Abstract: This article considers the so-called Fermi paradox, according to which we should have been, but never met another intelligent life. The essence of the answer lies in the fact that we could not and will not be able to establish a contact due to multiple reasons, particularly because there is not enough time due to the fact that any intelligent life in the end destroys either itself or its planet. Methodological apparatus includes the general philosophical and general scientific approaches, such as analysis, synthesis, comparative analysis, as well as the methods applied in biological sciences. The scientific novelty consists in suggestion of the biological perspective, rather than physicists’ approach that formulated the examined paradox. Based on such approach, a conclusion is made that any intelligent life, including human, with great probability ends its life on the same planet that it has originated.

Abstract: The object of the research is some rigidity of human thinking as a result of particular circumstances, cultural environment and epoch. Special attention is paid to the way we see this world, what we observe there and how we explain observed phenomena to ourselves and other people. The author of the article successively analyze all the factors that influence our world view and can't be ignored by anyone including a researcher. As the main research methods, the author apply medical principles of diagnostics of interrelated symtpoms and syndromic analysis. The main conclusion of the research is that there is a certain dependence between our way of thinking and particular circumstances we live in. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author has used the methods and techniques that are not typical for making such conclusions. The author also assumes that we tend to solve our tasks by using methods that are convenient yet nto always beneficial. 
 

Abstract: The subject of the present research is the human perception of the inequal distribution of incomes and assets in the modern world. The author of the article appeals to history in order to show that sources of experiencing today's injustice have roots in the past of humanity. Describing the origin of civilization which, according to the author, laid the foundation for the present posture of affairs, the author of the article demonstrates that creation and accumulation of health were a natural process and contracted neither to human nature nor to the logic of the system that we are witnessing today and could have witnessed in the past. The methods of the present research involve historical reenactment, comparative geographical analysis, comparison, general scientific methods of deduction, induction and synthesis. The main conclusions of the present research are the following. Firstly, inequal distribution of wealth is the norm but anomaly within the framework of the system that creates it. Secondly, it does not contracit to human nature but fully agrees thereto. Thirdly, creation of a civilization was an inavoidable process. The scientific novelty of the present research is caused by the fact that the author offers a new approach to studying injustice. The new approach implies viewing injustice as a subjective phenomenon caused by values but not objective reality. 

Abstract: This article views mind as a burden. It’s supposed that just like every other physiological process reasoning demands a huge quantity of energy which our organism tries to avoid. Due to the high level of predictability of the social environment and particular features thereof as well as the dramatic progress of humankind over the last few centuries, today an ordinary person doesn’t need to use his or her brain power at full capacity. In his research Borzykh has used general methods of scientific research including analysis and comparison. The researcher has also used recent findings in biology. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that Borzykh offers a new approah to studying human mind from the point of view of its cost for the organism rather than the benefit from possessing it. The main conclusion is that just like other animals people constitute a compromise and have the energy balance when these or those systems consume different quantity of available energy. The process of reasoning created as a result of human body functioning is a compromise, too, and it is rather a burden for human body from the point of view of survival especially within the scope of contemporary culture and high technologies. As a consequence, people try not to use their mind deliberately or undeliberately. 

Abstract: The present article is devoted to the problems of the modern mankind. The author of the article makes an assumption that today's people are the last representatives of the humankind we are used to knowing, in other words, they are the humans of the epoch of Apocalypse. Such a situation is caused by the rapidly growing population of the planet, urbanization, scientific discoveries and consumer ethics of modern people. The research methodology involves analysis, synthesis, comparison, historical perspective and analysis of case studies. The novelty of the article is caused by the fact that so far very few researchers have studied the modern world in terms of the end of the world. The author of the article makes a hypothesis that the world is not only coming to Apocalypse but is actually experiencing Apocalypse already. However, the author assumes that it is some kind of a transfer of the humanity to a new stage of their development. 

Abstract: The question how in the sekulyarny world religions are succeeded by the tourism on the one hand copying its main lines, with another - filling a place which it leaves is considered. Article considers a question of similarity of tourism and religion. Qualities and properties both that, and another are very similar today that does a metaphor of heading very actual. Article studies not only external similarity the practician and the maintenance of both kinds of activity, but also their internal contents. Besides, it is filled with metaphors and comparisons that pulls together both of these concepts even more. As methods of research the comparative analysis, a historical review, a metaphor and analogies, supervision, a reflection, a gipostazirovaniye and modeling, and also deduction and induction act Novelty of the offered work consists, first of all, in those style and a way of a statement by which it is written. Various metaphors and comparisons which confirm with the presence the main conclusions are offered. The last say that today tourism in the form in which it is familiar to most of people, most of all reminds religion, with all that it implies.