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• Experience Academic Mobility: International Students On How they Feel about Studying at ITMO

  …cheating! It is all about similarity: when you hear a new world in Russian it may sound like a Polish one, so sometimes it is very easy to guess its definition. Read Nicolas' story about his experience of Russia. Olga Sabados, Germany Master’s student, the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences My family is from Moldova, my parents moved to Germany when I …

  14.12.2016

• Surviving Yemen, Surviving ITMO

• Hermitage’s Head Clocksmith on his Work, Laboratory and the Importance of Restoring Technological Marvels

  …, and mysterious in how it works. What's more, there are few working mechanical clocks from 18th century, and the Peacock is well-advertised. Does every clock have a history to be told? It's not always like this. Not all of the exhibits have remarkable past, but some have really unique history. For instance, Shtrasser's big c…

  07.12.2016

• Popularizing Science: Director Dmitry Zagilevsky on Shooting Popular Science Films in Russia

  … personal archive   So you look for ideas in your friends work, aren’t you? In essence, yes. When you work on a film, you always meet new people, and each has his own story in science. I like to tell about their lives, about the complex philosophical problems they have to solve. For example, in the "Waiting for Waves and Particles", I show the work of physic…

  05.12.2016

• The Ultimate Guide to the Russian Banya (Part 2)

• 5 Things You Need to Know

  …"Atlas of the Underworld" revealed oceans and mountains lots of Earth’s history. A complete x-ray of Earth’s interior is coming into focus with a catalogue of subducted plates and related surface rock records. Graphene textiles could enable wearable electronics. A new method of producing environmentally friendly conductive cotton fabrics using graphene-based ink o…

  28.11.2016

• The Ultimate Guide to the Russian Banya

  …eshed than I had ever been in my life before. It’s difficult to underestimate the importance of the Banya in Russian life and culture. Over the course of the country’s history, while the rest of Europe wallowed in medi squalor and disease, Banyas were credited with keeping Russia healthy and "in a higher state of cleanliness". During communism, when many liv…

  25.11.2016

• Mind Games: Quests as a Way to Learn and Have Fun at the Same Time

  … 2015 there were more than 2,800 different kinds of quests around the world. Some of the most popular and interesting worldwide include The Lost Spy in New York, a cold-war storyline in which contestants must investigate the disappearance of secret agent Jack Redwood in order to prevent a plot by the Soviet Union to destabilize and the "Free World', and Egyptian T…

  25.11.2016

• A New City Guide App from the Science Slam Participant

  …'ve been thinking up a topic for my diploma. I went through all the subjects I know well and then remembered that since my school years, I was really interested in my city's history and culture, won contests and the like. Also, I remembered that it's often hard to navigate in a new city. And that is a problem, because when traveling, you want to spend your time as ef…

  24.11.2016

• How Can We Affect the Evolution Theory Today?

  …ines of speciation. Later such phenomena as genetic drift and flow as well as mutations were also marked as the mechanizms of evolution. In different periods of the world’s history, the theory was criticized and reinterpreted in various ways. In the Soviet Union the theory by Friedrich Engels was considered as the main one. The idea of his manual called "the Part Pl…

  24.11.2016