Below is the list of my most interesting entries. You can call it a table of contents. Is it your first time here? Are you looking for something specific? Start here. BTW, my most favorite stuff is highlighted with red. Ниже список наиболее интересных записей в этом журнале. В некотором смысле, оглавление. Вы здесь впервые? Вы ищете какой-то ( Read more... )

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By some reasons everyone congratulate each other with the New Year the night before. That's unfair, since at that time it hasn't started yet. But it has now! :) Happy New Year! Почему-то все поздравляют друг друга в ночь перед новым годом. Но так нечестно, ведь он ещё не начался. А вот теперь — начался! :) С новым годом!


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Subtitles made by CrimeanElf and Val Schuman. Субтитры сделаны мной, crimeanelf, и Валерием Шуманом.

(The name of the song is after a famous Russian tongue twister: "Shla Sasha po chaucce i sosala suchku", which means "A girl called Sasha walked down the road sucking sushka", and sushka is a bagel-like pastry which might be as dry as pretzel ( Read more... )

When I was five or so, the night before my birthday I cried and did not want to go to sleep. Because the birthday was tomorrow and there was neither snow, nor even signs of snow anytime in the close future. How can my birthday be without snow? Don't know how, but parents managed to calm me down. Next day when I woke up, it was snowing. I went out ( Read more... )

Many Russians think that Americans are rich people. Многие русские думают, что американцы богатый народ.

This is in general true. Salaries are higher, more stuff could be bought with them, life quality is better. This is one of the reasons why many Russians immigrated to USA. Это, в общем, правда. Доходы выше, купить можно больше, уровень ( Read more... )

I found and translated an interesting article. I did not know that. Did you? Нашла и перевела интересную статью. Я этого не знала. А вы?
Below is the original article in English, written by Mario Vittone (http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/drowning/?10981) and my translation to Russian. Источник: http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/drowning/? ( Read more... )

Yesterday we had an enormous hail. These are several stones in my hands, and they are already melting. У нас вчера был офигенный град. Вот несколько градин в моих руках. И это они уже начали таять, а когда падали, были больше.

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How many friends do you have in Facebook? And why this many? ;) Сколько друзей у вас в Фэйсбуке или во вКонтакте? А почему именно столько? ;)
I'll begin from far away. In 1992 Robin Dunbar studied different species of monkeys and found a dependence between relative neocortex size and amount of monkeys in a troup (link to the article). The ( Read more... )

I have visited Petersburg... Я побывала в Петербурге...

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