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• Lead Analyst at Mail.ru Group Anatoly Karpov: Statistics are Available to Anyone

  …rse. When “super-experts” give a course, they often lose touch with reality, and I was only one step ahead of my students back then, it brings us closer. They can relate to my story and reasoning.  The course has stayed relevant and will be useful for a long time because it covers the fundamentals of statistics that had been developed in the middle of the 20th cen…

  07.05.2020

• ITMO University Graduate Dmitry Vavulin on His Love for Physics, Science, and Working at Yandex

  …riting research papers. When I was reading physics textbooks and seeing the names of great scientists, I was thinking about how wonderful it would be – to leave your mark in history,  and make the world a little bit better with your research. I wanted to do the same.  What memories do you have of your student years? The first year was just fantastic. I wasn’t o…

  06.05.2020

• U.S. Fulbright Scholar Victoria Alexander on St. Petersburg, Isolation and Nabokov’s Connection to Evolution

  …self, this is what got me interested in his work. However, later you moved into the fields of biology and the theory of evolution. How did it happen? Oh, it's a long story. I owe this to Nabokov, too. It’s well known that he wasn’t just a talented author with a good sense of humor. He was also a lepidopterist, interested in the theory of evolution, and in t…

  05.05.2020

• Love Shared Apartments Like a Russian

  …ommunalkas downtown St. Petersburg. Many got bought out and turned back into single-family apartments or became office space. But the ones that do remain are a unique mix of history and culturology.  Common space is shared and maintained to the best of the tenants’ commitment, or lack thereof. Cooking times are rotated to keep out of each other’s way. Each family …

  04.05.2020

• Five Nintendo Switch Games to Brighten Up Your Holidays at Home

  …ng it a try. It definitely didn’t break a record for the most digital copies sold in a month for nothing. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (2019) This is basically a classic story as described in J. Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces: you have a goal and you travel towards it, tricking monsters and solving puzzles along the way. However, you have to manage t…

  01.05.2020

• Herzen University and ITMO Specialists Develop a Bot that Helps Prepare for the Unified State Exam in Chemistry

  …cialists from ITMO University are helping me. They deal with the development of new tasks and uploading the questions into the database, which takes a lot of time,” shares her story Ekaterina Korsakova.  At first, the Chemistry Bot wasn’t meant to be a tool for studying for the USE, but over time its concept was changed in order to suit future school graduates’ …

  30.04.2020

• This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Activities and Courses

  …s an entire MOOC to initiate you into the art? On this course, offered by the University of Wollongong, you will explore exactly what a podcast is and why it’s so powerful for storytelling. You’ll develop your own plan for a podcast, produce a script, and investigate different platforms for publishing your brand-new creation for the world to enjoy. Learn a new lan…

  29.04.2020

• Don’t Leave the Room, Don’t Make a Mistake and Run: Poems Every Russian Knows

  …les like Requiem uncovering the darkness of the Stalinist terror. Courage, however, a gravely resolute piece, is what I’d like to quote here today: We know what is now on History’s scales, What is, in the world, going now. The hour of courage shew our clock’s hands. Our courage will not bend its brow. Her works have been extensively translated, but I b…

  28.04.2020

• “I Did It Because I Could”: ITMO Alumnus Donates 800 Respirators to St. Petersburg Hospital, Buys Laptops for School Students

  …new I could help, so I called the hotline to find out what to do. Then I ordered a shipment of computers to be delivered to the city’s Committee for Education. The hospital story is even simpler. A childhood friend of mine works there. Once I found out that his hospital is going into infection mode (a set of special anti-infection measures adopted by many of St. P…

  22.04.2020

• “Science and Technologies in Society” Master’s Program: Why and How Do Researchers Study Labs and Startups?

  …e book Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts with the British sociologist Steve Woolgar, in which they describe the writing processes of research papers, the history of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the thyrotropin-releasing hormone, the microprocesses of how data is interpreted by scientists, and much more. What happened next? Resear…

  21.04.2020