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• Microrevolution: On Home-Made Fermentation in the Modern World

  …e who are into it. It’s up to you whether to buy or to produce. When you start to surround yourself with cans of floating substances and build a mushroom farm using Ikea containers, your friends and family sort of see you as a weirdo. But as you get deeper into this field, you start to meet like-minded people and then form a community, to which more and more “weir…

  17.08.2021

• ITMO Associate Professor ‪Andrey Filchenkov on Why Robots Can’t Replace Doctors

  … practicing specialist, yet in a relatively narrow field. What does that mean for AI? There is an enormous body of knowledge that doesn’t interlink very well. Each field contains an abnormal number of specifics. Machines must master all of that in order to be good at medicine. Simply put, it would take a lot of effort to cover all the fields with algorithms.  …

  16.08.2021

• Five Must-Know Russian Paintings

  …scussion. This is his most conceptually prominent work, one of the most talked-about and most famous paintings in world art. First appearing as part of a design for a stage curtain, the Black Square has become a supremacist manifesto, marking the turning point for the Russian avant-garde. Together with the lesser-known Black Circle and Black Cross, this work compiles…

  16.08.2021

• How to Launch an IT Startup

  … says Alexey Solomatin, head of ITMO Accelerator. Internal structure Once the team is formed, it’s important to build relationships inside it and come up with a certain internal concept for the future company. This might help avoid many problems and misunderstandings in the future. Some people prefer to establish a strict hierarchy right from the start…

  13.08.2021

• Student Spotlight: Susan Dzhiakkhvo, Nepal

  … crop yield and several plant diseases. My dream is to implement genetic engineering and bioinformatics to find solutions to these problems. I also want to focus my work on sustainability as that is a major concern in today’s world. I want to conduct research on the production of biofuel from plants and microbes, harnessing the largely unexplored potential of biotech…

  12.08.2021

• Crash Course: Recycling in St. Petersburg

  …– they will not end up in the landfill, but keep serving people. Which also brings us to the third benefit: preserving resources and natural habitats, which ensures our own sustainable development and prosperity as a species. Your “little” choice of, say, a reusable water bottle instead of a plastic one will be a step towards a better, more conscious, and greener wor…

  10.08.2021

• Explore the Art of Russia’s Indigenous Peoples

  …dern art projects inspired by traditional motifs. For example, see this print created by Yana Kuznetsova – it’s inspired by ancient artefacts of the Pazyryk culture (Altay Mountains):  As another way of bringing traditional art into the modern world, Ornamika also has a lab that is engaged in making graphic prints out of historical patterns from all over the w…

  09.08.2021

• Immunologist Marina Dukhinova on Herd Immunity and COVID-19

  …is a defense mechanism that responds to any change occurring in the body. It’s mainly triggered by various pathological processes. Basically, the immune system's job is to maintain homeostasis in the body.  There are two types of immune responses: cellular and non-cellular (humoral). Humoral immunity is based on the key cells of innate and adaptive immune systems,…

  09.08.2021

• Start Development and Bank Saint Petersburg to Build First Houses Near ITMO Highpark by 2024

  …ter ITMO Highpark, future home to ITMO’s second campus, a business park, and a Techno-Valley. The construction will be carried out by Start Development. The company plans to obtain a construction permit by the end of 2022 and finish the first stage in 2024. “It’s a known fact that cities that have universities develop more rapidly, have higher demand on the esta…

  07.08.2021

• ITMO Summer Courses: Teachers Share Their Experiences Part 2

  … – the faculty’s Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students.  During the course, students learned how to design better presentations, use specialized programs, as well as obtain and process results at labs. After the completion of their projects, all participants received internship certificates from the university.  Each researcher got to work in a cer

  04.08.2021