Yamuna Valley, the southern foot of the Shiliksky ridge. June 1, 2015 Lev Borkin, Head of the Himalayan Scientific Research Center St. Petersburg Union of Scientists Alexander Andreev, Dokt. Biol. sciences, ornithologist A couple of days before our flight on the expedition, domestic television channels reported frightening news for travelers to India. By the morning of May 29, more than 1,700 people died there from excessive heat.

The story about how the exam destroyed practical classes in high school and what came of it Anton Evseev Recently, I often conduct practical classes on hydrobiology at the Zvenigorod Biological Station (ZBS). Children go there as follows: there is an organization that concludes an agreement on conducting such classes with some Moscow or Moscow Region by a school. The same organization hires a teacher who conducts these workshops.

A quiet Parisian street, a small cafe a few steps from Sciences Po, the university where Sergei Guriev now teaches. It’s unusual to see him not in his office at NES or at some important conference in Moscow, but here. I have such a long list of questions for him that I don’t know how to fit everything into one interview...

Dear editors ! Summer is coming, time for trips to conferences, expeditions, vacations - in general, relaxation in nature and in various interesting places. And I’m already preparing for the moment when it will be possible, forgetting about the students, to tune in to the appropriate wave. However, many colleagues are haunted by so-called pressing issues.

Artyom Novichonok, Cand. Biol. sciences, head of the laboratory of astronomy of Petrozavodsk State University The scientific world is looking forward to approaching the NASA Automatic Interplanetary Station “New Horizons” to Pluto, which was considered a planet even when the device was launched in January 2006.

Photos are provided by the organizing committee On June 4, at a press conference in the Cafe “House 12”, the nominees of the prize in the field of popular science literature “Enlightener-2015” were named. This season, books of the popular science genre on any subjects originally written in Russian and in primary sale, regardless of the date of the publication, were accepted for the competition.

Photo by N. Zimin A free educational project summer school is an important and, one might say, necessary addition to official Russian education. The summer school gathers about 30 workshops in various disciplines on its site in a tent camp next to the Dubna’s science. Its participants are young specialists, students of universities and schools.

Natalia Demina Quiet Parisian street Rue de la Grenelle, a small cafe a few steps from Sciences Po - the university, where Sergei Guriev is now teaching. It is unusual to see him not in his office in Rash or at some important conference in Moscow, but here.

Pavel Chebotarev, Institute of Problems of Management of the Russian Academy of Sciences At the general meeting of Onr [1] , among other things, the scientific and organizational agenda was discussed on the election year. Evgeny Onishchenko, who made a report on this issue [2] , spoke about several cases when scientific activists, despite the absence of levers of direct influence on decision -making, managed to insist on their own and achieve an improvement in the situation of scientists.

Dmitry Geltman, deputy. Director of the Botanical Institute. V. L. Komarova RAS On February 3, 2015, it turned 90 to Nikolai Nikolaevich Tselovy - an outstanding Russian botanist, chief scientific employee of the Botanical Institute named after V. L. Komarova RAS, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a modest and kind person. N. N. was born and spent his childhood in Tambov.

Boris Pshenichner On May 19 , the International Astronautics Federation awarded the Franca Malina Malina Pshenichner , the creator and head of the famous astronomy and cosmonautics of the Moscow City Palace of Pioneers, the actual member of the Cosmonautics of the Russian Federation, an honored Russian culture worker .

On Saturday, June 6, a rally in the defense of science and education took place on Suvorovskaya Square. There were two reasons: the second stage of the reform of the former academic science (transfer most of the basic financing to competitive, raise the salary of outstanding scientists, 2/3 - expel) and the announcement of the “dynasty” by a foreign agent. The second, perhaps, for many (in any case, for me) it was a stronger impulse to come to the rally.

Announcement of the issue How far can you go in reverse gear? Pavel Chebotarev proposes to remind Russian society of our primordial love for fast driving - pp.

There is still life on the comet—at least electronic life. The Philae module, which made the first-ever soft landing on a comet last November, transmitted a signal that it was emerging from sleep mode. Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko approached the Sun, and this allowed Phila to recharge its batteries and prepare to continue its research work. “We are going to repeat some of that the we operations carried out in November , as part of the first scientific program , when the module first landed .

“illiterate old women” is an insult, “financed with American money” is slander. At least from my purely human and reader point of view. If you do not understand the generally understood criteria or pretend that you are such a new-fangled fighter and “fan of the government”, a voluntary Siberian Crane, then I am not obliged to play these games and read all this, pretend to be a “policeman uncle” and separate cutlets from flies.