“You sleep all night, otherwise you will not sleep. This way and that way. I got up, walked around, lay down. He lay down, walked around, got up, "- the song of the Soviet rock group" Sounds of Mu "describes the familiar to many difficulties with falling asleep. This condition most often occurs in response to exposure to stressors. Somnologist Mikhail Poluektov explains why it is so difficult to get enough sleep during stress and why sleep deprivation itself is a stress factor
A very cool article on parenting and overcoming major parenting / learning challenges. Both the main problems and the ways to solve them are spelled out, which is much more important. And I completely agree with the author
The interview with Vadim Kochkin, winner of the Leaders of Russia competition specializing in Healthcare, in which he shared personal examples of how not to quarrel with loved ones during a long quarantine, aroused the interest of many. Therefore, we continue to discuss the problems of the current quarantine crisis
Children don't like to do their homework, and it's no secret. But it makes kids smarter, you say. And we will answer that it is not always, and explain why
Chimera - this is the name of a creature that consists of the cells of two genetically different organisms. For centuries they were considered fiction, myth, sick imagination of ancient peoples, but now the hybrid of man and animal has become a reality
A British-American gene editing company released millions of genetically modified mosquitoes containing the dominant lethal gene from the laboratory every week for 27 months in the Bahia region
Tens of thousands of male mosquitoes are released into the wild in Florida. But these are not ordinary mosquitoes: They are genetically modified, and they are specially released throughout the state. It's part of a plan to fight disease by releasing 1 billion mosquitoes across two states, but it makes some people shiver
How do you imagine plants mutants? Maybe so? … Or like this: … In fact, you see products with mutant plants in the store every day and buy them
Why can tomatoes of domestic and other production purchased in the supermarket in the winter months taste like grass, and the most beautiful radish is strangely bitter in the mouth and provokes nausea? Trying to diversify our diet with what we think are healthy vegetables, we can do ourselves a disservice during the winter months. It's time to figure out which products on supermarket shelves in winter are probably stuffed with chemicals
Due to the advances in genetics, it begins to seem that soon we will be able to access something that was previously not subject to - to "design" people even before they were born. To ask the necessary qualities, if they are not given by nature, predetermining the opportunities so necessary in life
The series "Chernobyl" is confidently located at the top of all possible ratings of the best premieres of 2019. Many appreciated the thoroughness with which the creators approached the reconstruction of the tragic circumstances of the accident at the nuclear power plant. Nevertheless, not everything in the series is so smooth, and the audience drew attention to a lot of details that clearly did not correspond to reality
In June 2021 all over the world, including Russia, the International Classifier of Diseases of the eleventh revision will come into force
When it comes to sodomy and its threats to Russia, the words of the average man in the street can look something like this: “I don’t understand what the danger is on a national scale? I personally am completely indifferent to homosexuals. " The main threats of the sodomite invasion of Russia will be outlined below very briefly
Are you against the dominance of the so-called "gay culture"? Then you should know who is promoting and sponsoring this "culture"
A study of nearly half a million genomes has identified five DNA markers associated with sexual behavior, but none of them alone determine a person's sexuality. The results show how complex human sexuality is. Another challenge for researchers is how to explain the nuances of such a delicate topic to the general public
The political rhetoric of LGBT activists is built on three groundless postulates that affirm the “normality”, “innateness” and “immutability” of homosexual attraction. Despite generous funding and numerous studies, this concept has not received a scientific basis
In the United States, there is a real crisis of the male sex: American men are not only beginning to give way to women on almost all fronts, but even undergoing physiological changes - including a decrease in testosterone levels
Movement, dexterity, synchronicity: we understand how music affects the brain, how the brain of musicians differs from the usual one, and what can playing musical instruments give us?
Every time a person begins to learn something new, he faces difficulties. You need to allocate time for a new activity, define a goal, overcome obstacles, forget, memorize and again forget new knowledge. Daria Abramova, CEO of the Kodabra online programming school, talks about how to better learn new things from a scientific point of view
The news published below is certainly important and interesting. There is only one thing but … In whose hands will such a tool for changing the type of "Homo sapiens" be found? This is perhaps the main question
Communication is much more than just the words we speak. It also consists of implicit messages expressed through non-verbal behavior - facial expressions, gestures, voice, posture, respect for personal space, looks and even smells. These signals can provide clues for a better understanding of a person, his motives and reasons for behavior
We thought for a long time what to present to the most discerning subscribers who will solve the difficult riddle about the theme of the Sunday edition. Someone will rejoice at a rare book, someone needs a new phone to replace the old one with a cracked screen. In general, we decided to leave the monetary equivalent, as it is not trivial
The tenth anniversary of the Fukushima accident has generated unanimously cheerful comments in the Western press: wind and solar energy have become cheaper than nuclear energy, so those countries that are still developing nuclear power plants are acting unwisely. Nevertheless, a careful analysis of the numbers shows that the reality is sharply different from the proposed optimistic picture
Compared to the topic of global warming or even a very hypothetical threat of a collision of the Earth with the asteroid Apophis, the peak of oil production
The food industry does not stand still, and now we are already beginning to fear that soon the producers will feed us with oil cutlets. And, by the way, we are not unreasonably afraid, since oil is already used to produce important products that are used both in the food industry and in home cooking
Few people know that once Soviet engineers gave Afghans light, warmth and housing. They built a huge number of social and industrial facilities in Afghanistan: the most powerful hydroelectric power station, oil depots, factories and airfields, whole residential neighborhoods
It is unlikely that in our time you can find a person who has not heard anything about allergies. Alas, in one form or another, this disease occurs very, very often. Unfortunately, even allergy sufferers themselves have little idea of what exactly they suffer from
Alexander Berezin figured out a difficult topic and told how radiation affects a person, how many lives Chernobyl actually claimed, and why one of the most terrible consequences of the atomic disaster in Pripyat is a slowdown in the development of nuclear energy
Reason … For many centuries, its nature interested the leading minds of mankind. Probably everyone who is watching these footage now considers himself a reasonable person. Indeed, in the process of viewing, the brain performs the most complex operations of perception and analysis of speech, various images appear in our imagination, and, thanks to this, we can reflect on what we have seen
Of all the threats to which our planet is exposed today, one of the most alarming is the inevitable approach of the world's oceans to an ecological catastrophe. The oceans are undergoing evolution in the opposite order, turning into barren primeval waters as they were hundreds of millions of years ago
Using a personal example, the author shows the natural farming system. Thanks to it, the soil fertility is not only preserved, but also restored, and the yield increases. Mineral fertilizers are not used, which preserves the purity of Nature and preserves human health
Our last video about cannabis https://youtu.be/VEXEXhn-Dsk YouTube does not show people under the age of 18, but, friends, this is the majority of the YouTube audience! Millions of people remain in the dark. We hope that the older comrades will retell them the content of the previous episode, but we will add interesting details to this story that were not included in that episode
Senegalese farmers have traditionally grown peanuts, sorghum, millet and corn using the monoculture and slash-and-burn method. It was customary to give trees for livestock feed. And so the poor soil turned into lifeless sand. Young people left the country, and hunger became a daily reality
With the approach of the summer cottage season, many amateur gardeners begin to think about organizing their site. After all, everyone wants to get the harvest as early as possible, regardless of weather conditions and time of year. A greenhouse will help to cope with these tasks in the best possible way, the design of which will protect the plants from the harmful effects of atmospheric phenomena, while at the same time it will significantly increase the yield. But for this you need to know some rules and nuances, without which its effectiveness will be zero
John Jandai thinks we're all crazy
In mid-April, Elon Musk and the startup Neuralink launched a fantasy video: a monkey with a microchip in his head controls a computer game using his thoughts. The cursor moved where the monkey wanted, but the animal did not need paws to play the game
Zamyatkin's site has not known shovels for about twenty years. According to him, in ten years the fertile layer has deepened to 30-40 cm.The soil has become so loose that the pegs for tomatoes do not need to be driven in - they are easily stuck
Ray Bradbury's story about the later famous butterfly, whose death in the past significantly changed the future, appeared in 1952. Azimov's story, similar in storytelling, is in 1958. In both, we are talking about how very small, extremely small changes in the surrounding reality can cause serious consequences in the future
On February 9, to the 100th anniversary of the death of the admiral, the Supreme Ruler of Russia, the documentary “Kolchak's Gold” was shown on the Russia 1 channel. Like all films about the revolution in Russia, of which I was the author, he caused sharp controversy, a clash of opinions. This topic still worries many today, it determines a lot in our attitude to the past, present and future of our country
“In order to somehow cover up the impending economic crisis, a special operation called COVID-19 was launched,” says Professor Valentin Katasonov. In an interview with BUSINESS Online, he discusses why the "owners of money" are expanding their attack on humanity, why you need to read H.G. Wells to understand the idea of the world behind the scenes, why Russia decided to launch a genetic correction program and why there are no amendments to the Russian Constitution meaning