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• The Magic of: White Nights

  …e adventures I missed out by refusing to join them. It’s about learning to dance salsa in the park with a boy from Cuba. It’s about enjoying ginger tea in an outside cafe and discovering that the person you thought was your boyfriend checked expiration dates on shampoos, and walking out of there single. It’s about sharing their magic, or keeping it all to yourself. …

  21.05.2019

• Light in the City: How Light Affects Our Mood and Emotions

  …oticed aspect of light pollution. Incorrect or excessive lighting can have a negative impact on the state of the environment. For example, specialists at parks in Rome discovered that owls have vanished from their premises. They started to analyze the problem and found that it was caused by light pollution. Insects react to light on a cellular level: most ofte…

  20.05.2019

• Master’s Student Mrinal Vashisth: Embracing Interdisciplinarity is Like Discovering Your Superpowers

  … really imagine how you can use them separately from each other. In my field, interdisciplinarity is becoming all the more relevant, a method that can lead to new results and discoveries. If you want to study biology, you have no choice but to do it comprehensively. I can’t say that I focus on any particular field. When you become absorbed in some singular subject…

  17.05.2019

• Master's Students from Mexico on Studying in Russia and ITMO's Art&Science Program

  …to having studied to become a biotechnologist in Mexico. This search led her all the way to Moscow’s Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech). While there, she discovered bio art and Art & Science, and self-professedly fell in love with this exciting field at the intersection of exact sciences and humanities. “Technologies and art form and define …

  16.05.2019

• Places to See: Libraries of St. Petersburg

• Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum: How Science Communication Helps Bridge Divide Between the Nations

  … Among some of the topics examined by this year’s teams were: the US-Russia relations in the fossil fuel transportation field, conflict coverage in the context of political discourse in the media, international arms control and law enforcement in the information revolution, regional security in Central Asia, the US-Russia space partnership, and even the role of hip…

  07.05.2019

• Vantage Point: Different Ways to Explore St. Petersburg

  …By tram The first time I went on a tram-tour was when I was ditching school. I just never got off the tram at the right stop and took it all the way to the depot, discovering a large portion of the city in the process. I still sometimes do that – not so much to ditch school, but to explore cities. The first tram in St. Petersburg was launched in 1907 and laid …

  01.05.2019

• 2019 Guide to May Holidays in St. Petersburg

  …vico Einaudi, Erik Satie, Astor Piazzolla, and Johann Pachelbel. Tickets cost 800 rubles for one and 1,400 rubles for two, so don’t be shy to rope in a friend to get a little discount. Tours to lighthouses Want to spend some quality time outdoors away from the hustle and bustle of the city? Just embark on a day trip to the lighthouses of the Leningrad Oblas…

  30.04.2019

• Academic Freedom and Focus on Interdisciplinarity: Leading Experts on Key Trends in Master’s Studies

  …ty to decide on their future career and acquire more in-depth competencies and skills. “If we were to look at the situation from the labor market point of view, we’d discover that in many ways, it also can’t go very far without Master’s studies. Big companies and industrial partners need people who already have a specialization and a sufficiently in-depth kn…

  30.04.2019

• Polytechnic Museum’s Curator Alexey Semikhatov: Logic and Math Help Us Predict the Unknown

  …y idea that lies at the foundation of the famous story about Isaac Newton and the apple that, reportedly, fell on his head while the scientist moongazed and prompted Newton’s discovery of the law of gravity. It was then that two key things were made clear to the scientist: that the earthly and the celestial are one and the same and subject to the same laws, and there…

  30.04.2019