Category: Progress

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One of the winners of the George Gamow Prize this year was Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, a professor at the Paris School of Economics. In an interview with T-invariant, she told how modern economic science works, whether it is possible to evaluate the results of sanctions and what studies of Goebbels’ propaganda can tell us about the…

…but it is possible to sell authorship. How a Moscow company forges scientific articles and places them in foreign journals

Oct 29, 2024

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Recently, American scientist Sam Payne received a review of his own article published three years earlier, but now its authors were five employees of Sechenov University. So the world scientific community learnt about the Russian company “International Publisher”, which is engaged in the production of fake scientific articles and places them for money in major…

Global Challenges and the Search for Harmony in the Context of the Sakharov Paradigm

Oct 23, 2024

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in Chronicles of persecution of scientists, Contrevolution, Everything’s complicated, Interview, Invasion, Investigations, Patriotic notes from the underground, Point of view, Progress, War, Сreators

The problems of various countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Israel, the USA and China, are part of the global agenda of the future of humanity, including technological and humanistic issues that are being revised today and worry many of us. About the new “dispute of physicists and lyricists” in the context of the Sakharov paradigm “Peace,…

The winners of the 2024 Georgiy Gamov Prize have been announced

Oct 22, 2024

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The Russian-American Association of Scholars has announced the names of the winners of the prize, which is awarded to members of the Russian-speaking scientific diaspora. This year they were Professor Ekaterina Zhuravskaya of the Paris School of Economics and Professor Vladimir Vapnik of Columbia University.

Selecting the best vs academic equality: why DEI practices are not catching on in Germany

Oct 14, 2024

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in Chronicles of persecution of scientists, Contrevolution, Everything’s complicated, Interview, Invasion, Investigations, Patriotic notes from the underground, Point of view, Progress, War, Сreators

A recent article by a group of American professors on the introduction of DEI into university practice in the United States has caused a wide resonance. To what extent can DEI be considered a purely American phenomenon, and to what extent has it been assimilated by academic communities in other countries? Germany is a curious…

Não mais tolerância ao regime de Putin!
Um apelo dos acadêmicos do mundo

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Há dois anos, Vladimir Putin iniciou uma agressão militar em larga escala não provocada contra a Ucrânia, resultando em mortes e destruição nunca vistas desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial. A guerra contra a Ucrânia coincidiu com uma repressão crescente e severa à dissidência política e à liberdade de expressão dentro da Rússia. Recentemente, o mundo…

Basta tollerare il regime di Putin! Un appello di studiosi del mondo intero

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Due anni fa, senza aver subito attacchi precedenti di sorta, Vladimir Putin ha lanciato un’aggressione militare su vasta scala contro l’Ucraina; ne sono risultati massacri e distruzioni a livelli mai visti dalla Seconda guerra mondiale. La guerra contro l’Ucraina ha coinciso con una repressione grave e sempre maggiore contro il dissenso politico e la libertà…

Aucune tolérance envers le régime de Poutine !
Un appel d’universitaires du monde entier

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Aucune tolérance envers le régime de Poutine ! Un appel d’universitaires du monde entier

¡Basta de tolerancia con el régimen de Putin!
Un llamamiento de los académicos del mundo

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in Chronicles of persecution of scientists, Contrevolution, Everything’s complicated, Interview, Invasion, Investigations, Patriotic notes from the underground, Point of view, Progress, War, Сreators

Hace dos años, Vladimir Putin inició una agresión militar no provocada contra Ucrania, causando muerte y destrucción inéditos desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La guerra contra Ucrania coincidió con una creciente y severa represión de la disidencia política y la libertad de expresión en Rusia. Hace poco, el mundo se ha quedado sobrecogido por la…

Black Shaheds will be assembled in Togliatti instead of cars

Dec 7, 2023

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In Togliatti, in the local special economic zone (SEZ), they can build another plant for the assembly of Iranian combat drones. There is no official information about this and in words the plans are purely peaceful. The EFKO group of companies, the founder of enterprises producing drones in Tolyatti, pretends that it has nothing to…

Igor Efimov: “It will take decades to restore Russian science after Putin…”

Nov 15, 2023

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How do Russian-speaking scientists work in America today during the war in Ukraine? Why is it important to maintain contact with colleagues from the countries of the former USSR? What awaits Russian science after Putin? We talked about these and other topics with Igor Efimov, professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Northwestern University in…

And Jupiter is ours, and Europe is ours

Nov 1, 2023

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The Special Economic Zone (SEZ) “Alabuga”, which has already hit the pages of all the world’s media this year with a series of high-profile scandals, this time swung at the solar system and acted as a collective Ostap Bender for all the money – namely 491 trillion rubles . Leading Russian astrophysicists responded by recalling…

Andrei Zorin and Victor Chernozhukov are the new George Gamow award laureates

Oct 12, 2023

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G.A. Gamow award, established by the Russian-American Association of Scientists (RASA-America, Russian-American Science Association) in memory of the outstanding Russian-American physicist, Professor Georgy Antonovich Gamow (1904-1968) for 2023 is awarded to Andrei Zorin, professor at the Oxford University (The United Kingdom) and Victor Chernozhukov, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

«Are there now enough Curies, Bohrs, and Rutherfords to help scientists from these three countries?» Natalia Berloff on the new symbolism of the Gamow Prize

Jun 11, 2023

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In 2023, the Georgy Gamow Prize will again be awarded to two scientists. The organizer, the Russian-American Association of Scientists (RASA), announced the start of the collection of nominations. This year, the Gamov Prize committee was chaired by Cambridge (UK) professor Natalia Berloff.

Letter from Billionaires: Stop Artificial Intelligence!

Apr 4, 2023

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The head of Tesla and SpaceX Ilon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and more than a thousand experts signed an open letter calling for a halt in the development of a «giant artificial intelligence.» The text of the letter was published by Future of Life Institute. T-Invariant asked experts and AI to comment on this…

Steampunk and a Thinking Crystal

Mar 17, 2023

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