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OPORA RUSSIA: Championing Technological Entrepreneurship
…ge their money, believe the forum participants. “In addition to management leaders, we have to train technological leaders. There is an acute lack of managers able to promote technologies and evaluate the market. What this will impact the most is the quality of business in the country, as nowadays trade enterprises account for the majority of Russia’s small-…
07.11.2018
ITMO Graduate Anastasia Svarovskaya on Promoting Space Science
…the reason for such popularity? I think the development of the Internet and mobile networks had a part in this. Such technologies made it possible to use various formats in promoting space science. At one point, the administration of VK launched a community called VKosmose ("in space"), which attracted many people who probably never thought about space science bef…
06.11.2018
Movie Fridays: Studio Ghibli, Nuff Said
…ie the nation’s understanding of life, death, and beauty. Kawaii, the obsession with cuteness and all things childhood: however sophisticated, Studio Ghibli’s visuals don't compromise on this factor, though they never, never go over the top. Wabi-sabi, the imperfect and transient nature of beauty: there’s no way that Hayao Miyazaki would have cinematized the inherent…
02.11.2018
ITMO’s Teaching Methodology Wins Best Innovation Product Award
…ine, for example, optical physics. We’d offer our students a couple of independent project topics, maybe without a universal, breakthrough final result, but still unsolved and promising. Mikhail Mukhin: We’d be very glad if our experience inspired other faculties, laboratories and education program managers to introduce the project-based methodology to their activ…
02.11.2018
Physicists Design Next-Gen Antenna for Supersensitive Magnetic Field Detectors
…ive magnetometers of the new generation. Such devices should operate at room temperature and low input power. Moreover, they should be compact and relatively cheap. One of the promising options in this field is nanodiamonds with defects. Nanodiamonds are carbon nanostructures with a high refractive index and high thermal conductivity which almost do not interact with…
02.11.2018
State Hermitage Photographer Yuri Molodkovets on Running an Instagram for World-Famous Museum
… Theater who could see them, so we decided to develop this initiative further. One of our partners made a deal with a shopping center, and we've displayed our photos there. Promotion We never used any like-farming techniques to increase our Instagram engagement. We have over 255,000 subscribers, which makes us the most popular museum account in Russia, though i…
02.11.2018
What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer: Oncologist Explains
…ere is that after visiting a breast physician once, many women start doing regular checkups regardless of whether or not they have any symptoms. There are many sources that promote the benefits of self-examination. Does it really help? In my opinion, it’s not a very effective practice, as the chances that a woman will find a tumor less than a centimeter in size…
31.10.2018
Scientists' New Image And Academic Mobility: Professor Pavel Belov's Take on Modern Science
…trepreneur, who can spend only five percent of their time on science, and the remaining 95 on the issues of management such as searching for personnel, fundraising, choosing a promising research field and such. The results they get largely depend on how well they perform these tasks. In the past ten years, the attractiveness of science careers has increased a lot.…
31.10.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: November 3-5
…ife with planets dancing on its modernistic facade and drones serving an electric performance inside, which will probably be too much for the 1980’s building as the organizers promise it will tilt like the Leaning Tower of Pisa. If that’s not enough to blow your socks off, skedaddle to the Moskovsky Victory Park to take a gander at funky light installations, futur…
31.10.2018
Unexplored St. Petersburg: Tauride Palace Orangery
…t too cold to stay out. What’s more, the place itself was not what you’d expect after visiting its website; personally, I didn’t get to feel the “summer inside” as the webpage promised. What I got was something completely different. The first impression that you get from the Tauride Palace Orangery is that it’s really small. Seriously, it won’t take you as much as…
26.10.2018