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More on Weather / Ещё о погоде
I'm writing about the weather again... and I really have what to say! Я опять о погоде... и мне есть, что сказать! Suppose that you're given a number. Say, today's atmospheric pressure in Bozeman: 995...
View ArticleOn Crisis / Про кризис
A doorbell rings. The owner of the apartment opens the door and sees his neighbor with pen and paper."We're organizing a group sex. Would you like to participate?""And who will participate?""I got...
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I don't know / Я не знаю
I'm sorry, I love everyone, it's just I work nonstop, like a donkey. Простите, я всех люблю, просто я работаю, не покладая копыт. Ваш ослик. I submitted a paper, and in some time got an email saying,...
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Guinea pigs, p. 1 / Морские свинки, ч. 1
On violation of General Relativity principles on the example of guinea pigs. О нарушении законов общей теории относительности на примере морских свинок. The behavior of a small object near the black...
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Sikkim, Intro / Сикким, вводная
Estonian tourists have just returned from Himalayas. That means, in your friends page you'll soon see lots of pictures. As soon as the tourists leave Calcutta and reach their favorite large monitor....
View ArticleLytdybr / Вшфкн
It's nice to be a man. You could come home all tired and hungry and find clean dishes and cooked dinner. Хорошо быть мужчиной! Приходишь домой уставший, голодный а там посуда вымыта и ужин готов....
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On airplane accidents / Про авиакатастрофы
This post is offtopic in my diary. I was asked to make it. It's devoted to those who are afraid to fly in airplanes. :) The rest of the readers are not likely to find it interesting. Пост не по теме...
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Other America: Elk Hunting / Другая Америка: охота на оленя
"We are looking for a location during rifle season to hunt elk. We need to feed two families and really need an elk this year. If you have a location, we would be happy to pay an access fee. We really...
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My thesis has suddenly chased me from around a corner. For a grant proposals, featuring me as a postdoc, I needed a curriculum vitae. It's like a resume, but for a scientists. And suddenly it turned...
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Sikkim, Part 1 / Сикким, часть 1
This spring Estonian tourists have visited two states of India: West Bengal and Sikkim. First about Sikkim. Number 23 on the map. It is in top right. Between Nepal, Bhutan and Tibet. Этой весной...
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Halloween / Хэллоуин
I never thought assimilating could be so much fun! Никогда не думала, что ассимилироваться может быть так весело! The character is taken from here: Персонаж отсюда: (c) crimeanelf.livejournal.com,...
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Birthday / День рождения
(The author is Quino, an Argentine cartoonist.) (Автор Кино, аргентинский карикатурист.) In reality, of course, it's not that bad. In our time of disposable dishes most of cleaning is putting the...
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Life is scary! / Как страшно жить!
Today for no apparent reason a glass door in a dresser has exploded. It was where the blue bucket is: У нас сегодня ни с того ни с сего взорвалось стекло в дверце шкафа. Там, где стоит синее ведро:...
View ArticleSubtitles / Субтитры
Now with subtitles. Вот, приделала. (The songs are the classic WW2 songs and the speech is the actual announcement.) As always, my English could be corrected, I appreciate when you do it. I won't be...
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How illustrations like this are made / Как делаются такие иллюстрации
How figures of this kind are made?Как делаются иллюстрации такого рода? First, one needs an idea.Во-первых, нужна идея. Then some physical modeling.По ней делается физическая модель. Then some...
View ArticleOn Portuguese Language / Про португальский язык
It is phonetically very much alike Russian. Well, it might seem to me like that because I'm used to hearing English and Spanish all the time, and they sound less like Russian. Он фонетически очень...
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Article 7
I have visited Petersburg...Я побывала в Петербурге... ...two years ago. And I found this picture yesterday, by accident. :) It scares me to think of how many other cool things there are on the hard...
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Facebook and the size of a human pride / Фэйсбук и размер человеческой стаи
How many friends do you have in Facebook? And why this many? ;)Сколько друзей у вас в Фэйсбуке или во вКонтакте? А почему именно столько? ;) I'll begin from far away. In 1992 Robin Dunbar studied...
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Hail / Град
Yesterday we had an enormous hail. These are several stones in my hands, and they are already melting. У нас вчера был офигенный град. Вот несколько градин в моих руках. И это они уже начали таять, а...
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Drowning Does Not Look Like Drowning / Утопание не выглядит таковым
I found and translated an interesting article. I did not know that. Did you? Нашла и перевела интересную статью. Я этого не знала. А вы? Below is the original article in English, written by Mario...
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American Middle Class and Russian Immigrants / Про американский средний класс...
Many Russians think that Americans are rich people. Многие русские думают, что американцы богатый народ. This is in general true. Salaries are higher, more stuff could be bought with them, life...
View ArticleOn Snow / Про снег
When I was five or so, the night before my birthday I cried and did not want to go to sleep. Because the birthday was tomorrow and there was neither snow, nor even signs of snow anytime in the close...
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Subtitles made by CrimeanElf and Val Schuman.Субтитры сделаны мной, crimeanelf, и Валерием Шуманом. (The name of the song is after a famous Russian tongue twister: "Shla Sasha po chaucce i sosala...
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2011
By some reasons everyone congratulate each other with the New Year the night before. That's unfair, since at that time it hasn't started yet. But it has now! :) Happy New Year! Почему-то все...
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For no particular reason / Просто так
My friend, also a fan of photography, said this picture enhances everything I should be hiding. For example, chin and nose. And that it has too little makeup. He is not that wrong. From the other...
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