Popular sciences

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

Volumes

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Content

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor

1 Contents

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor

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2 Editorial

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 3

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3 New Family Order

Irena E. Kotowska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 4-7

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Abstract

Over the past 15 years Poland has seen changes in how people form and raise a family, meaning the process of marriage and procreation. Increasingly fewer children are being born, and women are deciding to marry and to have their first child at an increasingly later age.

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Irena E. Kotowska

4 How to Impress Females?

Piotr Matyjasiak , Piotr G. Jabłoński

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 8-11

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Abstract

Female animals make the world more beautiful, and... more deceitful. Their selectivity forces males to become more conspicuous, or occasionally more cunning, in their attempts to stoke the passions of their potential mates.

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Piotr Matyjasiak

Piotr G. Jabłoński

5 Not Quite Equal Upstairs?

Anna Grabowska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 12-15

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Why are the minds of women and men so engrossed in different issues, and why do we perceive reality in such differing ways?

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Anna Grabowska

6 Galileo in Poland

Janusz B. Zieliński

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 16-19

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The American GPS system has now become a popular utility, used in many domains of everyday life. However, new technology triggers new applications, and new applications require improved tools. It is now clear that GPS alone will not be able to satisfy all needs.

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Janusz B. Zieliński

7 Women in Black

Stanisław Pużyński

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 20-22

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Why do women suffer from psychiatric disturbances, especially mood disorders, more frequently than men do? The answer seems to require a combination of biology, psychology, and sociology.

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Stanisław Pużyński

8 Towards Molecular Machines

Bohdan Korybut-Daszkiewicz , Renata Bilewicz , Krzysztof Woźniak

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 23-25

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Nano-scale devices based on molecular machines could play a major role in the future of electronics, medicine and communications. Generating molecules with parts that can move like tiny "switches" is a step in the right direction.

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Bohdan Korybut-Daszkiewicz

Renata Bilewicz

Krzysztof Woźniak

9 The Art of Women

Joanna Sosnowska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 26-27

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In the 1920s Polish female painters and sculptors made their mark on the artistic scene in Poland and in Europe. Now their accomplishments are being rediscovered.

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Joanna Sosnowska

10 Eyes on All Sides

Barbara Siemiątkowska , Adam Chojecki , Piotr Marcinkiewicz

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 28-29

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Recent years have brought increasing commercial interest in new robot applications, giving rise to greater demand for new robot navigation technologies.

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Barbara Siemiątkowska

Adam Chojecki

Piotr Marcinkiewicz

11 Bringing Back the Past

Marek W. Lorenc

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 30-31

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Neither beautiful Italian marbles nor colorful Polish sandstones, not even hard Scandinavian granites are impervious to the "tooth of time." No matter kind of stone we carve statues of our beloved poets and leaders from, they can all expect to meet the same depressing end - unless we get to know the culprits and learn to put up a fight.

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Marek W. Lorenc

12 Through the Glass Ceiling

Anna Titkow

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 32-33

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Rising public acceptance in Poland for women combining family and professional roles is not going hand-in-hand with a more widespread sharing of family duties at home- especially in childcare, a factor of key significance for the careers of women.

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Anna Titkow

13 Educated Wife

Joanna Partyka

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 34-35

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Circumstances conducive to the emergence of a literary culture that allowed women to participate arose in Poland only as late as in the 1650s, following the appearance of two Frenchwomen on the Polish throne, namely Marie-Louise Gonzaga and Marie-Casimire.

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Joanna Partyka

14 Hidden Treasures

Teresa Madeyska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 2 (6) 2005 The Famale Factor | 36-38

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When we visit caves and admire their dripstone formations, most of us do not realize how many traces of the distant past might be found in the stalagmites and stalactites, as well as in the very sediments we are walking over.

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