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• Not a New Format, but a New Form of Communication: ITMO Teaching Staff on Distance Learning

  …o she was able to stay here and deliver the course Quantitative and Qualitative Methods on her own,” says Antonina Puchkovskaia. “Overall, organizational issues were the most discouraging trend of the year. Most ITMO students weren’t able to attend conferences or do internships abroad or go on academic exchange. Some events were postponed till next year, and some hel…

  29.07.2020

• ITMO Graduate Nikita Teplyakov on Working in Switzerland, Studying in the UK, and Breaking Stereotypes

  …tial scholarship. Recently, he was accepted into a PhD program at Imperial College London (rated 8th by QS). Nikita Teplyakov spoke to ITMO.NEWS about his experiences, how he discovered science, and why stereotypes about scientists aren’t always right. How did you come to choose photonics as your field of study? When I was making that choice, I was interest…

  28.07.2020

• St. Petersburg's Nobel Prize Legacy

  …us proving the power of conditioning. Even though Pavlov was a physiologist, he was named the 21st most cited psychologist of the 20th century because of the contribution his discovery made to the understanding of human and animal behavior as well as neurological sciences. And yes, behaviorism as a theory is quite debatable but we can’t deny that this approach is at …

  27.07.2020

• Path to Immortality: Old and New Ways to Fight Aging

  … In the 19th century, rumors had it that extracts of animal testicles would be the answer to aging. The most radical and dangerous method was devised in the 20th century. The discovery of radiation seemed to hold the promise that this unrestrained energy would replenish the human body’s resources and rejuvenate it. Companies would sell radium-infused creams and water…

  27.07.2020

• Scientists Optimize Growing Neurons from Stem Cells Using Machine Learning and Robots

• ‘Free From Sulfates, Phosphates, and Parabens’: What Is Chemophobia and How Is It Tackled at ITMO

  …espondents indicated that they fear chemical substances, while 40% said that they want to live in a world where chemicals don’t exist at all. The authors of the research also discovered that most people’s knowledge of the natural world is extremely low: 82% of respondents didn’t know that the salt that is extracted from the sea and the salt that is synthesized artifi…

  24.07.2020

• Campbell’s Law: Why Smart Technologies Don’t Always Make Life Better

  …eir services. The solution only created new problems. Why Campbell’s law is so hard to overcome Donald Campbell suggested several strategies to deal with the law he discovered, but most of them are hard to follow. One of his suggestions was to not directly link the numbers and the rewards. However, in this case people mostly lose motivation to improve their…

  23.07.2020

• Serhan Agrali: Visiting Silicon Valley Inspired My Major

  …r a two-week vacation. We spent it traveling around the country without a specific plan. We just drove where we thought was interesting. My mom and I decided to go to San Francisco for a couple of days. When we arrived, I remembered about the place called Silicon Valley, home to many of the world's largest high tech corporations, including Apple and Google. I heard m…

  23.07.2020

• This Mostly Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Mental Health

  …s, you will engage in a series of challenges designed to increase your happiness and build more productive habits. As preparation for these tasks, Prof. Laurie Santos reveals misconceptions about happiness, annoying features of the mind that lead us to think the way we do, and the research that can help us change. You will ultimately be prepared to successfully incor…

  22.07.2020

• At-Home Lab Experiments: A Look at the Summer SCAMT Workshop Week 2020

  …t. We worked in a team that consisted of five members and two coordinators. I was the “youngest” one – the majority were senior-year students or graduates. It was funny to discover that while there was a distance of several thousand kilometers between some of us, two of the girls and I were practically living in the same district. And we all met here on this proje…

  22.07.2020