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Matrix Mama
The Darkness II - just as creepy as it sounds
Dying of a Broken Heart - Not Just a Euphemism
I hate Valentine’s Day. This wasn’t always the case - I used to think of it as a good excuse to drink wine and receive useless, pretty gifts - but then I grew up. Now I dread this yearly celebration of the Romance Industrial Complex every year - and am always glad when it’s over.
1The silence of the plants
The sad truth about invisibility cloaks
Spy rock - I am disappoint
Jimmy Wales has it right
Don’t pass the buck, Roskosmos!
The head of Roskomos, Vladimir Popovkin, has insinuated that the embarrassing failure of Phobos-Grunt (which I wrote about earlier) could be attributed to a shadowy plot of some kind. “I don’t want to blame anyone, but there are powerful means of affecting [the performance] of spacecraft out there,” Popovkin told Izvestia. “We cannot discount the possibility that they were used.1Look at the stars, look how they shine for you
No iPad? No Problem
One of the things that annoys me each and every holiday season is the amount of entitled whining that goes on after the kids open their presents and decide that the color of the gadget that mommy and daddy bought them this time clashes with the color of the sports car mommy and daddy bought them last time.1Angry Birds for angry Russians
Phobos-Grunt: what’s in a name?
Playing Skyrim in Russia
Matrix Mama
Girls, the stereotype decrees, are allergic to science and technology. But as a card-carrying member of the smarter sex who wears the scars from school playground "anti-nerd" bullies like a badge of honor, I'm here to tell you that myths like that are being consigned to the "delete" file of history faster than you can say... neutrinos. In this space you'll hear from me about discoveries and gadgets, breakthroughs in theory and applications in practice, about The World of The Geek in Russia and Beyond as she, and he, steadily inherit the earth.
Natalia Antonova is the deputy editor of The Moscow News.
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