Alexander Sergeev In anticipation of the conference on countering pseudoscience at the journalism faculty of Moscow State University, we publish a brief review of the trends that have developed in recent years on the Russian pseudoscientific field.

Tatyana Chelnova The answer of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev to a complaint about the low salary of teachers caused a lot of criticism. The petition with the demand for the resignation of the top-teacher collected thousands of votes.

On Saturday, September 10, 2016, at 19:00 in the Arche Center, a lecture of astrophysics, editor-in-chief of the TRV-Hunger Boris Stern “Science and Fantastic” will be held: exoplanets and the new book “Ark 47” ”. We will talk about the current state of research of exoplanets: how they are opened and what is known about how common are planets of the Earth type in stars like the Sun.

The ISS experience has inspired neuroscientists. They propose the creation of the International Brain Station (TIBS), and this is an important development in the field of brain research. An article by 60+ authors with a brief summary of the idea is devoted to this idea (see http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06548 ). This is the fruit of joint brainstorming sessions, the first was in April, the second in July 2016.

The rhetorical question: how long will officials demand from scientists to fill out bureaucratic reports in the “super -working” mode? The answer to this may be this case. It turns out that there is nothing urgent in the preparation of documents for Fano! M. Yu. Romanovsky. Photo from the site fano Recall that the agency in his letter No.

Olga Orlova What results did the current missions for the study of the Red Planet and what research are planned in the near future? Why study her companions? Is the colonization of Mars possible? And what is the probability of finding life there? Olga Orlova talked about this and much more with the director of the Space Research Institute, vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences Leo Green . Leo Green was born in Moscow in 1948.

Victor Kalinushkin The Trade Union of RAS Workers unfolds work on the preparation of mass shares. Our main task is to achieve the growth of financing of Russian science and academic institutions. In recent years, there has been a permanent circumcision of the budget of all civil science (for example, in 2016 by 13% compared to 2015), and, in particular, Fano (from 92 billion rubles in 2014 to 8 billion rubles in 2015 and up to about 80 billion rubles in 2016).

Rice. O. Dobrovolsky Alexander Sokolov, editor of the Anthropogenesis.ru portal, a popularizer of science, told the TRV-hunger about the anti-premium for pseudoscience, which will be handed in Moscow, at the second forum “Scientists Against myths”, October 2, 2016 Academy of Macro -Consciousness. Academy of Trinitarism. International Academy of Energy Information. And even the "International Academy of Family Medicine, non -traditional and natural methods of treatment." What academies are not!

Dear Olga Yurievna ! On behalf of the interregional trade union of educators “Teacher,” I am writing to you on the first day of the new school year to draw attention to the deplorable situation with teachers’ salaries in a number of Russian regions and in the country as a whole.

The Council of the Interregional Trade Union of Education Workers “Teacher” considers it necessary to note the growing wave of various kinds of information stories on education in the period from May to September, suggesting that another reform campaign is brewing in this area.

Natalia Reznik Animals can do a lot. For example, the bottle -haired Tursiops sp. Delphi, living in a kakuli bay off the coast of Australia, cut off pieces of sponges and scrap them along the bottom, scaring a fish that hid in the sand or between the stones. With the help of echolocation, it cannot be detected, but it can be expelled from the shelter. It is more convenient to scrap with a sponge, it protects the rostrum of the dolphin from damage (Fig. 1).

August 22, 2016 Dot. chem. sciences, head. lab. The Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor of the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University, Valentin Ananikov was awarded the prestigious prize of the American Chemical Society (American Chemical Society, ACS). She was awarded to him during the symposium of this society, which took place in the city of Philadelphia (USA) [1].

Announcement of the issue Does Proxima Centauri have life? Boris Stern on the (un)suitability for life of the closest exoplanet to us - page 2 Grimaces of bureaucracy Scientists comment on FANO’s responses to their appeals - pages 2 and 6 Our dream school Maxim Borisov , Andrey Demidov and others about the past, present and future of school education - pp. 3, 8–9, 11 Is Brexit a blow to British universities? Interview with Anna Muradova with Maxim Fomin - pp.

I read a lot and quickly, which is why I am in a constant (alas, rather unsystematic) search for the next portion of food for my mind and heart. This is how I discovered the American writer Jonathan Franzen - first his novels, then his essays. Franzen's three main novels have been translated into Russian: Corrections, Freedom and Purity; Some of his essays have been published in Russian (see the collection “Far Island”).

Ilya Mirmov The Academy of Sciences due to special decisions of the Government of the Russian Federation (No. 1595, paragraph 26, $ 2 dated December 29, 2014 and No. 771 dated 07/29/2015) were canceled travel certificates (KU). Naturally, from the point of view of the government, for the good of the workers. In order to improve, increase and simplify.