Presentation of the book "Megagran". Elena Kokurina (left) and Paolo McKiarini.

Boris Kustodiev painted the painting “Merchant Counting Money” in 1918, when this money had already lost its meaning: the royal papers were formally worth nothing, although they continued to circulate, and for gold and silver coins one could get 10 years under the decree “On Speculation” " dated July 27, 1918. The only thing that could be done with gold coins was to hand them over to the treasury. What kind of money is this?

Yuri Nikolaevich Artsutanov (1929–2019) Memory of Yu. N. Artsutanov On January 1, 2019, in the 90th year of his life, Yuri Nikolaevich Artsutanov died-a St. Petersburg engineer, an inventor, and erudite. He went down in history primarily as the author of an unusually bold idea - a cosmic elevator. We asked to write about this Anton Pervushin , who personally knew Yuri Nikolaevich.

The most popular in construction and many other industries is stainless steel. It has many advantages: it retains an attractive appearance for a long time, is not subject to corrosion and temperature changes, and easily tolerates moisture. Special production technology When producing stainless steel, 20% or more chromium is added to complex alloy steel. Sometimes other impurities are additionally added to the composition: sulfur, manganese, carbon, molybdenum, nickel.

In various fields of activity, situations often arise when you need to rewrite text from an image and, as a result, get a printed text document. In order not to waste a lot of time and effort, use a special resource for free text recognition from images – Img2txt. It specializes in the “ convert image to text ” function. How does the resource work? The way the resource works is very simple. To recognize text from an image, you need to: Scan or photograph the text you want to recognize.

Interplanetary apparatus "New Horizons" (NASA) Anton Pervushin In early January, experts in astronautics celebrated the sixty year of launch of the first interplanetary apparatus Luna-1. According to the amazing coincidence in the same days, the research unmanned cosmonautics presented two achievements, which, without a doubt, are of historical significance.

Vladimir Moskovkin Russian universities and academic organizations are still weakly integrated into the international open access movement. The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Sciences has not yet expressed its position on the OA2020 Initiative [1] and the SE EUROUSIS plan [2, 3], Russian researchers and teachers of higher education are generally poorly informed about the main provisions of the open -access concept.

Modern IP CCTV cameras have many advantages over traditional analog systems. They allow you to transmit information over almost any distance via a local network or the Internet. Other advantages: high-resolution recording, blur reduction when the object is significantly closer, significant data transfer speed, expanded field of view, quick search for an important moment in the recording, remote control, fast video conversion to different formats.

Olga Orlova In the new popular science project Laba.media, podcasts are published on the history of science “Scientific and Spiritic session“ Do not believe the Lord Kelvin ”. In this cycle, scientific journalist Olga Orlova offers the current scientist to “talk” with the dead predecessors, inform them of important news, and ask questions of interest. In this release of the scientific and session of the cand. physical. sciences, deputy.

The hero of the famous novel by Honore de Balzac, having become the owner of a piece of a miraculous talisman, could make any wish come true, but every time after that a piece of shagreen leather and its lifespan were shortened until it disappeared completely. Something similar is happening with domestic radiobiology. There was a time when her shagreen skin seemed immense, and all her needs were met religiously.

In the light of discussions on social networks with a discussion of the advantages or disadvantages of certain popular science lectures, we turned to the best lecturers of Russia with a request to share stories about how they are preparing for performances before the audience. By the way, the Arkha Cultural and Educational Center holds a competition of novice lecturers “The First Department” .

Vasily Vlasov In Russian medicine, there is an organization specially created even with the sovereignty for the methodological support of the medical education system. Now it has been transformed, it has become even more important, called the GBOU DPO “All-Russian educational and scientific and methodical center for continuous medical and pharmaceutical education” and is subject to the Ministry of Health directly.

If an unpleasant story has happened to you or your relative, and accusations are looming, do not rush to despair. An expert criminal defense attorney can provide timely support, and the situation may improve significantly in prognosis. When should you contact a criminal defense lawyer? Unfortunately, due to ignorance or carelessness, a person can get into an unpleasant situation and become accused in a criminal case.

Ippolitov A. just Rome. Images of Italy XXI. Hummingbird, 2018 The full version of the article (in the paper version and *.pdf - abbreviated). See also the review of R.M. Frumkina on the same book. “Just Rome” is the third book from the series “Images of Italy XXI”; The previous ones were dedicated to Lombardy and Venice, respectively.

Irina Fufaeva As indicators of the genus and gender go to the backyard of the tongue The pilot of the Boeing-737 aircraft Maria Trunina torn over her colleagues on Facebook: "Boys, no offense, but your time seems to have expired." And she attached the scan of the instructions: "Recalculation of the given height in meters ... is performed by both pilots ." In general, mistakes are almost always a marker of changes in the language, that is, the key to its past and possible future.