One of the two Bogdanoff twins who hosted TV shows on French TV has died

The report notes that the former TV presenter “died in a Paris hospital.” The Bogdanoff brothers have been successfully working on French television since the late 1970s. In particular, in 1982 they were the hosts of the TV show “2002: Odyssey of the Future”. A number of the brothers’ speeches, however, were met with strong criticism from the scientific community, whose representatives regarded them as anti-scientific or pseudoscientific. Popular science books published by them were also criticized no less. In the late 1990s, the brothers defended their doctoral dissertations. However, in 2010, the National Committee for Scientific Research in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics stated that their work was not of scientific value. The real names of the brothers are Igor Yurievich and Grigory Yurievich Ostasenko-Bogdanovs. Their father is Yuri Mikhailovich Ostasenko-Bogdanov (1928-2012), a Russian artist of Tatar origin, the son of Boris Bogdanov, a military cavalryman who died during the

Scientists have proved that splash fish can count

View this post on Instagram A post by John (@sgtropicalfish) Small splash fish are quite capable of counting the amount of food, researchers from Italy found out. They chose squirrels for the experiment, as these fish very effectively get their own food, and their choice can be recorded on cameras, New Scientist reports. Noticing the prey, the fish very accurately spit into it with a jet of water at a distance of 1-2 meters to stun, and then eat. The researchers put monitors in front of the fish, which displayed different amounts of food. Almost always, the splashers spat at the monitor, on which more dots were depicted. To complicate the task, scientists created an algorithm that arbitrarily changed the size of the points and their position. For example, three dots on one monitor seemed larger than five dots on the other. Despite this, the fish still spat at the

Popova said that the delta strain still dominates in Russia

“In a very short time, the delta strain became the dominant one in the world, which it still remains today. The delta strain came to the Russian Federation with travelers, but not from India, but from the resort areas of the world where our citizens rested, and also spread quite widely. As I said, he remains dominant in the Of the Russian Federation,” she said at a meeting of the coordinating council for combating coronavirus infection under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Scientists named the most dangerous places on the bus during the pandemic

Specialists of the IBM Research Europe research center decided to find out how the virus spreads fastest in public transport. To do this, they built a model of air circulation in the bus cabin. In their study, the scientists took into account the indicators of humidity, evaporation, heat exchange of the dynamics of air and droplets, and the impact of ventilation systems. With the help of the resulting model, experts have identified the safest places, sitting on which passengers will be less likely to catch the virus. It turned out that during an unfavorable epidemiological situation, it is better to choose seats at the windows — there passengers inhale virus particles the least. In addition, sick passengers are less likely to infect others. The air they exhale is quickly picked up by the ventilation air currents and leaves the bus.  Also, passengers standing in the middle of the bus have

A video of the extraction of crystals from clay got into the Network

@pioneerpauly Pulling out a pair of crystals out of the clay! Unearthing pretty things for the first time is a neat feeling ?? ##crystals ##quartz ##fyp ♬ original sound – PioneerPauly Social media users are massively sharing a video in which several friends extract crystals from clay at a quartz deposit in Blue Springs, Arkansas. In the video, a man pulls a piece of stone sticking out of a block of clay. “It’s moving!” he repeats in anticipation. The next second it turns out that it is not a stone, but a piece of quartz in the form of an almost perfect crystal. After a few minutes, the miner finds another large crystal. At the mine of the company Avant Mining LLC, where the video was filmed, they are engaged not only in industrial quartz mining, but also let tourists into their territory who can try their luck and find

Ryabkov: Russia will put a barrier to the ongoing expansion of NATO

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A New Year’s concert from VKontakte will be shown on street screens in Moscow

On January 1, at 17:00, the main youth festive concert of the year “STAR Track: New Year VKontakte” will begin in the online community “Official Pages”. But it will be possible to watch it not only online, the show will be broadcast on the main street screens of the capital — on the facades of the cinema “October” and the hotel “Cosmos”, as well as on Taganskaya Square. The hosts of the show will be Vladimir Marconi and Alla Mikheeva, and those artists who are often listened to on VKontakte will take part in the concert. For example, the duo HammAli & Navai, whose “Bird” became the track of the year in VK Music, as well as the Big Baby Tape release BANDANA I, which he recorded with Kizaru and got into the top 10 albums. Also, their hits will be performed by “Hands up!”, “Leningrad”, Sergey Shnurov with his new

The approach of the wall of snow in the USA caught on video

Wow! This fast-moving snowstorm created whiteout conditions as it consumed Grover, Wyoming this afternoon! ?⚠️ Video sent in by: Roy Nelson#weather #stormhour #snow #wywx pic.twitter.com/bpvCVOGk0j — Nash Rhodes (@NashWX) December 27, 2021 A resident of Wyoming in the USA named Roy Nelson accidentally filmed the spectacular approach of a snow storm. If a blizzard usually starts with a small snowfall, which gradually increases, you can notice something completely opposite on the video. A snow storm moves across the field towards the mountains in a monolithic wall – about the same way as tropical downpours move after a thunderstorm collar. “Just look at it! I’ve never seen anything like it!” – the voice of one of the observers behind the scenes is heard. “It’s a snow storm,” he adds. New Year’s sale: discounts up to – 60% Anna Lysenko Even more interesting things about nature

Putin announced the high efficiency of Sputnik V against the Omicron strain

“I spoke with the head of the Gamalei Institute (Alexander Ginzburg, director of the N. F. Gamalei Center – approx. TASS), they conducted research and “Sputnik V” precisely neutralizes the new strain “omicron”. He told me that only the clinic can give a definitive answer to the question to what extent, but the level of neutralization is very high,” Putin said (quoted by TASS). Earlier, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) reported that, according to preliminary data, Sputnik V demonstrates high virus neutralizing activity against Omicron. Revaccination with Sputnik Lite significantly increases the viral neutralizing activity against omicron two to three months after administration. The scheme of vaccination and revaccination with drugs remains the same, Ginzburg said. “Omicron” was discovered in southern Africa in early November. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this variant of the virus has 32 mutations — more than all previously known. These changes increase

​​A new time capsule of 1887 was discovered under a monument in the USA

They found it! This is likely the time capsule everyone was looking for. Conservators studying it—stay tuned for next steps! (Won’t be opened today) pic.twitter.com/3lWrsPGZd2 — Governor Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) December 27, 2021 In the American city of Richmond, Virginia, at the end of December, builders discovered a new — already the second – time capsule hidden in the pedestal of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The fact that “greetings from the past” is hidden under the monument was known from historical documents stored in the local library. After dismantling the statue in September, workers found a metal box at its base, which experts carefully opened on December 23. However, what they saw put scientists at a dead end — the box itself was not copper, but lead, and instead of hundreds of artifacts left by residents of the city in 1887, they found only three books,