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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Description

The „Academia” magazine was founded on the initiative of Professor Andrzej B. Legocki, a President of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2003 – 2006. In the beginning it was published only in English as a reply to the growing demand for a current information on the Polish Academy of Sciences` activities, expressed by foreign scientists and Poles living abroad and interested in Polish science.

Since 2005 the magazine is published both in Polish and English.

The „Academia” is an exceptional - on the Polish market - scientific magazine for the general public, propagating achievements of Polish scientists here and abroad. Authors of articles in „Academia” explain their subject in a way that is accessible not only for all sorts of academics but also for students, pupils and all other readers interested in scientific topics for the general public.

ISSN

1731-7401

Publishers

Polish Academy of Sciences

Editorial Staff

Jolanta Iwańczuk (Editor-in-Chief, Earth Sciences)

Daniel Sax (Editor, English-Language Version)

Marcin Pietras (Biological & Agricultural Sciences)

Justyna Orłowska (Journalist)

Andrzej Figatowski (Graphic Designer)

Anna Bielec (Project Coordinator)

Scientific Council

Marek Konarzewski, President of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Chairman)

Dariusz Jemielniak (Deputy Chairman)

Andrzej Buko

Katarzyna Czarnecka

Patrycja Dołowy

Paweł Golik

Janusz Jurczak

Tomasz Kapitaniak

Marek Krawczyk

Krzysztof Nowak

Anna Zawadzka

Publisher:

Polish Academy of Sciences

Communication and Science Information Department

Defilad sq. 1,

00-901 Warsaw, Poland

e-mail: academia@pan.pl

The journal content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0)
ttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Content

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness

1 Contents

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness

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2 Editorial

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3 Angry, Young, and Apolitical

Mirosława Grabowska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 4-7

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Mirosława Grabowska

4 Far Behind the Magellanic Clouds

Szymon Kozłowski

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 8-11

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Szymon Kozłowski

5 Is There a Chasm Between Us?

Jerzy Zdanowski

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 12-15

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Jerzy Zdanowski

6 The Social Life of an Individual Ant

Paweł J. Mazurkiewicz

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 16-18

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Termites, wasps, bees, certain aphids, thrips, beetles ... and of course ants. Some species of the rich and diverse world of insects, rather than living alone, have instead developed communities of various kinds. But should a group of such eusocial insects, ranging in size from a few hundreds to many millions of individuals, still be considered a set of distinct individuals, or rather a kind of superorganism.

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Paweł J. Mazurkiewicz

7 Similarities in Differences

Włodzimierz Oniszczenko

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 19-21

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Individual differences among humans are a well-known and well-studied phenomenon. Do they also occur in animals?

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Włodzimierz Oniszczenko

8 The Devil's in the Definitions

Michał Kozakiewicz

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 22-25

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Every scientific field is centered around a few core concepts, serving as the foundation for the formulation of basic laws and scientific theories. In biology, these include such concepts as "individual" and "species" - which may seem simple, but only deceptively so.

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Michał Kozakiewicz

9 A Journey of 6 Million Years

Bogusław Pawłowski

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 26-29

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Sahelanthropus, Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus kaddaba, Australopithecus, Paranthropus and finally Homo. Humans have traveled quite a long evolutionary path. Only one of these many species has managed to survive to the present day: Homo sapiens.

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Bogusław Pawłowski

10 Interplanetary Travelers

Elżbieta Jackowicz

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 30-33

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Most of us have had the opportunity to observe the sky and see the fleeting luminous streaks known as meteors. Such spectacles are caused by fragments of celestial bodies (meteoroids) entering the atmosphere at high speed. Some of them manage to reach the surface. How can these alien objects be told apart from Earth rocks and anthropogenic materials?

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Elżbieta Jackowicz

11 Poland's Door Only Slightly Ajar

Kinga Wysieńska-Di Carlo

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 34-37

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Most Poles declare that we should take in labor immigrants, regardless of whether they are ethnically and culturally similar to us. But how do these declarations translate into practice?

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Kinga Wysieńska-Di Carlo

12 Cooperation Is Crucial

Ewelina Ciecierska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 38-39

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We talk to Dr. Ewelina Ciecierska, winner of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie award, about prize-winning nanofillers, the value of working in a group, and the presence of women in a traditionally male-dominated world

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Ewelina Ciecierska

13 More Excellence & Openness, Less Celebrity

Jerzy Duszyński

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 40-44

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Jerzy Duszyński

14 Permafrost in Poland?

Joanna Rychel , Marcin Honczaruk , Barbara Woronko

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 45-47

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The permafrost that was discovered beneath the northeastern Polish village of Udryń in 2010 is a relict of the climatic conditions that prevailed across a sizeable share of the northern hemisphere back in the Pleistocene. The permafrost was then probably quite thick, which is why we can now detect remnants of it deep within the Earth (357 meters below ground). But how has it managed to survive to this very day?

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Joanna Rychel

Marcin Honczaruk

Barbara Woronko

15 Choose Your Own Perspective

Marek Domański

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 2 (46) 2015 Distinctiveness | 48-49

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"Free-viewpoint video" technology, under development at the Poznań University of Technology, will enable viewers to watch video from varying points located on a virtual trajectory of their own selection.

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