Anastasia Serazetdinova “Good morning guys! I am your new teacher. " "Yeah, new!" - Young minds rub their hands. A graduate of a pedagogical university would be glad to go for happiness to the bankers-renovations or open a fashionable loft space. But love for children again overpowered everything.

Collage from the site Abnews.ru When the number turned up, a message came about the resignation of the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov and the appointment of a historian, religious scholar Olga Vasilyeva to this position . We publish the responses of scientists and teachers to this event. Boris Stern, Astrophysicist, editor-in-chief of the TRV-hunger: We still have to sadly remember Lebanon with a kind word.

Natalia Reznik Look out the window at the house opposite. Surely its walls are covered with acne air conditioners. Without them, many do not represent a modern home, especially in the summer. So, if in the USA in 1965 air conditioners stood only in 10% of houses, then in our time they have already equipped 85% of residential and 95% of office buildings.

Mikhail Mints, cand. East. sciences, Art. scientific. sore. INION RAS http://michael-mints.ru/ On August 5, 2016, the Schusev architectural museum was presented with the sketch projects of the new Wion RAS building. The event came out in its own way funny, but stupid in the same extent: everything seems to be done for us, and we, instead of rejoice, make some complaints.

First of all, I’ll say the worst thing: My Dream School is not a school for everyone. “Everyone” is required to go through the elementary school program only.

Dear editors! The instructive mind of the scientist does not give me rest: in the diversity of the surrounding life, I am looking for communication and patterns. In everyday life, art, politics ... So in the latest political rearrangements, I tried to see a secret meaning.

“I have told local politicians many times that if Western society were smarter, there would have been a period of window opportunity - ABOUT 1-2 MONTHS, WHEN EUROPE COULD PRESSURE NOT ONLY ON RUSSIA (AS THEY PRESSURED), BUT ALSO ON UKRAINE. THERE WOULD NOT BE A WAR. BOTH TERRITORIES - CRIMEA AND DONBASS - WERE FEDERAL REPUBLICS WITHIN UKRAINE, IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR EVERYONE. BUT NO, WE ONLY NEEDED TO SUPPORT UKRAINE!” Are these really his words?

Boris Stern In August 1991, the Troitsky Option newspaper already existed, from which, after many years, a shelter grew. And his editor -in -chief was the same, that is, your humble servant. In my dusty suitcase I found a newspaper’s number dedicated to the coup released in hot pursuit. A yellowed newspaper on loose paper of A3 format sheets, folded in half, then many newspapers established “from below” looked like.

ISS. Photo NASA Alexander Khokhlov, Cosmonautics Popularizer, freelance correspondent for the magazine "Cosmonautics News On August 11, 2016, Izvestia newspaper, the words of Sergey Krileyov, executive director for manned programs of the Roscosmos State Corporation, about the intention to reduce the number of Russian astronauts in the crew of the International Space Station, were published [1].

At the beginning of summer, the famous philanthropist of science Yuri Milner and the author of this message agreed that the “Trinity Option - Science” would become one of the platforms for general discussion around the Star Sail project (in the original “Starshot”, but “star shot” in Russian sounds bad). Technically it is organized as a discussion forum in English, so participation by people who cannot read English is virtually impossible.

Photo by M. Rubinstein In the last days of July, the XIV International Linguistics Olympiad for schoolchildren was held in the Indian city of Masur. At the Olympics, Russia was represented by eight high school students selected among the winners of the XLVI of the traditional Linguistics Olympiad. Russian schoolchildren went around all their rivals in the number of gold medals and according to the total number of awards.

Olga Ilyina Evgeny Borovich It is difficult to find a more closed and opaque field of scientific (or pseudo -scientific) activities than a scientific examination. As a rule, readers of the expert opinion are a very narrow circle of persons, some of them are interested in a certain result and pay for the work of experts. Only thanks to an accident or trial can an expert opinion be seen by experts or representatives of the public.

Alexey Vodovozov, scientific journalist Answering the main question of the number - what I would like to see the school - I would answer: "The corresponding scientific picture of the world." And this applies to both secondary and higher education. Educational literature for universities, technical schools, lyceums and gymnasiums is stuffed with outdated information, in one of the releases of the three-hobby, we analyzed this using the example of school biology textbooks [1].

Alexander Gorsky, Ippi RAS The Dirac prize for 2016 was awarded to Arkady Weinstein, Mikhail Shifman from the Fayn Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota and Nathan Seiberg from the Institute of Advanced Research of Princeton University.

The medal in honor of the outstanding Russian mathematician and physicist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ludwig Faddeev will appear among other prestigious scientific awards. The European Research Committee on the Quantum Multiparticle Problem and the Multiparticle Systems Topic Group of the American Physical Society have established the Faddeev medal.