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Change of Seasons: Autumn is Love
…ts on a daily basis (especially in autumn when my brain starts to come round after the heat-induced summer slurp), but my all-time favs include the good ol’ science-based BBC Discovery, the movie-related MTV number Happy Sad Confused with the ever-affable presenter Josh Horowitz interviewing his glitzy movie star friends and inspirations, Ghibliotheque, a heaven for …
02.10.2018
‘I Want to Create Something that Really Matters’: ITMO University’s First-Year Student On Developing Socially Significant Apps
Buy Groceries Like a Russian
…d supermarkets offer loyalty cards that are free or relatively inexpensive. They will give you access to daily or weekly promotions or sometimes let you buy items at everyday discounted prices. In St. Petersburg, my Okey and Lenta store cards often save me as much as 20 percent off the bill on average. Stores are open longer hours. Things may be differe…
01.10.2018
Art-Tir: Unleash Your Inner Pollock
…or the Old Masters, I’d still say that art is more about passion than skill. Given the necessary freedom, anyone can create a decent art piece, but few actually try. Some are discouraged after comparing their work with that of “real” artists, and as for me, it is the mess that I make of my room that prevents me from trying anything really unusual. Thankfully, there’s…
28.09.2018
Founder of Surprise Me: Managing a Startup is Like Running in the Dark
…risky as it was our main source of income. After doing that, we took the route of working with individual customers. We took our startup to several business incubators and discovered that the quests we offered weren’t that much different from traditional guided tours: participants go round the city interacting with a personalized itinerary. So we conducted a coupl…
28.09.2018
METANANO 2018: Professor Stefan Maier on Nanophotonics’ Key Tasks
…that our key focus is making things cheaper, lighter, and more responsive. Speaking of metamaterials. It’s practically every day that we hear about yet another interesting discovery in this field in this field. In your opinion, what are the key opportunities that metamaterials can offer us in the nearest future? The opportunities that we can make use of in the …
25.09.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 22-23
…formances. Try to stomach the artworks’ cryptic meanings, participate in workshops and guided tours, take a peek into mysteriously enclosed courtyards, meet the locals and discover their favorite recipes; the festival program truly delivers on its promise to give you some food for thought. ‘Art Prospect’ will be held on September 20-23, admission is free. 7th ‘…
19.09.2018
Nobel Prize Laureate Andre Geim: ‘Science is a Lifelong Marathon, Not a 100-Meter Sprint’
…properties, of how they allow molecules to flow by, is a completely new experimental system; no one has ever thought of doing this before. We’ve already made many fascinating discoveries, but there’s always a room for further development: for example, we need to explore how properties of, say, water change when subjected to limitations (ed. note: related research fin…
19.09.2018
Transcending Humanity: Evolution of Technological Art
… of the likes of the ultracomplex Athens Acropolis if construction techniques and materials hadn’t been sophisticated enough. Art-makers have always worked with technological discoveries of their time to capture historical developments and speculate about the future. With decades passing, this symbiosis between art and science becomes more and more convoluted.…
12.09.2018
Grand Chess Fest: ITMO Participants On Noble Game’s Unfading Appeal
…ticipants tried to assemble the Rubik’s Cube using their toes with their eyes closed. Such festivals are not only very interesting, but very useful, too, as they allow you to discover new sports and meet new people. In that sense they are very different from professional tournaments, which are more serious in tone and put the results first, whereas at events like the…
10.09.2018