When the parental community of Russia fought against the introduction of the GIS "Contingent" in schools
Conversation with the scientific editor of the Expert magazine, Alexander Nikolaevich Privalov. The conversation was about the real goals of educational reform, about what knowledge and abilities the graduates of recent years have in reality, disenfranchised teachers, interested and disinterested parents. And also about what is needed to revive the Russian secondary school
In a sensational interview with TEDxTuscon, Dr. George Land
The reader of the "Mouthpiece of Totalitarian Propaganda" sent a voluminous material on the problem of homeopathy
If you are hoping to hide from surveillance, or at least keep your feelings to yourself, you can forget about it. Today we are betrayed by everything - from breathing to the peculiarities of gait and heart rate. Big Brother can not only find us wherever we are, but even find out what emotions we are experiencing. How exactly are we calculated?
The published material in no way has a personal relationship to Kommersant. It's just that, by tradition, personal publications are dedicated to this nickname. And this time, his comments suggested the need to try to piece together some of the entries
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In the Dvinsko-Pinezhsky interfluve of the Arkhangelsk region, the pristine forests are being destroyed rapidly and far from prying eyes, public control. This is a national disaster that exceeds all threats from the Shies landfill
The Russians believe that the Chinese are predatory cutting down our forest. In fact, this is not entirely true: they only do what our authorities allow them
I have 20 liters of water behind me in a knapsack forest fire extinguisher. There is a mask on the face, a helmet on the head, non-flammable clothing with long sleeves. I feel hot. I walk along a large field of hummock, along which smoke flows from the bottom
General informatization has reached one of the most closed and criminogenic segments of the Russian economy - the forest. Everybody has heard reports of gigantic deforestation being sent from Siberia to China, and the internet is full of photographs showing a bare plain in areas where forests have recently grown
"Forty forty-ruble teachers can lead to complete decomposition not only of the group of street children, but also of any group." This quote is one of the most memorable, in my humble opinion, included in the book - a collection of works from 8 volumes. The author of this book is one of the most prominent Soviet educators of the 20th century. Now his system is so popular in Europe, in Asian countries, but not relevant in Russia. This now and today we can do everything - consciously forget, erase, not accepting
Rumors that the COVID-19 quarantine will be reintroduced in September flashes in our information field. We decided to figure out what they are connected with and whether there are real prerequisites for the second wave and new restrictions
The tragic news of a huge explosion in Beirut, which took the first lines of news resources, raises natural questions: how could this have happened, what exploded there, due to what factors are such incidents possible? To figure it out, let's take a closer look at the properties of ammonium nitrate and the dangers associated with it
The most important opportunity that each of us has is the ability to live consciously. If you take a close look at how our modern life works, especially in cities, you will notice that it itself is created in such a way that you are almost always unconscious
How are things going with your acid-base balance? Did you know that our body has an ideal pH of 7.365?
Jerusalem artichoke tubers, in addition to a wide range of vitamins and mineral salts, contain proteins, sugars, pectin substances, organic acids, and, which is especially valuable, a plant analogue of insulin - the polysaccharide inulin
Our ancestors received sugar in fruits for several months of the year
Tradition has it that Julien de La Mettrie, a French physician and ardent supporter of hedonism, died of a truffle pâté at a feast in his honor. They also say that Empress Catherine I undermined her health due to revelry at feasts
Completely abandoning industrial processed food is a task for those who are strong in spirit and those who do not hesitate to farm and agree to exchange a supermarket and a metropolis for a vegetable garden and the silence of a rural backwater
It's no secret that the so-called Western diet - which involves the consumption of large quantities of meat, eggs, fried and salty foods, bread, fatty dairy products, sweet desserts and drinks, chips and other "unhealthy goodies" - is harmful to our health. Previous studies have shown that this type of diet, in particular, affects reproductive functions and increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and cancer
Most food emulsifiers affect mental health and cause behavioral disorders in humans. Emulsifiers lead to chronic intestinal inflammation, obesity and changes in the composition of the intestinal flora
The main source of chemical effects on our body is the food with which we come into closest contact. Food is important for any living organism, but people perceive it on a completely different level than any other organism
He himself gets up to the stove. He bakes delicious hearth bread and specialty buns with poppy seeds in front of customers. Treats for free. Feeding fellow countrymen with REAL bread is an entrepreneur's fix idea. His “Gridnev Bread Manufactory” is successfully growing and developing. And he is only surprised when he hears that small business is in our pen
In the 1980s, New York was hell. More than 1,500 grave crimes were committed there every day: 6-7 murders a day. It was dangerous to walk the streets at night, and it was risky to ride the subway even during the day
The plans of global transhumanist foresight officers to introduce electronic devices into human bodies and to fully control their emotions and minds continue to be consistently implemented
Since the middle of the last century, provoking primitivism among young people - in dress, speech, level of knowledge, but above all in feelings - Western civilization has acquired a "magic wand" that en masse educates consumers of those goods that were most profitable for business. Eastern civilization, after the collapse of the USSR, also did not keep itself waiting and seized on it
There is a huge mythology associated with education and introduction to knowledge. They broaden the horizons, make it possible to develop their own opinions, form a full-fledged person, add him to all the richness of culture. But the widely ramified systems of mass education of the twentieth century put on the conveyor the release, according to the term put into use by Solzhenitsyn, "education", specialists who do not know anything but their business
Logic is the science of how to think. However, in our education system, thinking is prohibited. You can only read and memorize what is written in textbooks and approved by the educational program. If someone has forgotten, then he is obliged to look again at the textbook and learn. Therefore, the science of logic does not fit into this education system
Remembering my youth and comparing myself today with that teenager - a product of the 90s, I involuntarily come to the conclusion that life gave me everything I wanted then and even more. The understanding that benefits reflect only social status, and not personality traits, has come over the years. For us, children of the 90s, the only dream was to get out of poverty, to get out of this “terrible” country as soon as possible, where everyone - parents, teachers, the state - constantly “demand” and give nothing in return
In the early 1960s, psychologist Albert Bandura decided to find out if children tend to imitate aggressive behavior from adults. He took a huge inflatable clown doll, which he named Bobo, and made a film of how an adult aunt scolds him, pounds, kicks and even hits him with a hammer. Then he showed the video to a group of 24 preschoolers. The second group was shown a video without violence, and the third was shown nothing at all
A toxic office environment not only interferes with productive work, but can also ruin physical and mental health. In this case, a toxic environment is not understood as a violation of SanPiN, but a "rotten" psychological climate in the team
Retired Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman co-authored a book with Gloria de Gaetano entitled Don't Teach Our Children to Kill. We will declare a campaign against violence on TV, in movies and computer games. " After hearing the colonel speak at the Shock Violence conference sponsored by the New Jersey Psychological Association, Air Weekly reporters interviewed him
Early development - myth, fashion or necessity? Does the child really need early development and what could be this development for your child personally?
There are now more than 30 percent of them in the world. In Russia, they say, only 18
One of the main obstacles to development is self-justification. It doesn't matter what development is for a person, the question is what he wants, but cannot get it. It can be beautiful girls, travel, and even a more comfortable life
By imposing sanctions on Russia and banning the supply of advanced technologies to our country, the United States hopes to weaken us, destroy the economy and prevent the creation of advanced military equipment. They say that we cannot do without American technology! But, in fact, on the contrary, America owes many of its most sensational achievements, including in the military field, to Russia
Along with the development of mankind, the methods of warfare in military conflicts are also changing. Armament is becoming more and more technological, and the use of robots and unmanned aerial vehicles for solving tactical tasks has become commonplace. The Novate.ru review contains seven interesting developments that increase the combat power of special forces soldiers and law enforcement officers
The famous Russian popularizer of science, author of the model of the numerical growth of humanity Sergey Kapitsa tells about why history is accelerating all the time, whether we are threatened with a demographic catastrophe and how the world will change even during the lifetime of this generation
The facts that threaten a major scandal with the participation of the governments of entire countries and stars of the first magnitude have been made public. The World Wildlife Fund, whose emblem in the form of a cute panda is known by almost everyone, is accused of organizing murder, torture and punitive actions. Moreover, his activities are described by analogy with the special services. What is behind these accusations?