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• How to Write a Thesis on Marvel Comic Books: PhD Student Daniil Shirokov Explains

  …wy macho. When Bruce transforms into Hulk, he is, in essence, governed by a woman: only Betty Ross can calm him down and return him to normality, so she’s the real boss in the story. But there were some unexpected findings, too. For one, it’s shocking how few humanities scientists make it to the Marvel comics: only 24 of 2,500 scientific protagonists are philologi…

  12.10.2018

• Motasem Awaja’s Journey: A 2018 Open Doors Scholarship Winner

  … Egypt for a few months and apply for my visa there.” As soon as he got his invitation three months later, he made his way to the Russian embassy in Cairo. He explained his story at his visa interview and obtained his visa on the same day. Two days after that he was in St. Petersburg, arriving just in time for the start of the first semester. “I am in awe of …

  11.10.2018

• University of Amsterdam Professor on the Importance of Crowd Behavior Research and Putting Minecraft to Good Use

  …signed with the help of computer simulation, the Jamaraat Bridge accounted for a significant decrease in danger, but still failed to prevent the 2015 tragedy. The moral of the story? Even the most high-quality computer simulation doesn’t guarantee a 100% safety rate, believes Michael Lees, professor at the University of Amsterdam. Two years ago, he and his col…

  11.10.2018

• ITMO University Launches Digital Humanities Research Lab

  …ust replicate our solutions, but develop individual cases for each partner, says Antonina Puchkovskaya. We’ve already signed agreements with two museums: State Museum of the History of Religion and St. Petersburg's Museum of Urban Sculpture. They are helping us gather materials and develop cases. In future, we will also develop a case on theaters and music in St. Pet…

  11.10.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 13-14

  …ents, try the best kimchi, and even take part in the traditional Korean tea ceremony. Among the festival’s headliners are contemporary Korean band UNI-FI BAND, and drama group Storytelling. The festival kicks off at midday on October 13 in the Artplay design center. Entrance is free. Interested in contemporary photography? Then the Presence International Photograp…

  10.10.2018

• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Baroque

  …nally planned as the heart of the city. Among the most vivid examples of this style is Trezini’s Twelve Collegia building, with its candy-like façade of twelve identical three-story sections, which now belongs to St. Petersburg State University. This white and red street-long building is so elegant and impressive that the only question that pops to your mind when …

  09.10.2018

• Break Down to Atoms: Why It’s So Hard to Become an Astronaut in Russia

  …ents are the command of English on the level of a technical university, mathematics and physics on high school level, good Russian and computer skills, keen knowledge of the history of space exploration, and the ability to study any of the spacecraft’s systems in a night’s time and be ready to explain it the next morning. Oftentimes, the exams are administered by mul…

  09.10.2018

• Civilization Historian, Cyber Security Ace, Filmmaker: Who’s Who at ITMO’s New Art&Science Program

  …of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In August 2015, I went to Bard College in New York to study English and came back there two years later to do a semester exchange. I majored in History of Civilizations, so I have a humanities background. My thesis was dedicated to the history of the French Communist Party and its interaction with the USSR.…

  08.10.2018

• Movie Fridays: The Autumn Showdown

  …onic acting works. Perhaps unsurprisingly, their new collaboration picks on much of the themes their first picture together ventured into so famously. Kidding tells the story of Jeff Pickles, a lovable kids TV host simpatico leading a correspondingly goody-two-shoes existence until a familial tragedy stops him in his tracks. The pervasive publicity of his life…

  05.10.2018

• Hot Air Balloons, Telescopes, and Sky Surfing: 2018 ‘Right Rudder!’ Youth Foresight Festival Takes Flight

  …ir navigation the festival is focusing on; participants were also challenged to test their knowledge of its past. The festival first day’s spotlights included ‘Time Loop’, a history quest set in the Russian aviation’s birthplace, the Komendantsky aerodrome. The participants saw the new monument dedicated to all aviators and unveiled this summer in the General Selezne…

  27.09.2018