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• Stephen Hawking: Life in Books

  …ed on his essay Singularities and the Geometry of Space-Time that won that year's Adams Prize. Hawking was 31, when his first book was published. In his 1988 book A Brief History of Time, he describes The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time as “highly technical” and unreadable for the common reader, but today this book is considered a classic. Collections o…

  19.03.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 17-18

  …isciplinary research project by artist Fedotov-Fedorov. Using different artistic means, the author expands on the different aspects of this peculiar topic, covering both the history of poisons and alchemy in the Medieval times and the modern times, when information presented on the Internet may be considered a "poison" of a different kind. The exhibition will take pl…

  14.03.2018

• Exchange Students from Brazil: 'They're Always Happy'

  …l with these guys. Before this, I just knew it was in South America, that’s all, and that there were the Olympics there 2 years ago, and now I’ve learned much more about the history and the culture of the country.” At the dorms, the Brazilian students met many students from many countries, such as Kazakhstan, Egypt, China, Kyrgyzstan, France, Germany, Turkme…

  09.03.2018

• Women and Science: ITMO’s Finest

  …d others launch rockets into space, so it’s impossible to pick the best. As for my field, I’d say Grace Hopper. She was a truly outstanding woman and left a great mark on history. What do you think about gender stereotypes associated with women in science? I think that things will change in the near future. In my opinion, all these stereotypes are connected …

  08.03.2018

• Bookstores of St. Petersburg

  … Website The bookshop Anglia has one of the probably largest collections of foreign literature in St. Petersburg, including books on arts, architecture, design, politics, history, music – the list goes on. Located in a building that was once home to prominent Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, this bookshop seeks to maintain the literary ambience of the past by organiz…

  06.03.2018

• Climate Change: Future Challenges for Urban Scientists

  …temperature, air pressure, water vapour, mass flow, and others. Currently, we are living during the time of anthropogenic warming; the recent decades were the warmest in the history of meteorological observations. Still, there’s an important thing one has to understand in regard to the modern climatic period: global warming does not mean that it’s getting warmer j…

  05.03.2018

• Academic Exchange in Brussels: Urban Science in the Heart of Europe

  …Free University of Brussels The Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) has a long history. Originally founded in 1834 as a French university, it introduced courses in Dutch in 1934; finally, in 1970 it split into two universities of the same name, one teaching in French and the other in Dutch. Even today, the universities work closely together. …

  26.02.2018

• Russia by Rail: A First-Hand Experience

  … mostly affordable means of travel, but let it be known that there are varying degrees of comfort. The Russian Railway System dates back to the very beginnings of railway history. The first-ever railway line in Russia was actually built between St. Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo (now Pushkin) in the 1830s. Just five years later the St. Petersburg - Moscow line was b…

  23.02.2018

• Sberbank President Herman Gref: ”R&D That People Ridiculed Yesterday is Taking Over Markets Today”

  …gainst blockchain, but if that’s what you want, you can’t prohibit cryptocurrencies – one can’t function without the other. Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is a slightly different story. It requires gentle regulation by the government because it’s a good instrument for industry and startup development. It will keep on developing, so it can’t just be banned.…

  22.02.2018

• Digital Humanities: Education in 21st Century

  …Fresh perspectives How do you merge history, literature and math? Can a computer analyze literary texts? These and other questions are ones posed by the field of digital humanities, an area of study at the junction of computer and soft sciences. Digital humanities entails the use of digitized and digital materials and combining the methodologies of computer sci…

  21.02.2018