Where will cultural evolution lead us?
How do random variability, heredity, and selection work in cultural evolution? Wars as fluctuations in cultural evolution, lessons from Franklin's…
How the USSR missed the IT revolution.
Episode 1: Cybernetics
Despite its reputation as a scientific and technological superpower, the Soviet Union missed every phase of the 20th century’s information…
Elena Bunina: «I was saved by mathematics»
«I will not go back: I cannot work in a country that is at war with its neighbors,» Yelena Bunina,…
«I will not be able to return to Russia…»
Philologist Boris Gasparov, professor at Columbia University in New York spoke in an interview with T-invariant about his new book,…
Sergey Abramov
Date of incident: April 12, 2023 Type of violation: arrest Institution: A. K. Ailamazyan Program Systems Institute of RAS Summary:…
Stubbornness of Fact VS Loyalty of Lies
Why is it important for global science to maintain ties with the scientific community in Russia? Arguments of Associate Professor…
Valery Zvegintsev, Anatoly Maslov, Alexander Shiplyuk
Date of incident: April 7, 2023 Type of violation: arrest Institution: Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian Branch of…
Pavel Kolosnitsyn
Date of incident: April 6, 2023 Type of violation: fine Institution: Novgorod University Synopsis: In January, police drew up an…
Philosophical scooter: How does academic solidarity work in an age of catastrophe?
The war caused the largest and fastest «brain drain» from Russia since the early 1990s. What is the peculiarity of…
Letter from Billionaires: Stop Artificial Intelligence!
The head of Tesla and SpaceX Ilon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and more than a thousand experts signed an…
Free university cannot be deemed «undesirable»
The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation announced that the Free University had been given the status of an…