Alexander Markov The new book on the early history of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Diptikh Igor Dmitriev and Natalia Kuznetsova is a big conversation about a personal example in the development of sciences.

Berkhed T. The most perfect thing in the world: inside and outside the bird egg. Translation by Pavel Volkov. M.: Hummingbird, 2019 (series "New Naturalist") Martin Heidegger said that the main task of philosophy is to complicate things, to make them more difficult to understand. This allows you to wash off the shell of the usual perception from them.

The entire issue of the newspaper Trinity Option - Science No. 280 of June 4, 2019 in PDF Number Materials in HTML The announcement of the room “Two expeditions are disrupted”: Who is drowning oceanologists? - p. 1-2 Open access: Russia and advanced countries of the world The topic is followed by Vladimir Moskovkin - p. 3 Problems with the expansion of the universe? The scandalous data of the group of Adam Risa is discussed by Oleg Verdrandov - p.

According to different articles of budget expenditures for science, Trump's proposals for change in comparison with the previous year are shown yellow, and the counter proposals of the Congress - blue. For reference: budget expenditures in 2019 in absolute numbers for each article are indicated in brackets. A.K.

Dear editors! Recently, an event that stirred our progressive scientific community happened: another rotation of the composition of the highest certification commission was carried out. It would seem common, but no! Here is how the notorious club “July 1” commented on the government’s decision on his website: “ This routine operation in this case is very scandalous, as well as too much, which is connected with the Higher Attestation Commission in recent years.

Is scientific criticism of antinormanism possible? Oleg Gubarev One of the most frequent reproaches from neoantinormanists 1 is that none of the professional historians and archaeologists disassemble their hypotheses and guesses from a scientific point of view. “ And when with the capital five-part work of S. A. Gedeonov, A. G. Kuzmin himself and V.V.

A little story Alexey Levin Alchemists not only believed in the possibility of turning the elements (say, lead or mercury into gold), but also tried (sometimes at risk for themselves) to realize this faith with life. Scientific chemistry proclaimed the invariability of the elements and thereby imposed a ban on such transformations - as they said then, transmutation. This ban was refuted by the discovery of radioactivity at the end of the 19th century - transmutation was possible.

The State Darwin Museum invites June 15 from 10:30 to 16:00 for a family holiday This year, the Father's Day is dedicated to the joint hobby of fathers and children. Several thematic sites will be organized in the Darwin Museum, where everyone can find a lesson to their liking - to throw fishing rods and compete for the best catch, puzzle in solving puzzles, learn to make furniture and take care of horses.

Oleg Verkhodanov ( sed.sao.ru/~ ~) Probably, one could immediately start a note with the discussion of two statements: “In observational cosmology, there are problems of coordinating modern results of different experiments” and “In observational cosmology, except for old ones, there are no other problems.” But still I will make a small introduction, as well as introduce some terms for readers who first plunge into the topic under discussion.

May 29 Ilya Abramovich Leenson, the author of many books on chemistry for children and adults, died. But his interests were much wider. For many years we met with Ilya at our summer linguistic school, where he first arrived as the husband of Evgenia Semenovna Ablyuk, but then he became a full-fledged participant-organizer and for many years she conducted his “intellectual fireworks”, a quiz about everything in the world.

Specialists in chemical archeology have to work exclusively in sterile conditions Arkady Kuramshin The traditional image of an archaeologist is a person who is burned in excavations, who uses a shovel, a scoop, and for special occasions, a brush to clean especially fragile finds from dust. However, thanks to the development of chemical archeology, antiquity researchers appeared, dressed in snow -white robes, the main instruments of which are spectrometers.

Everyone is light and small Who ascended to the top of the hill. Leonid Aronzon Rebekah Frumkin In August it will be exactly five years since Boris Dubin left ... Anton Dubin compiled and published in the form of a book of work of Boris Vladimirovich, which he managed to prepare for printing or left in a complete form (St. Petersburg: Publishing House of Ivan Lumbach, 2018; the title “On People and Books” was preserved on B. V.'s computer).

How great is the interest in open access to scientific information in Russia? The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific and Humanitarian Knowledge (2003) was signed only by the National Research University "BelSU" in October 2006 and the Association of Internet Publishers in November 2017, and in total today there are over six hundred signatories of this declaration.

Lydia Georgieva Cancer is historically considered the disease of the elderly, but every year the disease is “rejuvenated”: the percentage of young people among patients with oncology is growing. Perhaps, among other things, chips and sweet soda are to blame for this. The study published in Lancet Public Health 1 showed the connection of obesity and development of cancer at an early age.

Cheops boat On May 26, Google devoted his dudl to the famous archaeological find, made 65 years ago in Giza near the Cheops Pyramid (Khufu), his royal rook. The event did not become a turning point in the history of Egyptology, but still causes various interpretations, hypotheses and speculation.