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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Opis

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
Wydawcy
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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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion

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3 Aggresion: Hot and Cold
Jerzy Vetulani
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 4-7
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The Ancient Greeks described many different impulsive behaviors, including mania - a religious frenzy - and /yssa - the mad fury of war. The division is analogous to that made by contemporary neurobiology, which classifies aggressive actions as cool or emotional, each driven by distinct, mutually exclusive neurological mechanisms.
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Jerzy Vetulani
4 Storks, Locustus, and Nero's Spies
Bogdan Żurawski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 8-11
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The Ancient Greeks described many different impulsive behaviors, including mania - a religious frenzy - and /yssa - the mad fury of war. The division is analogous to that made by contemporary neurobiology, which classifies aggressive actions as cool or emotional, each driven by distinct, mutually exclusive neurological mechanisms.
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Bogdan Żurawski
5 Quasars and Dark Energy
Magdalena Krupa , Agnieszka Świętoń , Bożena Czerny , Agnieszka Pollo
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 12-15
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The discovery that the Universe is expanding faster than we previously thought is one of the most fundamental findings in cosmology of recent years, but we are still some way from understanding precisely how this expansion occurs. Our team from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre and the Jagiellonian University is using quasars to try to unravel the mystery.
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Magdalena Krupa
Agnieszka Świętoń
Bożena Czerny
Agnieszka Pollo
6 The Sullen Humorist
Jerzy Jarzębski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 16-19
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I can't remember when I first started reading Mrożek, but he was undoubtedly the writer of my generation - people born in the late 1940s and studying during the 1960s. He was our model ofliterature and humor - absurd humor, at that I remember a time when Czesław Miłosz wrote in an article reviewing my book about Gombrowicz ["Gra w Gombrowicza, 1982 - ed.} that while he couldn't deny my erudition, he was shocked that my views were so unbecoming of a Pole. He meant that he expected me to fall to my knees before Gombrowicz and confess my sins, or perhaps attack him - after all, what he wrote was harshly critical of Poland, our traditions and ethos. Meanwhile, we had just finished reading Mrożek, and were fully on his (and Gombrowicz's) side.
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Jerzy Jarzębski
7 With the Fury of a Shoemaker?
Janusz Tazbir
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 20-23
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Devotees of every craft have their own particular type of passion. Ardent scholars of history and literature share a deep-burning desire to uncover the true meaning of various phenomena and concepts.
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Janusz Tazbir
8 Flowers of Beauty and Passion
Katarzyna Goller
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 24-26
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Species belonging to the genus Passiflora have beautiful exotic flowers and edible fruit, appreciated for their intriguing taste. Although they grow and bloom best in tropical climates, they can also adapt to Polish weather conditions. Steeped in symbolism, the flowers' name evokes a certain sadness but their beauty is a true feast for the eyes.
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Katarzyna Goller
9 When the Whole Earth Mourns
Jacek Jackowski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 27-29
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Jacek Jackowski
10 Help for Forty Million
Joanna Romanowska
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 30-31
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Contemporary medicine is able to keep HIV in check: patients taking a carefully selected combination of drugs are prevented from developing AIDS. And yet the number of new infections continues to grow, with up to 40 million people living with HIV around the world. New research into pronucleotides, conducted at the PAS Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, offers hope of potential new treatments.
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Joanna Romanowska
11 The Sixth Continent
Stanisław Rakusa-Suszczewski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 32-34
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Antarctica's "oases" differ from the continent's ice-covered desert in terms of their climate, rocky landscape, and the presence of numerous lakes, shallow reservoirs, and streams that appear briefly in the summer. These oases vary in age from around 5,000 to around 15,000 years old and their development is linked to the glacial retreat.
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Stanisław Rakusa-Suszczewski
12 Intuition, Simplicity, Elegance
Marek Abramowicz
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 35
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The Polish Astronomical Society first awarded the Bohdan Paczyński Medal during its 36th convention in Warsaw on 14 September 2013. The award was presented to Prof. Martin Rees from the University of Cambridge.
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Marek Abramowicz
13 I've Been Lucky With People
Adam Bielański
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 36-40
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Adam Bielański
14 60 Years of World-Class Physics
Leszek Sirko
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 42-43
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This year's 60th anniversary of the PAS Institute of Physics offers an excellent opportunity to reflect on its accomplishments and attempt to define its role in the future.
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Leszek Sirko
15 As Delicate as a Satellite
Marcin Stolarski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 44-45
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Dr. Marcin Stolarski is radio communication manager in the team responsible for Poland's first scientific satellites BRITE-PL. He is also involved in other projects, such as the Solar Orbiter satellite and the development of new radio systems based on software defined radio (SDR) technologies. He won the national Famelab competition and made it into the international final. He is currently at the University of California, attending a two-month training course for "Top 500 Innovators" organized by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
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Marcin Stolarski
16 In Memory of Adrian Kin
Błażej Błażejowski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 46-47
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Born on 12 February 1979, Dr. Adrian Kin, a highly gifted and versatile young geologist and paleobiologist, died exactly one year ago. Admittedly, writing in the past tense about someone who passed away so recently is never easy, especially when this concerns someone who was not only a fellow scientist but also a friend.
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Błażej Błażejowski
17 An Accidental Discoverer
Kazimierz Kochman
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2013 | Nr 3 (39) 2013 Passion | 48-49
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For must there not be some extraordinary circumstances to exalt the name of a professor from the history of Science to the general history of the human race? Honore de Balzac.
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Kazimierz Kochman

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