Leo Borkin In recent years, at different levels they are very fond of talking about the innovative path of development of the country, about the need to change the strategy in scientific policy and the importance of breakthrough scientific solutions. However, when officials from words try to go to business, as a rule, it turns out very clumsy. In this regard, the successful history of the so-called physical [1] expeditions organized by the Imperial Academy of Sciences and Arts in St.

Olga Orlova The basic values ​​of Russians are sharply different from European countries - we sometimes hear such a thesis from Russian politicians and commentators on state State University. And what do scientists think about this who compared, what are Russians and Europeans more expensive? About this in the program "Hamburg account" Scientific observer OTR Olga Orlova spoke with the head.

In less than two weeks, from the end of November, two publications of the most important astrophysical data have been published. Catalog of gravitational-wave events The first, dated November 30, 2018, is a preprint for the authorship of two collaborations - Ligo (USA) and Virgo (Italy) [ 1 ]. The article has a catalog of gravitational-wave events registered in two LIGO working sessions from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016 and from November 30, 2016 to August 25, 2017.

Mikhail Katsnelson Interview with Mikhail Katsnelson , a laureate of the Spinoza Prize and the Hamburg Prize in Theoretical Physics, Doct. physical. Sciences, professor of the theory of the condensed state of the University of Radbaud (Netherlands), a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Arts of the Netherlands and the European Academy. Talked by Natalia Demina . The full version of the interview (in the paper and PDF versions of the newspaper is published abbreviated).

Dear editors! At the beginning of the millennium, our country, with great difficulty, rose from its knees and extricated itself from the shackles into which it fell thanks to our foreign “friends and partners.” But the days are long gone when the joke was that the coming year would be “average,” that is, worse than the previous one, but better than the next. The country rose from its knees and outlined bright prospects for the country’s development, including in the field of science.

Today, during economic and political instability, there are more and more situations that require knowledge of the legislative framework and standards. Controversial issues regarding property rights, debt obligations, taxes and other things are allowed in court, and here a qualified lawyer cannot be dispensed with. In a difficult situation arose, it is better to turn to professionals, since jurisprudence is a highly specialized area, where there are many “underwater stones”.

Closer to the New Year, it is customary to summarize. “Dictionary of Changes 2015–2016”, just published by the writer and philologist Marina Vishnevetskaya, is also a kind of result, but not the expired year, and not even the past, but in front of them, already obscured by the nearest events.

Natalia Reznik In a world where there are predators, you can not do without disguise. And insects reached the greatest skill in the art of camouflage. To merge with the surface of the sheet or pretend to be a twig - they can easily. But many small beetles of leaflets, including earthen fleas, do not seem to try to be invisible at all. They sit on the upper, well -lit surface of the sheet, and their color is not camouflage.

Today, during economic and political instability, situations increasingly arise that require knowledge of the legislative framework and regulations. Controversial issues regarding property rights, debt obligations, taxes and other things are resolved in court, and here you cannot do without the help of a qualified lawyer. If a difficult situation arises, it is better to turn to professionals, since jurisprudence is a highly specialized area with many pitfalls.

Natalia Demina, scientific journalist: The outgoing 2018, in addition to the important achievements of science, the review of which we will publish in the next number of the TRV-hunger, was marked by the continuing persecution of scientists who are not indifferent to the fate of the country. All year in Bryansk, there was a proceedings in the “poppying case”, in the bench of the defendants - in addition to other accused - chemist Olga Zelenina.

State Darwin Museum Invites to the exhibition "Tunguska riddle" To the 100th anniversary of the artist N. I. Fedorov and the 110th anniversary of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite October 6, 2018 - January 27, 2019 110 years ago, an unidentified space object exploded in the sky over the Siberian taiga, called the "Tungusky meteorite." What do you see eyewitnesses? How were the research of the Tunguska phenomenon?

The editors of the Trv-hunger turned to modern Russian poets with a request to send a poem, which, in their opinion, reflects the spirit of the outgoing year. Seeing 2018 ... Marina Boroditskaya On the way, they ate a pen from Kalach Or the side of a calorie roll with a raisins. In the store beloved in the executioner Square They tried on boots, asked for a toy. "Vinograms" attributed words We drank Hungarian juice in checks under the ringing of a drop.

Larisa Melikhova Larisa Melikhova told how Dissernet in 2018 expanded the set of tools for studying the landscape of the Russian pseudo -Donaki. I need such things: Hammer, Vise And ticks, Key, File And a hacksaw, And everything is more necessary - Skill! B. Zakhoder Four years ago, one of the founding of Dissernet, Andrei Rostovtsev, and I came up with a new project: “Russian universities under the Lupa of Dissernet” [ 1 ].

The entire issue of the newspaper Trinity Option - Science No. 269 dated December 18, 2018 in PDF Number Materials in HTML The announcement of the room What's new in the universe Boris Stern about the two most important publications on astrophysicics - p. 2 Hammer, vise and ticks Larisa Melikhova about the results of the work of Dissernet in 2018 - p. 3 Conflicts as the basis of complexity Mikhail Katsnelson and Evgeny Kunin about the riddle of the phenomenon of life - p.

Andrey Makarevich. Photo: A. Savin, "Wikipedia" In the previous issue of the TRV-hobby, Boris Grebenshchikov congratulated on the anniversary. Personally, I was filled with warm feelings - far from always colleagues condescend to worldly affairs (smiley with a smile). But a little more than two weeks passed, and on December 11, 2018 he struck exactly the same anniversary of the second “father of the Russian Rock and Roll” -Andrei Makarevich .