Grigory Ryzhakov

Film of the Week: The Place Beyond The Pines

Grigory Ryzhakov — Sat, 04 May 2013 12:11:57 +0000

Luke is a motorcycle stunt rider who tries to be a good father. But with no jobs on the horizon, he decides to rob banks in order to get some money to support his son. It’s a desperate measure, which results in a tragedy.… Read the rest

Read Russia: Russian Literature in the Spotlight

Grigory Ryzhakov — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:20:27 +0000

While the London Book Fair 2013 is still fresh in my memory, I’ll talk about the Read Russia Showcase, which I attended at the LBF. Read Russia is an initiative aiming to raise awareness about Russian literature outside Russia and connect fans of Russian books to modern Russian authors.… Read the rest

Film of the Week: Oblivion – Figure Out Who You Are.

Grigory Ryzhakov — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:02:55 +0000

New York, the buzzing merry crowd and … her.

Should there be any recollections of them left at all after his memory has been erased?

Jack Harper is tortured by flashbacks of his past life. The Earth was attacked by aliens and humans escaped to Titan where they’ve established a new civilization.… Read the rest

London Book Fair 2013: Empowered Authors and Digital Revolution

Grigory Ryzhakov — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:29:00 +0000

London. Book. Fair. These three words I’ve been uttering non-stop for the past three weeks. When I arrived at Earls Court on Monday, 15 Apr 2013, I was thrilled with the variety: hundreds of pavilions and stands, thousands of shelves filled with books.… Read the rest

Music. Video. Drama

Grigory Ryzhakov — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:45:31 +0000

I’m not dead. Yet. Though I’ve been subjected to some degree of peril lately. I haven’t posted for a while, but it doesn’t mean I’ve been slacking. This month I’m attending two scientific conferences, also London Book Fair and I have deadlines to submit a couple of scientific grant proposals.… Read the rest

My Undercover Soundtrack

Grigory Ryzhakov — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:44:11 +0000

This week Roz Morris is hosting me at her The Undercover Soundtrack blog: I’m talking about how music influence my writing.

Roz is a long-time professional writer, editor, online persona, who have ghost-written several bestseller novels as well as written books under her own name.… Read the rest

Evolutionary Biology and Why It Is Still Needed Now. My NF-kappaB story

Grigory Ryzhakov — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:11:10 +0000

Someone who hopelessly banged his head against doors of funding agencies for several years, I can definitely say that evolutionary biology is not the most appealing scientific area to be in at the moment. You want to be in the biomedical research, doing things related to clinical work or design new pharmaceuticals.… Read the rest

Ancient Myths and How They Influenced Science

Grigory Ryzhakov — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:06:34 +0000

Science explores things around and inside us and often it needs an inspiration to recognize and classify the profound splendor of our Universe. Ancient myths are not just a vast source of thought-provoking stories but they also provide names for molecules, cells, phenomena and many other subjects/objects of the scientific investigation.… Read the rest