documentary films dedicated to science or its representatives in the announcements of the Russian film award. A happy exception to this rule can be called April 14 at the Zvezda movie theater to the premiere of the film, telling the audience about the dramatic episodes of the relationship between one of the greatest scientists in the history of mankind - Galileo Galileo - and the Church.

Lev Klein Throughout the history of Russian statehood, only a few terms have been replaced by the rulers of the country, and this series allows you to make curious observations. This is this series: the prince ( Verkhny Prince ), Kagan , Tsar , Emperor , Chairman (Central Executive Committee or Supreme Council), Secretary General , President . Observation is the first: all these terms are borrowed ( the pre -Deliever is tracing paper from the same “president”).

We are accustomed to perceive Atlantis rather as simply a poetic or artistic image, however, it turns out that since Soviet times it is in great honor of all kinds of ufologists who are trying to gain a clutch in science, exploiting this interest in the theme of romantic scientists. Whether it will now be able to cope with the venerable Institute of Oceanology. P.P.

Alexey Krushelnitsky, doct. physical. sciences, university employee Martin Luther (Hulle, Germany) I was prompted by the news of the abolition of the competition for the professorship at the St. Petersburg State University for historian Ivan Kurilla (the contract with the teacher decided to interrupt in the middle of the educational process, his bet is annulated.-Ed .

Andrey Rostovtsev This year, the state German television and radio company Deutsche Welle (“German Wave”) among the finalists of the international competition “Best Social Initiative on the Web” called the Russian project Dissernet [1] . Apparently, this is primarily due to the fact that the tasks that the Dissernet project set for itself are well known to the international community. The problem of falsifications in the field of scientific certification is acute not only in Russia.

Olga Orlova The work of our brain, like many years ago , remains the biggest mystery in the field of science of man. Nevertheless , thanks to the efforts of scientists in recent decades , ideas about how our most important “library” is arranged, have changed quite much . Olga Orlova, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Konstantin Anokhin , shares his knowledge from the host of the Hamburg account on public television of Russia . Photo by N.

Day butterflies with their elegance, beauty and unusual, fluttering flight are fascinated by almost everyone, at least in childhood. The ancient Greeks used the same word to the psycho to designate the human soul and butterflies. The Lepidoptera detachment (scales), as these lovely creatures are called in a scientific, are among the most studied in gigantic in the number of types of insect classes, which is studied by science of entomology.

Maxim Frank-Kamenetsky Eduard Trifonov Remembering Chrome (Valeria Ivanovich Ivanov, 1939–2012), it is not enough to say that this is the author (and co -author) of classical works on the structure and biophysics of DNA. After all, he was also a wonderful cheerful and witty person. Many loved him for this, and some avoided him ...

According to the agreement signed on March 20, 2015 in Kyiv, Ukraine becomes a full participant in the united research space of the European Union as an “associate member,” i.e. in a status similar to some other associated non-EU countries such as Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel, Iceland, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Serbia, Turkey, Faroe Islands, Montenegro and Switzerland.

Photo NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute Dmitry Vibe In our century, when spacecraft along and across the spaces of the solar system, it may seem quite strange that we still unknown the exact period of the rotation of Saturn. However, if you think about it, the situation is non -trivial: how to determine the period of the axial rotation of the planet that has no solid surface (or at least it is not visible)?

Rebekah Frumkin This fall, the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to the French writer Patrick Modiano. By that time I had read a dozen of his novels. Modiano has a beautiful, pure language, his style combines sophistication and simplicity. But simplicity in modern literature - in French, that in English is a phenomenon rather rare. Modiano is a prolific author, more than 20 novels, and there are also scripts (you could see Louis Malle shot according to his script “Lacob Lucien”).