Nick Samoylov early years

Nobel lecture of Svetlana Alexievich

“I lived in a country where dying was taught to us from childhood. We were taught death. We were told that human beings exist in order to give everything they have, to burn out, to sacrifice themselves. We were taught to love people with weapons. Had I grown up in a different country, I couldn’t […]

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Do you like contradictions?

What the word “contradictions” is associated with? Something negative, correct? Oxford Thesaurus lists the following synonyms for contradiction: conflict, clash, disagreement, opposition, inconsistency, mismatch, and variance. It used to have a negative connotation for me too. But later it evolved due to my activity as a scientist. In the science, as you know, a contradiction […]

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Train as an identity

The dream, that you are behind the train and cannot catch up with it, familiar to many. A group provides for the identification of the individual. How can a teenager (and actually many adults as well) answer the question, who are you?

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