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Matrix Mama
Burn, Baby, Burn
'Botanicula’ and Sequels
Viral Killing Fields
Recently, the Ebola virus struck again in Uganda - and people everywhere have panicked, predictably.
Kuskovo’s Duck Tragedy
On the Aurora Massacre
Stalin’s own Triffid
The God Particle cometh
The biggest news in the science community is still the Higgs boson breakthrough - why, it even has its own song!1Of Computers & Shamanism
Last week, I prom- ised to explain the strange phenomenon of the Russian IT sector and tambourines.1The wacky world of Russian IT jokes
It’s been another intense week in Russia and the world in general, and because we all deserve some downtime, I’m going to go ahead and regale the readers of this blog with Russian IT jokes.1Goal-Line Tech & Ukraine
Megafon Does Me Proud
One of the best things about living in Russia are the commercials. No, really.Interneshka and Kids Online
Meet Inter-neshka! This geeky-looking fella is there to teach your kids about online safety!Pavel Durov’s little stunt
Skvortsova and Russia's Stroke Victims
Twitter Goes to Court
Twitter is too easy to make fun of. It’s full of spam, memes that get old in roughly half an hour, and celebrities having spectacular meltdowns.1The Science (and Horror) of Green Clouds
Last week, Muscovites got treated to a peculiar sight: a huge green cloud over the city. Because I grew up in North Carolina, my immediate thought upon seeing it (I was jogging to the House of Journalists at the time, running late for a film screening) was “tornado.”1“Who’s paying you?” Russia’s version of Godwin’s Law
Chewbacca vs. Russian e-government
The Sad truth Behind YouTube’s “Crazy Babka” Phenomenon
Instagram comes to Android - and my head explodes
Late in the evening, as I was busy trying to keep a cranky baby happy while simultaneously catching up on the last season of “The Walking Dead” (what do babies have to do with zombies? Well, both are relentless, for a start), the long-awaited e-mail announcement from Instagram arrived.1
Matrix Mama
Girls, the stereotype decrees, are allergic to science and technology. But as a card-carrying member of the smarter sex who wears the scars from school playground "anti-nerd" bullies like a badge of honor, I'm here to tell you that myths like that are being consigned to the "delete" file of history faster than you can say... neutrinos. In this space you'll hear from me about discoveries and gadgets, breakthroughs in theory and applications in practice, about The World of The Geek in Russia and Beyond as she, and he, steadily inherit the earth.
Natalia Antonova is the deputy editor of The Moscow News.
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