Confrontation 2024, November

Penetration of Google into Russian education

Penetration of Google into Russian education

When the parental community of Russia fought against the introduction of the GIS "Contingent" in schools

The School Hole: On the Role of Current Teachers and the Degradation of Education

The School Hole: On the Role of Current Teachers and the Degradation of Education

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

Born a genius, and the school turns into a slave to the system

Born a genius, and the school turns into a slave to the system

In a sensational interview with TEDxTuscon, Dr. George Land

Homeopathy: a panacea or pure water divorce? Bulky material

Homeopathy: a panacea or pure water divorce? Bulky material

The reader of the "Mouthpiece of Totalitarian Propaganda" sent a voluminous material on the problem of homeopathy

Big Brother's technologies for tracking people

Big Brother's technologies for tracking people

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?

Our civilization is a semi-intelligent, medium-sized creature

Our civilization is a semi-intelligent, medium-sized creature

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

A brief history of the raider takeover of medicine by the pharmaceutical business

A brief history of the raider takeover of medicine by the pharmaceutical business

Information that will shock you! Mandatory for distribution

Of a million hectares, there is taiga. Theft of the Arkhangelsk forest

Of a million hectares, there is taiga. Theft of the Arkhangelsk forest

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 scale of the felling of the Russian taiga by the Chinese

The scale of the felling of the Russian taiga by the Chinese

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

Burning Russia: who is to blame for the forest fires?

Burning Russia: who is to blame for the forest fires?

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

Illegal felling of Russian forest will begin to monitor from space

Illegal felling of Russian forest will begin to monitor from space

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

Why Soviet teacher Makarenko is not taught in Russia

Why Soviet teacher Makarenko is not taught in Russia

"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

Should we wait for the second wave of coronavirus?

Should we wait for the second wave of coronavirus?

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

Scientific view: Features of the explosion in Beirut

Scientific view: Features of the explosion in Beirut

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

Obscene language in the arsenal of ideological enemies

Obscene language in the arsenal of ideological enemies

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

17 dangerous symptoms: what upsets the acid-base balance?

17 dangerous symptoms: what upsets the acid-base balance?

How are things going with your acid-base balance? Did you know that our body has an ideal pH of 7.365?

Jerusalem artichoke is a healthy substitute for potatoes

Jerusalem artichoke is a healthy substitute for potatoes

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

Food and the brain. How the sugar industry creates addiction

Food and the brain. How the sugar industry creates addiction

Our ancestors received sugar in fruits for several months of the year

Dishes that can interrupt not only the holiday, but also life

Dishes that can interrupt not only the holiday, but also life

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

Industrial food on the shelves and how to choose a healthy product?

Industrial food on the shelves and how to choose a healthy product?

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

Western Diet Leads to Hippocampus Disruption in a Week

Western Diet Leads to Hippocampus Disruption in a Week

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

How do food emulsifiers affect negative moods?

How do food emulsifiers affect negative moods?

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

Toxic foods that steal our energy

Toxic foods that steal our energy

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

Russian baker: if you want to get healthier - start with bread

Russian baker: if you want to get healthier - start with bread

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

Broken windows theory

Broken windows theory

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

Neuronet: Digital Man will replace Homo sapiens

Neuronet: Digital Man will replace Homo sapiens

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

Generation Z are absolute puppets of the consumer system

Generation Z are absolute puppets of the consumer system

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

Instead of education and knowledge, ignorance and helplessness spreads

Instead of education and knowledge, ignorance and helplessness spreads

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

Abolished logic in schools to make it easier to manipulate consciousness

Abolished logic in schools to make it easier to manipulate consciousness

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

Where modern youth grows - a shocking analysis of the teacher

Where modern youth grows - a shocking analysis of the teacher

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

Violence on screens: what conclusions does a child draw from watching violence?

Violence on screens: what conclusions does a child draw from watching violence?

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

How to be happy despite a toxic work climate

How to be happy despite a toxic work climate

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

On the influence of modern computer games: Don't teach children to kill

On the influence of modern computer games: Don't teach children to kill

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 is just a way to make money

Early development is just a way to make money

Early development - myth, fashion or necessity? Does the child really need early development and what could be this development for your child personally?

Generation Z: slaves of a digital utopia

Generation Z: slaves of a digital utopia

There are now more than 30 percent of them in the world. In Russia, they say, only 18

Self-justification is a global brake on human development

Self-justification is a global brake on human development

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

Russian roots of American inventions

Russian roots of American inventions

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

TOP 7 smart development of robots and drones for military missions

TOP 7 smart development of robots and drones for military missions

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

Why is history accelerating and are we facing a demographic catastrophe?

Why is history accelerating and are we facing a demographic catastrophe?

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

Greenpeace accused of organizing murder, torture and punitive actions

Greenpeace accused of organizing murder, torture and punitive actions

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?