In August 1969, a bright event took place - the landing of people on the moon. I was very interested in the history of preparation for this expedition and used all the possibilities to learn the news. In the Cold War with America, which prepared a landing, our propaganda in every possible way blocked any information of this variety.

At the end of May , Ilya Abramovich Leenson , the author of numerous popular science books and articles about chemistry and about everything in the world, tragically passed away. We asked his colleagues to share his memories. I.A. Leenson at the bottom of the chemist at Moscow State University (2006). Photo from the family archive Alexey Ognev , publishing the editor of the TRV-hunger: Ilya Abramovich Leenson was an extremely witty person.

Alexander Markov Poor religion “Four riders of atheism” - Dennet, Dokins, Harris and Hitchens - are known to all by names and as a united group. It is harder to call four knights in the modern world: they are scattered through countries and continents, but most importantly, invisible, like the heirs of a modest religion.

The final season of Game of Thrones premiered in May. For eight years, fans of the series have followed political and romantic intrigues, the rise of dragons and the advance of the dead - and not least the languages ​​spoken by the characters. George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, which is the basis for Game of Thrones, is written in English; Naturally, the series itself was filmed in English.

At the VI World Conference on World Conference On Research Integrity, which recently held in Hong Kong, people who are not indifferent to problems in science have gathered: winding citation, concealing uncomfortable results, and falsification of data. About 700 participants from more than 60 countries came to the conference.

Levontina I. B., Shmelev A. D. Liberal vocabulary. St. Petersburg: Nestor-History, 2019. 180 p. On the cover of the book, the picture of A. A. Deineki “Nikita is the first Russian flyer” (1940) The book of Irina Levontina and Alexei Shmelev is revealed by the saying of Descartes, calling for to determine the meanings of words in order to get rid of errors. True, it will be very difficult to follow the advice of a great rationalist in this case.

Archive TrV No. 12 (281) for 2019: Babylonian sages and number theory 06/18/2019 / No. 281 / Production editors: Alexey Ognev and Maria Molina / Archive / no comments A cryogenic telescope will recreate the dawn of the Universe. Scientific sausage and alien octopuses. Metaplagiarism. The good and evil of a tainted gene. Polar bear fur gave materials scientists a clue. Trolling of the 15th century. The Game of Languages ​​in Game of Thrones. Immortal Knight of Faith from the Sorbonne.

The manuscript of Voinich is a long -standing linguistic riddle. No one has yet been able to guess what language this text is written in. No matter how hard they tried to solve it, the manuscript did not give in. In May of this year, information appeared about a new attempt to decrypt the manuscript of Voinich, but it quickly became clear that this time, alas, there was no solution.

Dear editors! The progressive community is indignant about the case with the journalist Golunov, who was thrown away by drugs to put him in prison and force him to shut up. She requires the punishment of the perpetrators. The academic community, after the recently held general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, other concerns: the long -awaited elections of members of the Russian Academy of Sciences will soon take place!

The entire issue of the newspaper Trinity Option - Science No. 281 of June 18, 2019 in PDF Number Materials in HTML The announcement of the room The cryogenic telescope recreates the dawn of the universe Interview with Vyacheslav Avdeev with participants in the Millimeter project - p. 3 Scientific sausage and octopus. Reporting of Alexander Panchin about the VI World Conference on unfair research - p. 6 Metaplagiat Mikhail Gelfand again explores hellish circles of the standard form - p.

ša3 niĝ2-kas7 nu-zu ša3 igi-ĝal2 tuku Does the wisdom have a soul that has not mastered the art of counting? Sumerian proverb, Alster B. Proverbs of Ancient Sumer, 1997, 54, 116 Nadezhda Rudik Usually, when we are talking about mathematics in ancient Mesopotamia, we mean the Old Babylonian period (1800–1595) or the second half of the 1st millennium BC. e. From these periods, many mathematical tablets have been preserved, which are published and well studied.

Six years later, the Russian Cosmic Observatory "Millimetron" ("Spectrum") with a cryogenic telescope of the millimeter and infrared range of wavelengths should be launched into the earth's orbit. Working both in solitary mode and in conjunction with ground observatory, the “millimetron” will allow you to explore black and white holes, molenous holes, pulsars, relict radiation, understand the structure of the universe at the dawn of its occurrence.

Lars of the Lars, where Plimpton 322, containing calculations of pyfagor triples, was allegedly found. Imagine the Babylonian sage - a bearded old man in the stars covered with stars, with a pointed cap that measures the heaven. The image developed in illustrations for the eastern discoveries of the century in the nineteenth - historical Babylonian mathematicians in the 2nd millennium BC. e. They looked, of course, completely different.

Svetlana Borinskaya The birthday report in China at the end of 2018 two girls with an edited genome caused a wave of comments about the violation of ethical scientific norms and the inadmissibility of the production of experiments with unknown consequences in humans, especially on embryos that will become children.

See also comment by Boris Stern For 13 years (from 2002 to the forced closure), the Dynasty Foundation has carried out a non -standard program to support Russian scientific youth working in the field of theoretical physics. The choice of such a specialization was probably associated with the traditionally high concentration of intelligence in the ranks of its representatives - in the key slogan of the fund, this was called “brains” for clarity.