The most expensive digital work of art sold at auction today was the collage “Daily: the first 5000 days” by Mike Winkelmann, better known as digital artist Bill. On March 11, 2020, the collage was sold for 69.3 million dollars. Although the work is freely available on the Internet, Vinesh Sundaresan, who paid for it, known in the cryptocurrency community as MetaKovan, is the confirmed owner of the original. The most expensive structure According to the Guinness Book of Records, the most expensive construction was the Itaipu dam and hydroelectric power station on the Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay. It was built from 1984 to 2007 and spent a total of $72 billion. 40 thousand workers took part in the construction. It involved changing the riverbed, as a result of which more than 50 million tons of earth and rocks were moved. Four stone crushing centers and six concrete
Day: December 26, 2021
A member of the HRC urged to end the “dangerous experiment” with the training of nine-year-old Alice Teplyakova at Moscow State University
Member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), Vice-President of the Russian Society of Psychologists Alexander Asmolov called for an end to the “dangerous experiment” with the training of nine-year-old Alice Teplyakova at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He wrote a letter addressed to the head of the HRC Valery Fadeev, Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalskova and Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, in which he asked to contact the authorities to suspend Teplyakova’s studies at the university. There is a high probability that such a socio-pedagogical experiment may lead to violations of the mental and psychophysiological development of Alice Teplyakova. I ask you, colleagues, to come out with a proposal to the state bodies authorized to suspend the dangerous socio-psychological experiment on studying at Alice Teplyakova’s higher school.Alexander Asmolov According to him, the education of a nine-year-old child at a university does not take into account his age characteristics. As Asmolov wrote, the
Putin: Russia's response to NATO's rejection of security guarantees may be very different
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In Russia, less than 24 thousand infected with COVID-19 were identified
Regions are leaders in the number of new cases: Moscow — 2180 (for all time – 2,019,602), Saint Petersburg – 1851 (843 685), Moscow region — 1565 (634 738), Krasnoyarsk Territory — 570 (170 439), Sverdlovsk region — 564 (195,963). Per day in 968 patients died in Russia, 981 yesterday. The total number of deaths reached 304,218. 37,285 people recovered during the day, a total of 10,392,020. This week, the authorities reported that the level of collective immunity in Russia has reached 60.4%. In November, a new strain of coronavirus called “omicron” began to spread in the world. In Russia, more than 40 cases of infection with this strain have been identified. Scientists believe that with omicron, the probability of a severe course of the disease and hospitalization is 50-70% lower than with the delta strain. The news is being updated.
In Russia, electronic passports are planned to be issued in January 2023
“Currently, as part of the ongoing work on the phased introduction of a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation, issued in the form of a plastic card containing an electronic data carrier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, together with the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, as well as with interested state bodies, other bodies and organizations, are working out detailed requirements for the procedure for issuing and processing electronic passports. The planned date for the start of issuing electronic passports is January 2023,” she said on the radio “Militia Wave”. Kazakova added that the number of issued passports of the new model, first of all, will depend on the desire of citizens to receive them, but, according to forecasts, at the initial stage their number will be at least 100 thousand.
Folk signs for December 26: should we wait for heat
On December 26 , the church honors the memory of the memory of St. Arkady Vyazemsky and Novotorzhsky, who lived in the XI century. In Russia, it was believed that on this day the “evil spirit” was plotting – sending whirlwinds and blizzards on people. The weather was watched very closely by the people, because it was believed that it was possible to find out what the whole year would be like. What is the weather on December 26 — this will be the whole of January, December 27 corresponds to February, March 28, and so on. Frost indicates the approach of frost and blizzards. The stars are clearly visible in the sky – it will get colder soon. Windows are sweating — there is warming. Birds boldly sit down on the snow and jump on the ground — another sure sign that the frosts will recede. The sun sets in
A family in the US has invented a way to celebrate together despite COVID-19
The family of Christa Larocque, who lives on Long Island in the USA, was going to celebrate Christmas. Unfortunately, Krista’s sister got infected with coronavirus and could not sit with relatives at the common table. But the cheerful Krista came up with an unexpected way out. The girl who caught the virus was put in a transparent box and allowed to have dinner with everyone. “We really wanted to spend the Christmas holidays with her,” Larocque said in a Storyful comment. The woman added that all the people in the video live in the same house, so the chances of getting infected for them were no higher than usual. New Year’s sale: discounts up to – 60% Anna Lysenko Even more interesting things about people
The number of new cases of coronavirus infection in China has reached its highest since January
As specified in the distributed statement, 76 of the newly identified infected came from abroad. Fever, cough and malaise are observed in 206 people, the remaining 29 are asymptomatic carriers. According to published statistics, over the past seven days, the number of infected with symptoms in local medical institutions has increased by an average of 2.5% per day and amounts to 2,011 patients, the increase over the past 24 hours has reached 6.9%. Only nine of the cases are in serious condition. Officially, 101 thousand people have been ill in mainland China for the entire time, not counting asymptomatic patients (they are in The PRC is not taken into account in the final infection statistics). There have been no deaths from covid in the country since January 25, 4,636 people have died since the beginning of the pandemic. Among the regions of China, the most difficult epidemic situation is observed in
Portrait of a News user Mail.ru
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Kuleba announced the dominance of Russia in the Sea of Azov
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