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• Science Fest: Future is Here

  …rs, camera angles, and special effects. Much as in conventional animation-making, all work here is done by hands, but in an unusual way: users use hand gestures to bring their story to life. Best user-created content is featured on Tvori’s Youtube channel. What Viktor likes the most is a short film about parachuting cats, created by a promising student directo…

  25.09.2018

• Signal Peptides as Means to Increasing Longevity

  …substance extracted from the epiphysis of calves, a gland that weighs about 0.2 grams. This substance regulates the endocrine system, and by far it is the best drug in human history. Still, we experience a problem, as the resources for producing it are scarce. As epiphyses weigh 0.2 grams only, and the gathering facilities in Russia were disrupted, we produce the dru…

  24.09.2018

• Movie Fridays: Laughs A La Française

  …insight into the great world of French cinema. I first watched it about ten years ago, and after the mawkish Twilight Saga, this delicate, tender and incredibly fairytale-like story was like a breath of fresh air. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, this whimsical and charming romantic comedy tells the story of Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tau…

  21.09.2018

• Nobel Prize Laureate Andre Geim: ‘Science is a Lifelong Marathon, Not a 100-Meter Sprint’

  …ractical implications for a wide range of different scientific fields from physics to biology and beyond. In one of your interviews you’ve mentioned that the 20th century history demonstrates that it takes from 20 to 40 years for new materials or drugs to get to the mass production stage. It is the same for graphene? There are lots of news articles testifying to i…

  19.09.2018

• DataArt Global Study: What are Russian Programmers Best At?

  …orm gives programmers a unique opportunity to boost their skills in several IT areas ranging from programming languages to project management techniques and computer science history at the same time, all in the exciting game format. The authors of the platform, the DataArt company developers, endowed the service with several distinctive features, one of which is givi…

  13.09.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 15-16

  …r to the lighthouses will kick off at 10am this Sunday, September 16 from Chyornaya Rechka (Черная речка) metro station and offer you a unique opportunity to learn about the history of these wonderful buildings, walk along the coastline, gaze at the sea, and feel the breeze in your hair! Tickets cost 1350 rub and can be purchased here. This Friday and Saturday, th…

  12.09.2018

• Movie Fridays: A Quick Fix

  …ent the humankind comes up with is just downright drivel that makes us a laughing stock among our intergalactic neighbors and something needs to be done ASAP. Great Big Story Putting faces to stories, spilling light on the curious origins of the most boring things of our daily humdrum, and dismantling ‘the grand chessboard’ to the little bricks of news that…

  07.09.2018

• The Land of the Rising Sun: Politeness, Self-Management, and Nature Conservation

  …g doramas and reading manga when I was a kid. I still read it now, together with research articles, of course. So I guess I’m a real otaku. Later I started studying Japanese history, and even ploughed through the Cambridge multi-volume history book and tried my hand at writing Haiku. However, when I first learned about this program, I d…

  06.09.2018

• Digital Technologies in Theater

  …nes becoming soft and even, too. The authors of the second performance attempted to answer the question of why dance as an art form has been so popular throughout the history of humankind. What feelings and emotions does it evoke? A professional dancer performed several dances, but his movements did not always correspond with the music: for example, the music …

  04.09.2018

• MELScience Founder Gives Lecture on VR in Education

  …ready knew some programming and he didn’t, so we collaborated. By the way, despite his lack of programming skills, he still managed to get a great job. How come? Well, this story can make a good example for anyone. He went to an interview and, as he knew nothing, put down everything he was told. The employer was so impressed with his diligence that he gave him a v…

  03.09.2018