Construction ITER. July 2016. Photo from the site www.iter.org Tatyana Pichugina Since the time of Soviet childhood, I have learned that a controlled thermonuclear synthesis will solve the energy problems of mankind. Thermonuclear energy will be cheap and environmentally friendly, you only need to overcome a number of technical problems. Overcoming, however, dragged on for more than half a century, and still there.

Natalia Reznik Not only people strive for wealth and comfort. Biologists note that in urban areas inhabited by wealthy citizens, the variety of plants, birds, bats and lizards is higher than in quarters, where people with less income live (clean income and expenses for education and real estate are taken into account). Researchers called this phenomenon the effect of luxury, “Luxury Effect”. Its nature, in general, is understandable.

Alexander Belyaev On September 23, 2016, on Friday, in St. Petersburg, in the writer’s house (St. Petersburg, Zvenigorodskaya St., 22, yard out of the outbuilding, audits of A.R. Belyaev will take place. Belyaev readings will be organized in the format of an international conference, the holding of which is designed for one working day as part of the annual Belyaevsky literary festival. The organizers are the St.

I remember when I was a first-year student, a physics teacher, highly respected by us (until now), instilled in us without a shadow of a doubt that a subject such as ecology cannot be a science, since it does not generate fundamentally new knowledge. I must say, it was very difficult to disagree with him. After all, the metamorphosis that, unfortunately, occurred with this long-suffering name has now led to complete confusion and confusion of a variety of concepts...

Lev Borkin, Honorary Chairman of the Board of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists, Chairman of the Board of the Pallasovsky Fund On September 22, 2016, he marks the 275th anniversary of the birth of a wonderful scientist and traveler, a member of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Peter Simon Pallas, 1741–1811).

Pavel Amnuel On October 15, Henry Saulovich Altshuller would have turned 90 years old. He passed away 18 years ago, but today I continue to ask him tricky questions and I hear in response a quiet ironic voice. These dialogs that I lead myself help to think, work, live ... "Kremlin , Stalin" G. S. Altshuller in Tashkent was born, his parents were journalists. The Tashkent period in the life of the Altshuller family did not last long.

Julia Radilovskaya The TRV-hobby publishes an interview with Mikhail Melnichenko ( www.facebook.com/misha.melnichenko)-organizer and head of the Internet project "Life" ( http://proozhito.org ). Questions were asked by Julia Radilovskaya. - Michael, tell us about the project "Life". How and when did this idea arise? Mikhail Melnichenko - The project "Lived" is already about two and a half years old.

Photo from the site http://smolbattle.ru Alexander Nikulin, Cand. Econ. Sciences, Director of the Agrarian Research Center of the RANEPA Motorization, perhaps, is the most everyday and mass phenomenon of modernization of the 20th century. In the USSR of the 1920s, the key expert in the development of world and domestic vehicles was Obolensky Valerian Valerianovich, better known in the country and party in his party nickname Nikolai Osinsky.

Olga Orlova The relationship of scientists and the state has always been difficult in Russia. Can scientists allow themselves to be opponents of power today? Olga Orlova talks about this in the program "Hamburg account" on public television of Russia with Ch. scientific. sore. St. Petersburg Branch of the Mathematical Institute. Steklov RAS Anatoly with a top . -Anatoly Moiseevich, you are a professor of St. Petersburg University and work at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Alexey Zygmont In 2016, he marks 15 years since the tragedy of September 11. Since then, terrorism has changed and appeared, on the one hand, by quasi -state, and on the other - the attacks of loners, swearing it for loyalty. This phenomenon is actively discussed by the media, state men and the academic community. In this regard, the reprint under one cover of the two works of Jean Bodriyar (1929–2007) “The Spirit of Terrorism” and “War in the Bay” was not random.

Turni J. I am Superorganism! Man and his microbia (Jon Turny. I, Superorganism: Learning to Love Your Inner Ecosystem). - M.: Laboratory of Knowledge, 2016 ( www.pilotlz.ru ). Translation from English Alexei Kapanadze. The book was published in the Universum series (Veda. Editor - Irina Opimima). In each of us there are many bacteria and viruses - in the mouth, on the skin, in the intestines.

On September 22, 2016 (Thursday), Russian linguist, Ph.D. will speak as part of the “Public Lectures “Polit.ru” series. Philol.

Rebekah Frumkin The publishing house of the European University in St. Petersburg published the book of Arkady Ippolitov about the Italian artist of the 16th century Jacopo and PontoMo with the subtitle “Artist from the outside and from the inside” [1]. “From the outside” in this case refers to the artist’s biography, compiled by his junior contemporary Georgio Vasari, and “from the inside” - to the diary of PontoMo himself (the last years of his life).

When spring comes to Japan, men with fans in their hands appear on city streets and parks, passionate about an unusual game. In appearance, the European is unlikely to recognize chess in this logical game, a board, figures and players' moves look too unusual. Having originated in India, which has become popular in the Arab world, the game penetrated the east, in particular, into the Japanese islands, where it turned into a shog (Jap. 将棋 ), or a “game of generals”.

Black feathers under the beak gave a bearded owl her name Pavel Kvartalnov, Cand. Biol. sciences, scientific. sore. Department of Zoology of the Verse Biology Faculty of Moscow State University The meeting with the owl, especially large, can leave few people indifferent.