Vitaly Matsarsky Sometimes curious coincidences happen. The number of our wonderful newspaper on October 4 with my note about David Boma was released, as the Nobel Physics Prize winners were immediately announced. And it was awarded to three scientists who in practice showed that Boma’s views are most likely wrong. The essence of their work can be found out from an interview with Boris Stern with Stanislav Straup or from the excellent article by Alexei Levin on the site "Elements.ru" 1 .

The Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2022 became the Americans Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi from Stanford University and Karl Barry Sharples (Karl Barry Sharples) from the Skripps Research Institute, as well as the diver Morten P. Meldal) from the University of Copenhagen. The Nobel Committee evaluated their contribution to the creation of the so-called click-chemistry and bio-orthonal chemistry, which on Wednesday, October 5, was announced by representatives of the Swedish Caroline Institute 1 .

The compiler of the series "Dunes of Denis Peskov" tells about the two finalists of the Award "Enlightener.

The Swedish biologist Svante Paabo 1 (Svante Pääbo) received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "For discoveries regarding the genomes of extinct hominin and the evolution of people." Commented by Mikhail Gelfand , Dok. Biol. Sciences, member of the European Academy, deputy head of the TRV-hunger. Talked by Alexei Ognev . Video recording of interviews: youtu.be/vipzbj5fjge . Svante Paabo and the object of his passion ( mpg.de ) - It happened!

On October 12, the jury called the finalists of the XV season of the prize of Dmitry Zimin "Enlightener" and the III Prize "Enlightener. Transport"-in each of them the 8 best science books in two nominations were named: "Natural and exact sciences" and "Humanities". In the nomination “Natural and exact sciences” the “Enlightener” prize by finalists became: Maria Kondratova . Invisible guard. How immunity protects us from external and internal threats. -M.: Alpina Non-Fikshn, 2022.

(Continuation. Beginning see in the TRV-FUND No. 363: TRV-SCIENCE.ru/2022/10/bajki-aviapassazhira) On the one hand, the flight on the plane has long ceased to be something out of the ordinary. On the other hand, many people never once in their lives rise into the air in the womb of the “steel bird”. One friend of mine - a completely modern man with higher education - first sat on a plane of 35 years old ... And indeed - there is something mystical in the process of flying on an airplane.

Alexander Markov Mediaarcheology - today already venerable discipline, which has its own classics, such as Friedrich Kittler and Siegfried Tsilinski. Inspired by Michel Foucault’s thoughts about a word, knowledge and power as various means that lead to a change of cultural eras and immediately make people captives of a new era, media masseologists try to find those moments when a person, mastering the new media, makes a free choice between them without being captured.

There was a period of my life when I was terribly afraid of flying. The level of this fear exceeded all other fears from imaginable and unimaginable dangers. Moreover, the first time I was taken on an airplane was when I was eleven months old—one might say, instead of being baptized in a water font, I was immersed in an air one. And then, as if as punishment for true and imaginary phobias, I was forced to fly at least twice a month.

Dmitry Bayuk Writing a review of the book of Alexei Semikhatov, which included in the short list of the Enlightener Award, for me at the same time both pleasant and scary: we have been familiar with more than forty years, written in it more than once, my name is even mentioned in the preface as the name of one of the co-authors of some chapters, but as pleasant as it is also limiting in criticism.

Alexander Rechkin The English science fiction writer Brian Olds and researcher of the genre David Wingrov wrote a book about the history of science fiction “Picnic for the Trillion of the Years”.

The processed image of Europe, obtained by the Junocam camera during the span of Juno on September 29. NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSSS/BJöRN Jónsson “Juno” flew past Europe on September 29, 2022, getting closer to her up to 350 km, while “Galileo” managed to approach this satellite up to 200 km.

Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeillinger received the Nobel Prize in physics, “for experiments with tangled photons, evidence of Bell's inequalities and laying the foundations of quantum computer science.” Comments Stanislav Straup , Art. scientific. sore. Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University, head of the group of the Russian quantum center. Boris Stern talked. Video recording of interviews: YouTube.com/watch?v=2SE9QPDSS7C.

Alexander Meshcheryakov By the way, all the Japanese wear gauze masks in public. They say that to get sick less. But I know that this is excuses. In fact, they need masks for completely different: in order to contract with smoking and talk less with strangers in transport. Personally, I did not bring a single acquaintance in the Japanese train. The Japanese believe that electric trains are needed for another. Well, let them think, God is a judge.

Dear editors! I was already convinced that my letters in my beloved newspaper read that they listen to them in the highest echelons of our power. And here is another certificate. At the end of July, I wrote about the case of the RANEPA. If you remember, there, due to fictitious labor contracts, the detention of the leadership began. It came to the point that the rector of the RANEPA Vladimir Mau was detained at the end of June.

Alla Belyak Alla Belyak , translator of Roman Annie Erno, “Years,” spoke about the creative path and features of the style of the new Nobel Prize in Literature. Talked by Alexei Ognev . - At first, the banal question: in your opinion, this decision of the Nobel Committee was predictable, especially taking into account the current situation? Someone even knocked to the laureates of Sergey Zhadan ... - You know, Annie Erno was listed in the list of candidates for the Nobel Prize for a long time.