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• ITMO University and EUSP Launch Joint Master’s Program ‘Science and Technologies in Society’

  …n it comes to entrepreneurship and the adoption and propagation of technology, there are many obstacles of which many are not all that familiar,” said Dr. Volkov. “Scientific discoveries are made in labs, organizations, teams. But we also can’t forget that they depend on the social climate and communication. These aspects are not sufficiently studied, and there is a …

  20.02.2019

• Ex-Executive Director of Nobel Foundation Michael Sohlman: How to Win the Nobel Prize

  …On education It’s impossible to say what exactly you have to do to become a Nobel Laureate; but most importantly, you have to write, discover or create something that has never been done before. Many insights can be found in the biographies of previous Nobel Laureate. Education plays a key role: Herbert A. Simon, who won the Nobel Prize “for his pioneering rese…

  18.02.2019

• Movie Fridays: Disconnect… The Person You’re Trying to Reach is Currently Unavailable

  …It was a lazy Saturday evening when, still swooning over Alexander Skarsgård’s exquisite performance in the recent series Little Drummer Girl, I found Disconnect. The synopsis promised a ‘riveting and intense’ thriller about the dangers of modern technology, but nothing life-changing, or too gruesome, or gore, or anything that would aggravate my already considerable …

  15.02.2019

• Project by ITMO Robotics Team Named Best at Baltic Science and Engineering Competition

  … robotics, and geosciences. As per the main rule of the competition, participants can only present non-abstractive research and projects that include an element of scientific discovery or come as a completed technical device. The young researchers who made it to the finals participate at a special exhibition, giving up to 20 presentations on their project a da…

  15.02.2019

• Grouchy Introvert's Valentine's Day Manifesto

  … grateful for various things in my life. And if not feeling it, then just writing it down. She proudly calls it The Hungry Dementor Method (c). I tried it preliminary, and discovered that though I just about manage to muster some gratitude for my morning coffee, its effect quickly wears off, leaving me with a headache, massive withdrawal craving for my next cuppa,…

  14.02.2019

• Dmitri Mendeleev: Everything You Need to Know About the Inventor of Periodic Table

  …uld recommend to students and realized that there weren’t any. So he decided to write one himself. It was when he was working on his Principles of Chemistry that Mendeleev discovered the periodic law of chemical elements. People say that it came to him while he was sleeping. This legend traces back to one of Mendeleev’s friends, but it appeared after the death of …

  14.02.2019

• Mendeleev 150, MedChem 2019, and Marnikov Congress: the International Year of the Period Table in Russia

  …s (a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford and the author of numerous popular chemical textbooks), evolutionary biologist David Seaborg (University of San Francisco), physicist Hideto En’yo (director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center), and professor Pekka Pyykkö of the University of Helsinki, who is known for his extension to the periodic table of elem…

  11.02.2019

• Vegetarian & Vegan St. Petersburg: Shops

  …t is their nuts, seeds, and dried fruit offerings; there are heaps of them, all promised to be of the newest harvest possible. They also sell the Vegetarian Card which yields discounts in a range of health food stores, amounting to 6% off in Green Point. 4fresh online shop with pick-up points all over the city Out of all the health shops listed, 4…

  08.02.2019

• Breathing-Checker Belt and Smart Trousers: ITMO Students Explore Health Devices at Tallinn University Winter School

  …es and even T-shirts that have an indicator line on their fronts which raises as you breathe in and falls when you breathe out. My colleagues who worked on a smart toothbrush discovered that there already are similar items which give off different-colored bubbles when a user cleans their teeth properly. All teams had complete freedom in deciding what their prototy…

  08.02.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 9-10

  …nd it’s hosted in the center of design and architecture Artplay, aim to address. Apart from family hand-me-downs and DIY’d trinkets, there will also be a special area with discounted creations by St. Petersburg designers, so you can do the noble deed of boosting local economy while you’re at it, as well as eat food, and lots of it. Admission is free, Garage Sale r…

  06.02.2019