Rebekah Frumkin Less Is More - that was the motto of Misa van der Roe, one of the founders of Bauhaus and an outstanding architect of our time. Perhaps the most bright embodiment, this installation of Mis received in the private house he built by Farnsworth House (1945–1951). This one-room house, made completely of glass (except for gender and roof), was erected by order of the Chicago-neufrologist Edith Farnsworth as Weekend Retreat-that is, cottages.

First scare ... On December 26, 2004, as a result of an earthquake with a magnitude above 9, a Sumatra in the Indian Ocean was formed by a tsunami, which led to the deaths of more than 230 thousand people with victims mainly in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and other coastal regions of the Indian Ocean. In the history of modern civilization, this was the most catastrophic natural event, with the largest number of victims. In some regions, the wave height reached 30 m.

Dear editors ! At one time, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said that of all arts the most important for us is cinema. This happened almost a hundred years ago, a lot of water flowed since then, nuclear weapons were created, humanity went into space, nanotechnologies appeared ... Now, it seems, saturated with rude and material, humanity has begun to turn to true values.

Some time ago, a friend of mine from a local state university stunned me with another piece of news: the university president, who had served in his post for 15 years and had proven himself well during that time, was suddenly removed from his post and replaced by a former police officer! This message gave me a shock that has not gone away to this day. And there was a reason!..

I teach a course at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Geneva called "Elementary Methods". This year, in addition to students, about forty schoolchildren will attend. In this way, the University of Geneva attracts the younger generation: those who pass this course will automatically receive credit for it if they enroll in the appropriate department of the university. In Germany, a similar practice has existed since 2002.

In the year of the 70th anniversary of Victory, it seems very important to me to recall the person with whom it was lucky enough to work in our beautiful ITEF. “Consisted” and “beautiful” - these are not from that time, much later I began to understand this; Holy of youth is careless, everything is good both natural and endless.

October 7 N. I. Shakure turned 70 years old R. A. Syunaev R. A. Syunaev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Society of Max Planck, Ch. scientific. sore. Iki RAS I don’t know why, but when they ask about someone from my friends or good acquaintances, this person stands before my eyes as I met him for the first time or at the moment when he made the greatest impression on me.

Andrey Zasakin According to Dmitry Medvedev , the government introduced a law to the State Duma by which Moscow and St. Petersburg State Universities receive the right to award their own accounting of candidates and doctors of sciences from September 1, 2016 [ 1 ]. In this regard, Andrei Zazakin asks a natural question: whether the dissertation councils of the two oldest universities will cope with a new task - to function without control by the Higher Attestation Commission .

Times have passed when a scientist could, like Darwin or Newton, for decades to calmly think about his theory. Now, in order to receive funding, you have to publish almost continuously. As a result, scientific periodicals came out of the shores and researchers are forced to take measures to be noticed and quoted in this sea. Of course, the article printed in a prestigious magazine and signed by a famous scientist attracts more attention.

Announcement of the issue Return of the police Vyacheslav Shuper is horrified by the restoration of the Soviet practice of banning scientific publications without verification by the 1st department - page 2 Kinks in places? Lev Borkin experienced first-hand how dubious legislative initiatives are implemented - page 5 Sergey Glazyev and the Central Bank Oleg Shibanov examines the “scientific” views of Academician Glazyev, Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation - pp.

Super-Kamiokande detector. Photo: Kamioka ObservATry/ICRR/The University of Tokyo www-sk.icr.u-tokyo.ac.ac.jp The Nobel Physics Prize in 2015 was awarded to the Japanese Takaaki Kajita and Canadian Arthur B. McDonald " for the opening of neutrino osocillations showing that they have a lot." The doct is told about the dramatic history of research of the “elusive particle” . physical .- Mat. sciences, head.

Did you work in these very establishments, my dear? Do you know what the classroom load is there? How many pieces of paper? And what is the salary?

I, like probably 99% of the 732,848 authors registered in the RSCI, read with indignation the article by Alexander Fradkov “ The RSCI teaches you to lie ” (TrV-Nauka, No. 189). What is outrageous, of course, is not the author’s position, but the outrageous facts described.

The newspaper of the TRV-hunger turned to Oleg Shibanova , Professor of Finance Rash, academic director of programs for the economy of the Corporate University of Sberbank, with a request to comment on the scientific views of the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Glazyev . I already managed to speak out about the general views on the economy of the respected academician Glazyv in Forbes [1].

NASA images from Wikipedia Mercury, the initial information about which is given on the Sumerian cuneiform tablets of the 3rd millennium BC. e., turned out to be one of the most difficult to study planets. And it is not surprising - with an orbit with an average diameter of only 0.387 a. e. At the moments of maximum angular removal (maximum elongation), it is defended from the center of the Sun by only 28 °.