Ivan Yashchenko Against the general background of reducing the financing of science and education in Russia, a new educational center in Sochi is clearly distinguished in Russia, to which neither resources nor time, large businessmen, leading universities, teachers and scientific countries, are sparing. About him was told by the Trv-hunger, director of the Center for Pedagogical Mastery Ivan Yashchenko . Talked by Natalia Demina . - History has already become apocryphal.

Do you remember learning the multiplication tables? I remember - with agony, tears and snot. And I wasn’t the only one who suffered like this! Think about it: billions of cute babies all over the world, I don’t know how many centuries, have been cramming “wait two” in all languages. It seems that none of the adults cared about this, everyone took the torment for granted, until a kind uncle appeared, determined to save the younger generation from digital suffering.

Irina Yakutenko Enlightenment is a person out of the state of his minority, in which he is in his own fault. The minority is inability to use his reason without leadership from someone else, ”wrote Immanuel Kant in 1784 and was happy that he was lucky enough to live in the age of education. Although he noted that for the final triumph of reason, some efforts still need to be made. 232 years passed, but the words of the great philosopher are equally relevant.

An animal runs and a bird flies... One of the strongest Russian astrophysicists, Mikhail Revnivtsev, has died. More than a year ago he was diagnosed with cancer. For colleagues who met him only sporadically, this death came as a complete surprise, a terrible shock - Mikhail was only 42 years old, and he was on the rise. Recently received the title of professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On December 6, 2016, he is 70 years old to the director of the Levada Center, professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the NIU-SWE, doctor of philosophical sciences Lev Dmitrievich Gudkov. We publish congratulations to his colleagues and friends. Lev Gudkov. Photo from the site of Radio "Freedom" In my understanding, Lev Dmitrievich Gudkov is one of the most serious and most famous Russian social scholars.

[...] I received a paper copy of the newspaper “Troitsky Option - Science” in my mailbox. I open it, and there is Nastya Prosochkina in the crowd […]

Photo of the press service of the rally The first rally of enlighteners, organized by the Evolution Foundation, was held in Moscow on November 18-19.

I perceive conflicts in the relationship between government officials and the Academy of Sciences, as well as what is happening in the Academy itself, very personally and painfully, not only because I am an employee of FIAN, but mainly because of the reverence for the academic environment, formed first by my parents and then and surroundings.

Black Sea National University. Author with colleagues and students in the French cultural center Anna Muradova For the fifth year now I have been cooperating with the Black Sea National University named after Peter the Grave in the city of Nikolaev, where I am giving a course of lectures “Introduction to Celtic Philology”. All this time I was interested in observing the language situation in the south of Ukraine.

Laureates of the 2016 competition. In the upper row (from left to right) Julia Monakhova, Ekaterina Suslova, Elena Stolboushkina, Irina Soboleva, Olesya breadwoman. In the lower row: Olga Kashibadze, Ksenia Egorova, Anna Kudryavtseva, Olesya Tomashenko, Olga Zalomaeva. Photo of the press service of the competition In the museum to them. On November 14, Pushkin took place the tenth, jubilee scholarship ceremony “for women in science”, which are annually awarded by L'Oreal and UNESCO.

On April 12–14, 2017, the XIV conference of young scientists “Fundamental and Applied Space Research” dedicated to Cosmonautics Day will be held at the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The main goal of the conference is to give young scientists the opportunity to independently present the results of their work, gain experience speaking in front of an audience, and publicly discussing scientific results.

The newly elected member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Gaifullin and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Vasiliev (right). Photo by N. Demina The results of the elections to the Academy of Sciences caused issues not only in the separation of physiological sciences, but also in the separation of mathematics. Unfortunately, many reproaches about the low chirsch indices from the selected members of the scores, about the blocking package of three institutions, etc.

Olga Orlova In 1911, the best physicists of the world decided to gather in Brussels. So the famous Solveev’s congresses appeared. Then not a single physicist from Russia was there. Now there is hardly a major international conference, wherever our compatriots perform. For 100 years, Russia has become one of the leading countries in the training of physicists of the highest level. But do our country need such specialists today?

Vladimir Moskovkin The degradation of the intellectual level of the population is a global trend. It can resist it with traditional culture, not completely inscribed in the global paradigm, as well as local communities represented by their educational centers. But for this you need an understanding of the above global trend.

Heeality is an incompatibility of an object with its mirror reflection with any combination of rotations and movements in three -dimensional space. It is only about an ideal flat mirror. In it, right -handed person turns into a left -handed person and vice versa. The chirality is typical for plants and animals, and the term itself comes from the Greek. χείρ - hand. There are right and left shells and even the right and left beaks of the crows (Fig. 1).