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Partying for Sustainable Development: How Festivals are Going Green
…e with recommendations for organizers of festivals, but it did not seem to have a visible effect. The brochures were distributed in hotels, at festival venues, and among event managers. Later, one of the city’s major companies had initiated a study that aimed to outline concrete guidelines regarding the methods, standards, and organization of such events. As a res…
12.04.2019
Business Model Canvas: Visualizing Your Business Ideas
…About Business Model Canvas The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management tool that provides a template for documenting business ideas, analyzing them and identifying their strengths and weaknesses. In its essence, the method, which was invented by the Swiss business analyst Alexander Osterwalder, can be presented as a common algorithm for solving the smorg…
12.04.2019
Space Tourism: How to Book a Flight to the Orbit
…-flight training Preparation for a trip to space begins approximately six months in advance and consists of several stages, explains Denis Shapiro, who has worked in flight management at the Russian branch of Space Adventures, in an interview to Vitaly Egorov (Zelenyikot). Almost all training takes place in Russia, at Star City, and the Korolev Rocket and Space…
12.04.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 13-14
…either (April 13, from 9.30pm, tickets), Easy, a comical road movie with gravitas (April 14, from 9pm, tickets), and As Needed, a comedy about a veteran chef “with minor anger management problems” forced to take on a couple of young padawans (April 14, from 7pm, tickets). The full program is available here (in Russian). Tickets start at 200 rubles. Films are screened…
10.04.2019
Pop Goes the Bubble: A Quick Guide to Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and ICOs
Exploring North Rhine-Westphalia: St. Pete Startuppers Pitch to German Companies
…ing and safe and accessible data transfer. The participants also had to choose the best projects and vote for them alongside the jury. Among the experts were Oliver Weimann, a managing director at ruhr:HUB, Harald Kremer, the head of the cluster of nanotechnologies, microsystems engineering, new materials and photonics of the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia, …
10.04.2019
Travel Tips: Pskov
…l for music by Rachmaninov. At the same time, Pskov has always been on the western border of Slavic lands, and even now it’s just 30-minute drive from Estonia. Somehow, it manages to blend the Russian and the European vibes. The heart of the city is the Krom (Kremlin), a 13th-century fortress with massive boulder walls. Towering over two rivers, it was deeme…
09.04.2019
Water-Spraying Parasols and Smart Traveling Apparel: Projects by Teens in Tech
…n easy task, but we’re proud of our finalists, who presented projects on very high level,” shares Tatiana Tokareva, the vice dean of ITMO University’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations. The spring 2019 session was the fifth in the school’s two-year history. Initiated by two ITMO University staff Tatiana Gaponenko and Arseny Tretyakov, the first…
09.04.2019
University of Mexico’s Carlos Gershenson: Computers Are Telescopes With Which We Study Complex Systems
…ey became our telescopes with which we studied complex systems. How did we study space before the telescope? It was impossible to see past the moon. It was Galileo Galilei who managed to see the moons of Jupiter with his primitive telescope. After that, our study of space has expanded far beyond our own limits of perception. Less than a century ago telescopes became …
08.04.2019
Programming Music with Sonic Pi: A How-To
…ll let you into the pilot’s place unprepared: you’ll have to learn maths, physics, aerodynamics, psychology, leadership skills and many other things. Eight years after, if you manage to cram it all in, they’ll let you fly. In other words, to fly a jet, you’ll first have to study a lot of things not necessarily related to flights per se. You’ll be learning how to fly …
08.04.2019