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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 | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites

1 Contents
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites
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2 Editorial
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3 Genius and Lunacy
Janusz Rybakowski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 4-7
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Mood disorders, psychotic symptoms, suicidal behavior, and tendencies to abuse alcohol and other psychoactive substances all occur particularly frequently among artists. History's greatest geniuses have shown predispositions for schizophrenia. Is there a link between creative activity and psychopathology?
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Janusz Rybakowski
4 Toxic Fats
Agnieszka Dobrzyń
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 8-11
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The metabolic diseases that pose a major problem for obese individuals are actually not caused by overdeveloped fat tissue. In fact, the culprits turn out to be lipids stored in other tissues, ill adapted to accumulating fat.
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Agnieszka Dobrzyń
5 Dying Languages
Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska , Jadwiga Zieniuk
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 12-15
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Despite active policies to protect minority languages and a resurgence of interest in them in many countries of Europe, the generation that spoke them as their mother tongue is now passing away - taking with them the tradition of their use in everyday life.
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Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska
Jadwiga Zieniuk
6 Coal Has a Future
Lidia Gawlik , Zbigniew Grudziński
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 16-19
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As one Polish saying goes, "coal keeps Poland on its feet:' The country is indeed particularly rich in lignite deposits - a domestic fuel of relatively low production cost, ensuring relatively inexpensive power production. Should such an energy source be abandoned?
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Lidia Gawlik
ORCID: ORCID
Zbigniew Grudziński
ORCID: ORCID
7 The World in Equations
Ryszard Rudnicki , Radosław Wieczorek
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 20-23
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Observing nature since time immemorial, mankind has always noticed the surprising regularities evidenced by many biological phenomena. Mathematical modeling is now helping explain them.
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Ryszard Rudnicki
Radosław Wieczorek
8 Two in One
Anita Kaliszewicz
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 24-27
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Why is the sexual mode of reproduction so common in nature? What are the advantages of hermaphroditism? Studying water hydra, capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction, may help us better understand the evolution of different reproductive strategies.
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Anita Kaliszewicz
ORCID: ORCID
9 A Vanishing Class
Maria Halamska
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 28-30
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The economic transformation in Poland has led to the emergence of two extremely different types of farms: strong, entrepreneurial farms yielding 80% of all agricultural output in terms of value, and small farms supplying the just farmers' own needs, very numerous yet insignificant from the standpoint of the market economy.
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Maria Halamska
10 Polymers for Sustainability
Stanisław Słomkowski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 31-33
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Mankind must begin making efforts to curb the pace of coal and petroleum consumption, while at the same time accelerating processes that bring the circulation of carbon compounds "full circle".
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Stanisław Słomkowski
11 Pottery from Aegina
Bartłomiej Lis
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 34-35
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Five years of excavation at Mitrou in central Greece have toppled the existing view that only luxury pottery was traded in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that much "ordinary" or everyday-use pottery moved from place to place as well.
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Bartłomiej Lis
12 Good Ozone, Bad Ozone
Janusz Jarosławski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 36-37
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The trouble with ozone is that there is too little of it where it should be, yet too much where we do not want it.
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Janusz Jarosławski
13 Epsilon vs. Zeta
Urszula Zielenkiewicz , Michał Dmowski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 38-39
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Some plasmids present inside bacteria cells encode toxic proteins designed to kill off their host cells. Paradoxically, through a delicate toxin/ antitoxin balance, such mechanisms actually help plasmids to survive within bacteria populations.
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Urszula Zielenkiewicz
Michał Dmowski
14 The Myth of Ethnology
Tomasz Szerszeń
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 40-41
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The fields of scientific research and art became particularly intertwined in the 1930s, when ethnologists and artists jointly succumbed to a fascination with the culture of Africa.
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Tomasz Szerszeń
15 Climate Facts and Possibilities
Zbigniew Kundzewicz , Eugeniusz Mokrzycki
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 42-45
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Zbigniew Kundzewicz
Eugeniusz Mokrzycki
ORCID: ORCID
16 Polish-German History
Rafał Żytyniec
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 48-49
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Rafał Żytyniec
17 GMO Facts and Myths
Tomasz Twardowski
ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2009 | Nr 1 (21) 2009 Opposites | 50
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Tomasz Twardowski

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