Welcome to My Scientific Journal
Здравствуйте! Welcome to the personal blog of Dr. Anatoli Ivanovich Goverki.
Here I document my ongoing experiments, reminisce about decades of unconventional research, and occasionally review Soviet-era measurement equipment that refuses to die.
If you’re looking for peer-reviewed, mainstream science, you’ve come to the wrong place. If you’re curious about what happens when someone dedicates their career to measuring things that probably don’t need measuring, read on.
“Science is not about why – it’s about why not?” - Cave Johnson (not me, but I agree)
Posts
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First Contact: Two Obsessive Measurers Meet in a Café (A Field Report)
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An Unexpected Gift from Mrs. Kuznetsova (And Why I Measured the Panettone)
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On Password Complexity, Entropy, and the Tyranny of Special Characters (A Tuesday Observation)
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An Email About Atmospheric Pressure and Mail Delivery (7,842 Words)
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On Sundays in Almaty (And the Particular Silence of Former Soviet Scientists)
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An Unexpected Encounter at the Electronics Store (Or: Why I Should Not Explain My Hobbies to Strangers)
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The Frequency Counter Arrives (And Immediately Complicates Everything)
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The Truth Revealed (Or: Why I Should Always Suspect Fourteen-Year-Olds)
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The Investigation Continues (Or: How to Doubt Everything on a Wednesday)
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They Are Watching (Or: An Unexpected Email on a Tuesday Afternoon)