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Lectures in the Hermitage: How to Combine Art and Science
…l 1820-s, then artists started using cheaper substitutes. How art and science interacted By Claudia Lastra The supervisor of the Arts Catalyst gallery presented a brief history of interaction between scientists and artists. The artists initiated this "collaboration" with researchers, representatives of industry and agriculture in the middle of the 18th century a…
21.11.2016
ITMO Sport Guide Part 2: Things about Sport You Should Know
…a’s and international competitions. How to choose a sport? ITMO has sport clubs opened long time ago, as they have lots of achievements, traditions and interesting history. The new clubs offer non typical sports that are not widespread at universities, such as tennis, fitness and power fit. [Ed. Read about ITMO’s sport clubs here]. Leadership Bachelor…
18.11.2016
Kazakhstan. Kyrgyzstan. Tajikistan. Not Countries That Are Right at the Top of Everyone’s Travel Bucket List
… largest all-wooden structure in the world. With its bright yellow facades and multi-coloured confectionary domes, it looks like it’s been transplanted from a children’s fairy story. Other highlights include the eye-popping soviet architecture of the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan, with its imposing brutalist pillars, poster-paint-blue roof and exhibits spanning …
17.11.2016
ITMO Sport Guide Part 1: Train Your Brain and Build your Body
…act information: ant.okhotnikov@yandex.ru Anton Okhotnikov, team manager Training schedule: Wednesday 18.00−20.00, Saturday 12.00−15.00 Billiards The history of billiards runs deep. It is known that when the game appeared the first cues were very short and looked like wooden clubs. With the passage of time cues became longer and billiards gain…
11.11.2016
World’s Science Day: What Are the Cherished Dreams of Researchers?
… doing this job. My field gives me these three things, so I am almost never tired of this. Daniil Voloshin, engineer at the eScience Research Institute It is a fascinating story; when I was a child I saw a crowd and told myself: "I have to understand how it works." The more researchers I met at university, the more enthusiasm for studying I got. I wanted to unde…
10.11.2016
Happy Birthday Computer Virus
"World of Knowledge" - The Best Science-Popular Films of the XI International Film Festival
…. This year, the Society’s special prize went to the "Desht-i-Kipchak. The Hieroglyphs" film by Alexei Kamensky and Bahit Kairbekov — this one was on the script, culture and history of kipchaks. The diploma of the Presidential Library went to Vladimir Shuvannikov’s film "Nikolay Przhevalsky. A life-long expedition". Maryam Mahieva, graduate of Saint Petersburg Sta…
08.11.2016
Hey, Buddy, What’s Up in Google?
… team also worked on a new option for Google Play. For instance, we have a news post. Using machine learning, an algorithm "recognizes" its main topic and then generates a new story about it, picks up all necessary information, and posts it. Unfortunately, I cannot disclose all secrets before the official release. The only thing I can add is that I dealt with servers…
02.11.2016
Cancer Detection: How To Stay Out of Harm’s Way
…ple. There are "slow" types of cancer. Those take so much time to develop that a patient will die even before they do. For example, prostate cancer is like this. So what's the story with it? There is an antigen that allows detecting any kind of prostate cancer (by the way, 100% of males have it when they reach 70). Some do biopsy — through the large bowel and sometim…
31.10.2016
A Business Coach on How to Improve Oneself:"If Everything Is Clear Why Don’t You Follow These Rules?"
…y books devoted to tech trends that will be relevant in 50 years. What to do if someone wants to create a unique idea as opposed to reinvent the wheel? The world’s history shows us that the first thing people do is copying. For instance, all modern music styles are based on imitation. Those musicians called "icons" started with readjusting songs created by …
28.10.2016