Sparkling lights

We all come from childhood and remember what a miracle it seemed spillage sparks of magic wands - Bengal lights on birthday or New Year. Years go by, and with the same enchanted eyes our children and grandchildren are watching the mini-fireworks..

Patent trolls - who are they?

It is well known that the performance of the research, development, design and technology, dissertation, search operations are often accompanied by the development of new designs, technologies, recipes, new ideas, and that in the future may be implemented (commercialized) in certain products or s

A Sunshining Bush

The landscape of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute becomes more beautiful and attractive: new elements, plantations and compositions appear. A spring blossom palette gladdens.  It would seem that all good corners were visited, explored and photographed. But it is not.

Drawing board, Whatman, Silhouette, etc. have become everyday words

Not everyone thinks about the origin of some words that many of us recite, see or hear almost every day. But many words have an unusual story. And especially interesting are words that come from the names of  real people whose actions or inventions so impressed others that they became associated with each of  person and they are firmly fixed in the human vocabulary.

Do You Believe in Santa Claus?

"Do you believe in Santa Claus? " - I asked the nice girl standing nearby in a queue in office of Nova poshta. It held a pretty color bag, on a place of the return address was written "From Santa Claus". "It is worse, - she smiled. - I play it".

Waiting for Holiday: Advent-Calendar

It’s a snowy fairytale outside, the tear-off calendar is completely empty, we live full of New Year's worries and preparing gifts for "under the tree". This year, children presented the Advent calendar.

Where is the blue horse racing from?

Of course, the main concerns of housewives are fussy New Year days - it means better to lay the table, what to present to family, how to meet the guests, or what to visit friends with. Yet, this is not the only concerns. The main question is what to wear on New Year's Eve ...

Larix. Tree that deserves respect

It is called exotic plant among conifers. With all the features of the needle, the tree overthrows needles in the winter and in spring it is covered with young greens. Its Russian name originates from this - "lystvennytsa" and Ukrainian one - modryna. Botanists call it Larix.

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