Alexander Sergeev Alexander Sergeyev , editor of the website of the commission for combating pseudoscience and falsification of scientific research under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the moderator of the support group in Facebook, and a member of this commission, answers the questions of the TRV -Homeopathy. The conversation was led by Maxim Borisov . - What goals did the commission for the fight against pseudoscience set yourself, are you letting the memorandum?

Evgeny Berkovich Albrecht Durer created one of the most famous engravings on copper "Melancholy I" in 1514. She expresses a new view of intellectual creativity, characteristic of a new time. Melancholy in antiquity and in new times On a low stone step near the unfinished house, a winged creature sits deeply (which we will call a woman for certainty) with a dark face, on which the whites of the eyes stand out contrasting.

On the sign of the store of the St. Petersburg chain "Polushka" this coin is shown “What’s wrong with this picture?” - as Alexander Ivanovich Herzen repeats in Tom Stoppard’s play “The Coast of Utopia.” Of course, no one expects historical accuracy from a sign, and therefore we need to ignore the little things, such as “E” instead of “Ѣ” or a vignette instead of indicating the mint (by the way, “S.P.B.” is a rare variant minted just in St.

Dear editors! Dear colleagues! I want to congratulate all of you on the past day of Russian science and wish for further success in work! The holiday makes us recall the well -known one: alcohol in small doses is useful in any quantities. After talking about useful small doses, you involuntarily recall various non -traditional areas of medicine, such as homeopathy.

By the evening of the second day we arrive in Cape Town. For ordinary tourists, this city begins with the famous port. We devote the first day to a trip to the Cape of Good Hope; On the way we stop by to see a colony of spectacled penguins. And on the second day we go to Kirstenbosch - a huge botanical garden at the foot of the famous Table Mountain, outlining the outline of the metropolis. More than 7 thousand species of flowering plants can be found in the garden.

Mikhail Shifman and Arkady Weinstein. Photo ftpi In 2016, professor at the University of Minnesota (USA) Mikhail Shifman and Arkady Weinstein, as well as their colleague Nathan Seiberg from the Institute of Advanced Studies of Princeton University, became laureates of one of the highest awards in physics - Dirac medals [1]. Mikhail Arkadievich Shifman told Natalia Demina about his research . - Is it possible to explain what you do, explain to a simple person on your fingers?

Ferkluf: Blooming proteas Garden of Good Hope By the evening of the second day, we arrive in Cape Town. For ordinary tourists, this city begins with the famous port. We devote the first day a trip to Cape of Good Hope; On the way, we stop looking at the colony of point penguins. And on the second day we go to Kirstensh. Kirstestsh is a huge botanical garden at the foot of the famous dining room of the mountain, outlining the contour of the metropolis.

In mid -January, extremely unpleasant information appeared about the leaks of the tasks of the regional stage of the All -Russian Olympiad of schoolchildren (whose winners and prize -winners can be applied to the profile direction of any university, regardless of the results of the exam). We are talking about what happened with Sergey Antonovsky - the administrator of the largest group in domestic social networks dedicated to the Olympiad movement, daily and in detail covered what is happening.

On January 31, 2017, a meeting of the Council on Science under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation was held. The materials of this meeting are posted on the Council website [1-3]. The Council was attended by the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Olga Vasilieva and Deputy Minister Grigory Trubnikov.

Natalia Reznik The measure of the adaptability of the animal, its success is fertility. And we expect that in the reproduction season, animals will give all the forces to choose and conquer a sexual partner or partners. Scientific literature is full of messages about how different animals and birds cope with this responsible task.

On the day of Russian science, on February 8, a ceremony of presenting the annual prize “For Fidelity of Science” was held at the Moscow International House of Music.

Libby near his installation ( alchetron.com/willard-libby-1354964-w ) In 1955, the international conference on the peaceful use of atomic energy was held in Geneva. The performance of one of the speakers began unusual. He went to the rostrum with a large suitcase, took out an old wicker shoes from him and announced that it was worn by a resident of North America 9500 years ago.

Rice. V. Bogorada The second memorandum of the commission for combating pseudoscience caused a storm of emotions often manifested in aggressive form (see, for example, www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2017/02/07/n_9657773.shtml ). I don’t know what is worse - the complete indifference with which the people meet any news, or similar aggressive electrification, when everyone is ready to cling to the claws at any bearer of a different point of view. I think indifference is worse.

Before this memorandum, I knew nothing about homeopathy and believed that it was just some kind of herbal medicine - herbal medicine, why not, there are a lot of biologically active substances among plant origin... After reading the memorandum and googling about homeopathy, I was truly horrified, the remaining hair began to move... This is horror, a nightmare, obscurantism in its chemically pure form.

In January of this year, the SCIENCE magazine published an article by Harvard University of Ranga Dias and Isaac Silvera, which reports the receipt of metal hydrogen. The article caused a great resonance in the media, since metal hydrogen was a long -standing dream of solid -winners. Firstly, it is very interesting as a fundamental physical phenomenon. Secondly, it should form in the bowels of the giant planets.