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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Description

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

Publishers

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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Content

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed

1 Contents

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed

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2 Weather in Space

Iwona Stanisławska

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 4-7

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Abstract

While the Sun energy is one of the main factors that supports terrestrial life, solar eruptions can sometimes wreak great havoc on Earth. One of the centers working to observe and forecast space weather is the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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Iwona Stanisławska

3 Energetic Giants

Karol Sabath

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 8-11

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The traditional view of dinosaurs as sluggish behemoths is now being increasingly supplanted by a picture of animals that were in fact vigorous and energetic. This revolution in our understanding is in part due to researchers scrutinizing the remains of these Mesozoic giants ... under the microscope.

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Karol Sabath

4 Upwards and Downwards

Henryk Domański

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 12-15

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Poland has been seeing a clear trend towards increased social mobility in the first decade of the 21st century, a result which would indicate that barriers based on family origins are exerting a waning impact upon the life-paths of indMduals.

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Henryk Domański

5 Harvest of Energy

Emil Nalborczyk

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 16-19

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Where should we look for renewable, environment-friendly sources of energy? The answer is simple: try to understand the term ,,green energy" literally.

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Emil Nalborczyk

6 Prehistoric Herdsmen

Michał Kobusiewicz , Romuald Schild

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 20-24

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The shepherds who settled the Eastern Sahara in the fourth millenium BC developed a culture whose archeological remains are of astounding richness.

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Michał Kobusiewicz

Romuald Schild

7 Maintaining the Balance

Krystyna Nazar , Andrzej W. Ziemba

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 25-27

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The correct functioning of our bodies hinges upon precise energy management: neither excessive energy expenditure nor inordinate conservation will keep us in good shape.

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Krystyna Nazar

Andrzej W. Ziemba

8 Spintronics

Tomasz Dietl

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 28-30

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Will it continue to be possible to achieve further progress simply by miniaturizing the transistors used in microprocessors and the memory cells in disk devices? Spintronics might hold the key to a new breakthrough in nanotechnology.

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Tomasz Dietl

9 Exergy Analysis

Jan Szargut

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 31-33

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According to popular impressions, all real processes involve energy losses. However, such an interpretation is not satisfactory from the logical point of view - since energy is bound by the law of conservation, it cannot be destroyed.

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Jan Szargut

10 New Liberty vs. Old Liberty?

Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 34-35

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For close to 200 years, a certain stereotype has lingered in Polish publicist commentary and frequently also in historiography - one contrasting the anarchical liberty of the Polish nobility to the modem, not to say .progresslve,' liberty of the enlightened. Yet the problem is not that simple.

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Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz

11 A Kiln Solution

Eugeniusz Mokrzycki , Alicja Uliasz-Bocheńczyk

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 36-38

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The progress of civilization is inevitably connected with the ever increasing production of waste. Waste has become humanity's global problem. All over the world, new_ technologies are being developed that strive to decrease the amount of waste and seek ways of utilizing waste in industry. One of the opportunities for this involves the use of the combustible fractions of waste as an energy source.

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Eugeniusz Mokrzycki

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12 Detecting Oncoming Disaster

Tomasz Ernst

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2005 | Nr 3 (7) 2005 Energy Unleashed | 39-41

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Earthquakes might appear sudden and unpredictable, but are actually not so. They are in fact preceded by numerous signals that are imperceptible to human beings, but can be picked up by sensitive devices and interpreted using complex mathematical methods.

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