Kashmir Valina, April 26, 2013. Photo by A. Andreev Lev Borkin, Head of the Center for the Himalayan Scientific Research of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists On the last day of the stay of our West Himalayan expedition in India (July 7, 2015) at the Srinagar Airport, the main city of Kashmir, I bought a curious book [1] . It is devoted to a problem that excites many people in the world. Was Jesus Christ in India?

Meissner effect (Wikipedia) Sawdrodorod ( H2S ), familiar to us by the smell of rotten eggs , at an extremely high pressure of 1.5 million atmospheres ( 150 GPa ) turns into a superconductor remaining that with a record high topics in 203 Kelvin ( - 70 ° C ) .

Lev Klein Recently, I have to oppose the newly-sounded pseudoscience: DNA genealogy A. A. Kleosov, the systemology of E. D. Sivinikov, less-about the esoteric runology of V. A. Chudinov, the organism of A. A. Tunyaev, and in the past I struggled with the dominance of the new teaching of the language of Academician N. Ya. Marra.

Outside of professional life, episodes still occur that prevent you from completely falling out of the mainstream of your main activity. And when you are both a scientist and a journalist, the result is obvious. Having gained some impressions, you sit down at the keyboard and write material. "How I spent summer". Of course, not the whole summer, but only two weeks, but what two weeks!

Few parents do not dream of seeing a future scientist in their child. But easily, as they say, the fish will not catch. And efforts here are necessary primarily from adults. Children can try and show interest, but most often they do not have enough skills and knowledge. Therefore, without the help of a mentor, they quickly lose interest in the occupation. Consider in order what needs to be done to push your child into science.

Semyon Kutateladze, doct. physical. sciences, professor of Novosibirsk State University, ch. scientific. sore. Institute of Mathematics. Sobolev The state of knowledge of graduates of universities of natural science specialties in the field of English is terribly and does not correspond to its current role in the world scientific community. This thesis is so obvious that it does not need special evidence.

On August 18, in ancient Palmyra, the IS militants were executed by the archaeologist, a former caretaker of the ancient complex in Palmyra Khalid Asaad. I saw many deaths in my centuries -old story, but this, due to its meaninglessness and cruelty, was one of the worst ... Before the death of Halid Asaad, they tortured for several weeks and then executed ...

Mikhail Piotrovsky About the attack on the Moscow arena: The Union of Museums of Russia considers an attack on the Moscow arena of another attack of marginal forces on cultural rights. We see in it a new provocation against the Russian Orthodox Church, an attempt to present it primitively aggressive and prevent the work on the search for the harmony of relations that museums and the church now lead.

School- Conference of IPPI RAS “Information Technologies and Systems” ( Itis'15), which will be held from September 7 to 11 in Sochi, will once again confirm the principle of the interconnectedness of scientific knowledge. This year, the conference program is divided into four thematic platforms: mathematics and physics, the science of data, the Internet of the future and bioinformatics. In parallel, a school in stochastic and financial mathematics will be held .

I, too, have always preferred, from old memory, together, otherwise it hurts the eye, but in new dictionaries it is more often hyphenated, and proofreaders are guided by the norms that have changed over the decades. PS http://www.gramota.ru/forum/redaktor/24310/

Birds sing and tweet not for the sake of our pleasure, but to exchange information. Most species making sounds do not study this, but sometimes the "bird tongue" is so complicated that training is necessary. Vocal training, that is, the ability to reproduce and modify various sounds and their sequences, is rare, among birds it is characteristic only of three groups: singing birds, hummingbirds and parrots.

Haifa. View from a funicular. Our town on the coast - on the right Outside of professional life, for example on vacation, episodes still happen that do not completely fall out of the channel of the main activity. And when you are both a scientist and a journalist at the same time, the result is obvious. Having gained impressions, you sit down at the keyboard and write the material. "How I spent summer." Of course, not all summer, but only two weeks, but what two weeks!

Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant Mikhail Rodkin, doct. physical. Sciences, ITPZ RAS In the Trv-Hawk, No. 184, N. Demina was published “ The Lessons of Fukushima ”. A note describes a visit to the Japanese nuclear power plant by an international group of journalists. As you know, on April 11, 2011, an earthquake with the magnitude of M = 9, one of the strongest in the history of observations, occurred in Japan.

Alexander Abalov In the continuation of the topic on how the answers of schoolchildren on a single state examination on history, begun by the articles of Alexander Morozov , Igor Danilevsky and Andrei Demidov in the Trav-hunger No. 183-185 are checked, we publish an article by Alexander Abalov , Kand. East. Sciences, teachers of the history of lyceum No. 1535. In notes on the exam, it is customary to immediately determine its attitude to this format of knowledge testing.

All nb speakers Julia is black At the end of July, NB-Novosibirsk was held in Novosibirsk. Its organizer Ilya Kabanov has been successfully holding the Newblogic festival for five years. About the most interesting, heard there this summer, says Julia Cherny , a scientific journalist, leading the scientific cafe Eureka (Novosibirsk). “ Today, almost every participant in social networks can call himself a blogger, ” Ilya explained to us.