Surprisingly, there are 14 years between these books. That's exactly how long Leo Tolstoy felt one cycle of human maturation constitutes. He had an almost intimate idea of dividing life into periods—conditional periods in which, every fourteen years, a person reaches a new level of understanding.
If, putting aside excessive modesty (briefly and strictly for scientific purposes), we apply this logic to ourselves, a curious picture emerges.
On January 4, 2026, it will be exactly three years since I returned to the pool after a thirty-year hiatus...
The assessment of the safety of products supplied to the market, without which the sale is impossible and illegal, protecting the consumer's health, does not guarantee him the effectiveness declared by the manufacturer. Meanwhile, there has long been equipment for assessing skin parameters, which in the hands of specialists can be used to objectively assess the effectiveness of cosmetic products and hardware methods.
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The creation of fertile innovative ecological environment in the country is constrained by barriers of a conceptual nature. The article identifies four groups of such barriers. The authors propose a strategy for overcoming them based on a comparison of functions necessary for the innovative development of social practices and the natural mechanisms of a new life birth. This allows us to formulate a number of pragmatic recommendations for creating an innovative eco-environment for a wide range of industries. By analogy with natural dynamics of obstetrics, the approach is called placental
Keywords: Innovation, innovation infrastructure, acceleration, eco-environment, placenta, development.
