In February and Match three very important conference to the econophysicists were held: "Unsolved Problems on Noise", "Verhandlungen DPG" and "Open Readings" (lt. "Laisvieji skaitymai"). Our B. Kaulakys, V. Gontis, A. Kononovicius, P. Purlys and R. Kazakevičius have given oral and poster presentations at these conference. Presentations were mostly concerned with our newest achievements in the applications of Kirman model and burst statistics.

Recently in Lithuanian and world's different or global social spaces there was a lot of disccusion on anti-piracy and the proportionality of so-called "protection" of intelectual properties. The US politicians consider SOPA and PIPA, while EU countries one after another expressed will to join ACTA. In Lithuanian media and blogosphere, as most probably in the rest of the world, has split into the ACTA supporter and opposition camps.

We tackle many different problems here on Physics of Risk. Thus we can offer few different topics for students looking for supervisors and interesting topics for their term papers.

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In the last year we have already written that work in the context of Physics of Risk provides varying insights into very different complex systems. The previous article [1] contained brief review of Physics of Risk platform and discussions on some of the models published using it. This article received great response and was even awarded the Best Paper Award by the publisher IARIA.

"What's inside my head?" asks internet meme on the https://memebase.cheezburger.com/. Answer appears to rather simple and complex at the same time - nature is a fractal! By the way did you know that surface of the human brain has a fractal, Hausdorff, dimension of 2.79? This actually means that human brain is neither 3D, nor 2D object.