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Matrix Mama
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.
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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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