Many people have already noticed the appeal from Jimmy Wales — the founder of Wikipedia, beloved by us all. As we know, Wikipedia operates on voluntary donations, as well as the work of millions of volunteers around the world. Every year, closer to Christmas, Jimmy Wales calls on people to make …

On the first day of the last month of autumn, a terrible traffic accident occurred in Kharkiv.

A streetlight pole, traveling in the left lane in violation of the speed limit, decided to perform a maneuver prohibited on this section of the highway: overtaking a car. After crossing the double …

Recently I ran into a good acquaintance on public transit. He told me that five years of studying at our university seemed like not enough to him, and despite the exposé “Why Go to Graduate School?” by my friend Mikha, he decided anyway to enroll as a full-time postgraduate student …

There is good news and bad news.

The bad news is that the party committee of my department has decided that in the 2009/2010 academic year, third-year students will be left without a course on optimization. This is not because the course is difficult or useless to anyone. This …