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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

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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles

1 Contents
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles
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2 Editorial
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3 Harnessing Our Trash
Czesława Rosik-Dulewska
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 4-7
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Organic waste accounts for a significant percentage of what gets dumped into landfills, but that should not be the case. Like plastics or metals, biowaste represents a valuable secondary raw material.
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Czesława Rosik-Dulewska
ORCID: ORCID
4 Exploring the Labyrinth
Maciej Pokora
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 8-11
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We still know very little about a sense whose function we hardly ever notice, but whose dysfunction is immediately problematic.
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Maciej Pokora
5 Cycles of Life and Death
Grzegorz Bartosz
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 12-15
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Identifying the genes governing longevity in yeast could lay the groundwork for studying analogous genes in humans. Will yeast prove to be an excellent model organism for gerontology research?
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Grzegorz Bartosz
6 Heat from the Sun
Włodzimierz Smolec
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 16-19
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Rising global temperatures, mounting energy prices, increasing atmospheric pollution ... all these problems might be alleviated by better harnessing the energy from the Sun.
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Włodzimierz Smolec
7 Clever Coding
Adrianna Łoniewska-Lwowska
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 20-23
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Although viral genomes are very small, ingenious mechanisms now being discovered enable them to encode a sufficient number of proteins.
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Adrianna Łoniewska-Lwowska
8 Round and Round
Lech Wojciech Szajdak
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 24-27
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Our understanding of the complex processes and mechanisms which occur in various ecosystems is being expanded by a new field of science: biogeochemistry.
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Lech Wojciech Szajdak
9 When Continents Collide
Robert Anczkiewicz
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 28-31
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Colliding continents have created the highest mountain ranges on our planet. Mountains like the Himalayas give us a unique opportunity to study the past and present of this ongoing process recorded in once deeply hidden rocks.
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Robert Anczkiewicz
10 Goya's Cycles
Irena Kossowska
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 32-33
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Sequences of images, like Goya's Los Caprichos, offer broader possibilities of expressing ideas and emotions than a singular composition.
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Irena Kossowska
11 Regulated Resistance
Anna Chełmońska-Soyota , Tomasz Maj
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 34-35
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How can a properly functioning female immune system be reconciled with the events of fertilization and reproduction? Male sperm is foreign, after all, and should be destroyed by the female body. Female mammals cope with this dilemma through the cyclical influence of sex hormones on their immunity.
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Anna Chełmońska-Soyota
Tomasz Maj
12 Murky Waters
Wojciech Dzwolak
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 36-37
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The author Michel Schiff is quoted to have said that the "Memory of Water" and "Homeopathic Dilutions" are the two terms most capable of turning a sound person into a madman.
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Wojciech Dzwolak
13 River History
Tomasz Kalicki
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 38-39
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You can't step into the same river twice, as they say. But it's also not easy to stand on the same riverbank twice, as rivers are constantly altering their own beds. Which, in the long run, has had a greater impact: nature or mankind?
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Tomasz Kalicki
14 One Must Try to Understand
Barbara Skarga
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 40-43
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Barbara Skarga
15 Letters of the Law
Władysław Czapliński , Irena Rzeplińska
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 46-47
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Władysław Czapliński
ORCID: ORCID
Irena Rzeplińska
16 An Advancer of Science
Paweł Grieb
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 48-49
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One could tell anecdotes about Prof. Witold Andrzej Karczewski for hours on end. As an excellent researcher, a strict boss, and an erudite humanist, he worked to promote science awareness and was devoted to public service.
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Paweł Grieb
17 Conservation Pays
Jakub Urbański
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2008 | Nr 4 (20) 2008 Cycles | 50
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Jakub Urbański

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