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Movie Fridays: Netflix’s New Stalker Drama You
…oung adult drama, which I love with all my heart despite their total lack of contact with reality, I made myself comfortable and prepared for some sentimental up-and-down love story seasoned with insights into modern life and witty dialogs (hopefully). Can’t say that I was completely wrong: You does tell an up-and-down love story of two…
05.04.2019
Moscow Claims ICPC Champion Title for Second Year in a Row
… the final stage in 1996. In this time, Russian teams have won the champion’s title fourteen times, ITMO University being the only seven-time champion in the event’s 40-year history; this is twice as many as that of its closest competitors, including Stanford University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, MIT, and other major universities. ITMO University has previously …
04.04.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 6-7
… presented at a photo exhibition organized by the city’s most renowned modern photographers and also held at the ArtMuse creative cluster on April 1-30. Learn more about the history of our magnificent city and look at it from a different perspective (quite literally). The creative space is open from 11am till 10pm. Entrance is free. Whether you want to buy a fancy…
03.04.2019
Song of the Month: March 2019
…ending troubles at the hands of his hungry, thirsty countrymen who’ll stop at nothing to turn poor John into a bit of whisky. Johnny Flynn’s masterful modern adaptation of the story told hundreds of times by all sorts of singers is, at times, zestful, melancholic, and paranoid; it is, indeed, a feat of storytelling to make you feel sorr…
29.03.2019
ScienceMedia Forum Participants on Their Work and Modern Journalism
…you could meet on the streets. It doesn’t matter what these people do professionally and whether they’re successful by society’s standards. What matters is their personal life story. A year ago, we won a 100,000 rubles grant from Mediavesna (a contest for student media and young journalists). We haven’t allocated the prize money properly yet, but our plan is to pu…
28.03.2019
How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology
Anecdotes: Telling Jokes the Russian Way
…First off, let’s clear up one potential misunderstanding. In English, the word anecdote refers to “a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person”;that was once the case with the Russian language, as well. But starting in the early 20th century, its meaning changed, and anecdotes became fictional short stories told for the purpose of having a go…
26.03.2019
Plastic Cards from Magnetic Stripes to Apple Pay: How Payment Industry Changed Over 70 Years
…specific shops and restaurants. These transactions operate not money but rather services you could get for that money. What are different types of plastic cards? The story of plastic cards began in the 1950s, when the first magnetic-stripe cards were launched. The standard of how magnetic stripes are coded was also created then and there by the company IBM.…
26.03.2019
Professor Fabio Bonsignorio on the Need of Reproducibility of Robotic Research and the Future of the Economy
…nd can’t do. Does it have anything to do with the DARPA Challenge? The DARPA Robotics Challenge, which has last taken place a few years ago, is a slightly different story. DARPAlaunched a contest in order to understand robots’ current limitations. For example, they tested whether an humanoid robot can reach a door handle, turn it at a proper angle and open…
25.03.2019
University of Pretoria Scientists on Applications of Metabolic Analysis
…eak them into different groups. For example, safe and unsafe ones,” explains Jacobus Johannes Marion Meyer. The efficiency of metabolic analysis is substantiated by the history of developing antimalarial agents. Scientists spent lots of time on searching for a cure until they found artemisinin, a substance that can be extracted from plants, for example artemisia…
22.03.2019