Specifying the Valley. On the cliffs of Dankar. June 9, 2015. Photo by V. Skvortsova Lev Borkin, Head of the Center for the Himalayan Scientific Research of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists Spiti Valley Valley is located in the north-east of Himal-Pradesh in the administrative district of Lahul and Spiti District). The expeditions of the St.

A significant, if not most of their lives, citizens are spent in rooms where a huge number of bacteria and fungi are adjacent to them. Such a neighborhood is not always pleasant, some microorganisms are pathogenic, others cause allergies, but even without them it is also impossible. According to numerous data, insufficient contact with microbes, fungi and parasites is fraught with a high probability of allergic diseases.

In September, at Corpus [1] The book of Walter Aisekson “Innovators” is published. Aisekson is an American journalist and writer. Now he is the president of the Aspen Institute, and used to be the head of CNN and the editor -in -chief of Time magazine. This is a recognized master of the biographical genre. Aisekson is the author of Einstein.

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Galina Zirina This line of Okudzhava quite accurately conveys my perception of the current Moscow State University - the perception of an ordinary professor, far from the secular life of the “main building”. I am not pleased with the agreement of the Moscow State University with Roscosmos and the upcoming launch of the next satellite (now there will be “Lomonosov”, the great martyr “Tatyana” was sinking twice).

Pavel Chebotarev The reform of science in Russia enters into the stage of changes that every researcher will feel. The article by the co -chair of the Council of the Society of Scientists Pavel Chebotarev we are talking about a document, according to the development of developers, called upon to lay the basis of a new science financing system.

Yuri Kovalev The discussion about the principles of financing science in Russia continues. The article of a member of the Council for Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of Yuri Kovalev gives arguments in support of the competition and expert assessment as an optimal approach to the organization of scientific research and making personnel and financial decisions.

Rebekah Frumkin Bruno Taut (1880–1938) is well known to professionals and, I hope, to his compatriots; His name did not say anything to me until I went deeper during the emergence of constructivism/functionalism. In Europe, these are the heyday of the Bauhaus, the concept of which Taut shared, being simultaneously a rationalist and dreamer.

The moment has come that the administrations of the country's best universities and higher education officials have been waiting for so long. On September 30, a new edition of one of the world's oldest university rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, was published. It is on the basis of this rating, together with another one provided by the British company QS, that the effectiveness of the implementation of the “5-100” program is assessed.

Julia is black In Novosibirsk, on September 17–20, the Eureka! Fest science festival was held, organized by the Novosibirsk State University and the Akademgorodok public fund. The main topics of the festival are evolution and light, scientific communications, the formation of the future, technical creativity and inventions.

The rapprochement of the New Horizons automatic interplanetary station ( “New Horizons”) with Pluto ( up to 12.5 thousand km) took place on July 14, 2015 ( see the TRV- science No. 183- 184 ), but the transmission of images with maximum resolution was stopped on July 20 and resumed only on September 5. Now every week NASA pleases us with another portion of amazing photos.

Valentin Bazhanov, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, DOK. Philos. sciences, professor, head. Department of Philosophy of Ulyanovsk State University When I am in the offices of Western colleagues, I see that bookcases and/or racks in them are filled with books, magazines, and photocopies of scientific works. About ten years ago at the departments of our universities it was possible to see a similar picture (except that books and magazines were older).

Rice. M. Smagina Perhaps there was no event that caused in the first half of 2015 a more stringent reaction of the scientific community than the project published on April 14, 2015 “Methodological recommendations for the distribution of subsidies provided by federal state institutions performing work in the field of scientific (research) and scientific and technical activity”.

Dear editors ! What thoughts, dear colleagues, come to your mind when you hear the word "Senate"? Probably, you imagine strict ancient Roman fatal fathers in the toxs gathered in Kuria, Cicero and the younger Cato, in passionate speeches scouring dictatorial dictates of Caesar. And other pathetic scenes in this spirit. However, frankly, there was everything in that Senate - and the horse, they say, were sitting there.

Alexander Belyaev In the city of Pushkin (Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg) on ​​September 25 and 26, 2015, the second Belyaevsky literary festival was held, dedicated to the annual presentation ceremony named after A. R. Belyaev (Belyaevsky Prize). On the first day, meetings with writers and laureates of the premium of past years were held in city libraries and cinema "Avangard". A demonstration of films made based on the works of Alexander Belyaev took place.