Popularization of science: lectures of Russian scientists
The number of fake news is growing in the world and it is becoming more and more difficult to find a source of truthful information. The demand for authenticity, quality and factual quoting has not disappeared, but it is difficult to make friends with data verification methodologies with mainstream news in an era when even serious publications are chasing clickbate. The news of politics, economics, sports and other fields, eaten away by shortcomings, is beginning to annoy, rather than attract attention. Formed information vacuum, which can fill the news of science. Manipulating scientific data is not as interesting as facts in economics and politics. Science is supported by an excellent reputation of sources - for example, there is no doubt about the credibility of the journal Nature or the accuracy of the database of biotechnological information PubMed.
Nevertheless, there is often a filter between the source of scientific data and the reader, which is responsible for the quality of publications - a journalist. You can get rid of the interlayer only if you immediately receive information from scientists. So you can do if you subscribe to the authors of interest to you. They are in social networks, but the information is not structured there, but the channels with video content, both personal and collected by ordinary people, are a valuable source of adapted data.
Maths
Savvateev Alexey Vladimirovich
One of the most famous popularizers of mathematics in Russia. The link to the channel you will find 85 lectures of Savvateev, but this is only part of his rich heritage. Here there are 55 videos about game theory, and here there are 30 more short videos about various topics, and countless more videos on various channels, among which we will mention 12 lectures on mathematics for children.
Alexey Vladimirovich is interesting not because he is a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences and an expert in the field of game theory, although this is important. His presentation of the material is interesting, he is able to interest the child, and then switch to a listener who has studied the course of mathematical analysis. He leads the “Mathematics for the Humanities” and can convey the most difficult things in simple language to any listener. Moreover, it is difficult even to establish some kind of framework in his lectures - here he, for example, tells why he was given the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2012.
Roman Mikhailov - Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, leading researcher at St. Petersburg State University, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, winner of the Russian Academy of Sciences award for young scientists, winner of the Moscow Mathematical Society and von Neumann scholarships at Princeton, author of more than 60 scientific papers and monographs. As a hobby indicates dancing, juggling, the study of ornaments and oriental languages.
One of the most unusual (one might even say eccentric) mathematicians of Russia. Mikhailov’s lecture can overload your consciousness ... and then reload and fill with new knowledge not only in the field of mathematics, but also in the cosmological understanding of being. He tells about homology and homotopy algebra, K-theory, theory of groups and group rings, category theory. In lectures, he often uses nontrivial metaphors (for example, caution, shock content), explaining complex mathematical laws.
Physics
Semikhatov Alexey Mikhailovich
Although Semikhatov defended his doctoral thesis on the topic "Conformal and topological field theories and integrable systems," but his lectures cover a large number of popular topics that are understandable to students without special training. Explains complex notions of phenomena that are “heard” - the theory of strings, Higgs boson, black holes, gravitational waves, and so on.
Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics named after A.I. Alikhanov, Professor of the Department of Theoretical Physics at MIPT Emil Akhmedov tells about physics and all the diversity of its problems.
Lectures relate to quantum mechanics, the theory of everything, cosmological constants and, in general, theoretical physics.
The medicine
Vodovozov Alexey Valerievich (hereinafter the link to the channel or to the playlist with a selection of lectures)
Alexey Vodovozov - a graduate of the Military Medical Academy, a lieutenant colonel in the medical service of the reserve. Scientific journalist, medical blogger, general practitioner, toxicologist, winner of the “Medicine in Runet” competition in the nomination “Best blog”, winner of the competition of scientific blogs in the nomination “Molecular biology-genetics-medicine”. Member of the Association of Medical Journalists, member of the Expert Council of the Harry Houdini Award, scientific editor of the Russian Pharmacy magazine.
He tells about various areas of educational medicine: antibiotics, vaccinations, pseudo-diagnostics, homeopathy, dietary supplements, "slags and parasites", toxicology. Deconstructs myths, conjectures and mistakes regarding medicine.
Anthropology
Drobyshevsky Stanislav Vladimirovich
127 lectures on the origin of man, the average duration of which is rarely less than an hour - is it worth it? Suffice it to say that since 2011, Drobyshevsky, together with scientific journalist Alexander Sokolov, is developing the well-known portal Antropogenesis.ru . The scientist himself, naturally, is engaged in anthropology. He is a Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University. MV Lomonosov, teacher and popularizer of the scientific worldview.
Since we mentioned Sokolov, we should give him a link. Although Alexander Borisovich is not a scientist, but a scientific journalist, if you are interested in lectures on the subject of human origins and the fight against pseudoscience, see the series “Scientists against myths” and “Myths about human evolution” posted on his channel.
Paleontology
Paleontologist Kirill Yeskov is known as a writer who deconstructs fantasy books. He applied the approach of historical science to the "Lord of the Rings." On the main specialization writes interesting lectures on the evolution of species.
Biology
Markov Alexander Vladimirovich
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Head of the Department of Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, leading researcher at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, author and editor of the “ Problems of Evolution ” website, winner of the main Russian award in the field of popular science literature “Educator”, winner of the Fidelity to Science Award of the Ministry Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the category "Popularizer of the Year."
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of General Biology , the leading popular science programs of Radio Liberty, one of the authors of the website Elements.Ru . In general, regalia can be listed for a very long time. The main reason why these lectures should be watched is a very good presentation of scientific achievements, history of life and evolution, answers to riddles of evolutionary biology of humans and other living beings.
Chernigovskaya Tatyana Vladimirovna
Doctor of Philology, Doctor of Biological Sciences, a scientist in the field of neuroscience and psycholinguistics, as well as the theory of consciousness. On her initiative, the educational specialization “Psycholinguistics” was opened for the first time.
The topics of Tatiana Vladimirovna’s lectures can only be conditionally attributed to biology. Her lectures are devoted to brain activity, consciousness, learning processes, speech evolution, mental lexicon, linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence and neuroscience.
Another biologist who went beyond biology. Alexander Panchin is known primarily as a popularizer of science and scientific thinking. Received the Enlightenment Award for the Sum of Biotechnology. He is a senior researcher at the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the fight against pseudoscience, a member of the organizing committee and expert council of the Harry Houdini Award, awarded for the proven manifestation of psychic abilities (has never been awarded).
Punchin destroys myths, fights pseudoscience, disavows near-science frauds, promotes a rational approach to GMOs and genetics in general.
Astrophysics
Sergey Popov - Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Leading Researcher of the Relativistic Astrophysics Department of the State Astronomical Institute. P. K. Sternberg, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is one of the most famous Russian popularizers of science with a huge number of publications both on the Internet and beyond.
Lectures are devoted to space: double and single compact objects (neutron stars, black holes), evolution and physics of stars, gravitational waves and much more. If, up to this point, you were basically not interested in the device of the Universe, look at a few lectures with an overview of recent discoveries - it is possible that with this material you will discover the "star" ukhopop.
In addition to the above title link to the playlist compiled by PostNauka, we also recommend the playlist of the Center Arche .
Astronomy
Senior Researcher at the P. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Associate Professor at the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University. For a series of scientific lectures on astronomy and astrophysics, he won the Belyaev Prize. In 2012 he became the laureate of the “Enlightener” award.
The main topics of scientific publications are star clusters, star formation processes, physics of the interstellar medium, objects of the solar system. But lectures on the level of complexity are available to any listener. He speaks mainly about basic publicly available things: about the history of astronomy, telescopes, the study of planets, the search for extraterrestrial civilizations, and so on.
Physiology
Dubynin Vyacheslav Albertovich
Professor Dubynin works as a leading researcher at the Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University. He teaches at the biological, medical and psychological faculties of several Moscow universities.
In his lectures he talks about the anatomy of the central nervous system, the physiology of higher nervous activity and sensory systems, various areas of brain physiology and neuropharmacology.
Biophysics
Biophysicist, historian of Soviet and Russian science, professor of the Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, MSU, former head. Doctor of Biological Sciences, author of over 200 scientific papers and several books on the history of science, was a laboratory of physical biochemistry of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
He tells about biological systems, the theory of evolution, cosmophysical correlations of biological and physicochemical processes, the history of science. Honored Soros Professor. Member of the editorial board of the journal "Nature".
There are several lecture playlists - for example, see also this one . Unfortunately, the new video has not been laid out for a long time, but this is the only example in this collection.
Chemistry
Artem Organov is a chemist, physicist, theorist-crystallographer, mineralologist, materials scientist, creator of computer-aided design techniques for new materials and prediction of crystal structures. With such a baggage of knowledge, lectures could touch any topic, but the most interesting thing happens when Organs talks about chemistry.
Modern chemistry is inseparably connected with the creation of new materials - and in this topic Oganov is able to literally “ignite” the listener, talking about the revolution in materials science, the design of new materials and chemical phenomena that go beyond the usual university courses.
Far from all popularizing scientists got into the review. Not everyone has their own channel with the lectures posted and not everyone, unfortunately, the listeners made their own channel on their own. Someone posted a lot of video excerpts, but in fragmented form, but somewhere just the author is more represented in articles than in the video. The review did not include popular channels that popularize science, as well as scientific journalists - all of them are already well known and have been mentioned more than once in various selections. If, in your opinion, a scientist is suitable for the selection criteria, but was not mentioned - write about him in the comments.
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