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• New Partnership: ITMO’s Esports Team and CS.MONEY

  …existing teams by coming up with new ideas.  “Students are great employees as they have a flexible approach, critical thinking, and soft skills that are more difficult to master than tech knowledge. These features help them remain demanded on the market. Moreover, most players are students, and they have many stimulating thoughts, approaches, and ideas for espor…

  12.01.2021

• To Infinity and Beyond: How Modern Discoveries Are Changing Our Understanding of the Solar System

  …, lies the Kuiper belt. Even though it looks like a belt of asteroids, it consists of bodies that are more like comets. Moreover, it is about 20 times wider and 200 times more massive. Pluto is the largest known object of the Kuiper belt.  But even the Kuiper belt is not all there is – next comes the scattered disc, a region sparsely populated with small bodies mo…

  11.01.2021

• ITMO Student Dmitriy Tsarev on Theoretical Physicists, Quantum Physics and Its Similarities With Professional Sports

  …we have a very fruitful collaboration. Was it Aleksandr Alodzhants who suggested that you enrolled at ITMO after his move to St. Petersburg? Yes, it was him. First, to a Master’s, and then to a PhD program. What drew you to quantum physics? We all want to believe in miracles. The quantum world is full of magic, what is happening at a microscopic level…

  11.01.2021

• Potential Threat, Treasure Trove, or Future Home: Why Scientists Study Asteroids

  …lose in on it. On the whole, we know of about 22,000 asteroids that are able to get close to our planet. Despite the vast number of objects that it’s composed of, the total mass of the main belt is just about 0.0004 of that of Earth, and this speaks against the hypothesis that the belt is the remains of a formerly existing planet. If we were to bring all of its as…

  08.01.2021

• Seven Sins of Our Memory or Why We Forget Things

  …the USA Memory Championship and break the record for memorizing cards. In his book Moonwalking with Einstein, he describes the entire process of preparing for the competition, mastering mnemonic techniques, and shows the infinite capabilities of our brain – if only you learn to structure information and, of course, train a lot. Mnemonic techniques have been around…

  07.01.2021

• Koliada: Russian Trick-or-Treating?

  …While we all are more or less aware what the trick-or-treating process looks like, the koliada (a Slavic tradition that takes place on the Eve of Orthodox Christmas) is more of a mystery.  Let’s try to figure out what it’s all about. Basically, koliada is quite similar to trick-or-treating, at least by the looks of it: people walk house-to-house greeting neighbors…

  07.01.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: January 9-10, 2021

  …omething that delicious – we can’t help but say yes. At the Food Truck Park, you can enjoy Hawaiian pokes, Vietnamese tom yum soups, Italian piadina flatbreads, fresh truffle smashburgers, falafel shawarmas, and many types of potatoes with different sauces – let alone hot seasonal drinks. The New Year’s atmosphere, retro-style garlands,…

  06.01.2021

• Cyber-Corona: How Businesses Managed the Transition to Working From Home

  …on security discussed the key problems of the transition to remote operation, the associated risks, and the ways to minimize them in the future. Corona circumstances The mass transition to working remotely shaped the new requirements for corporate security systems. A survey by Check Point showed that 56% of companies encountered problems associated with organiz…

  06.01.2021

• Watermelon Snow and Palm-Size Snowflakes: Exciting Facts About Snow

  …ted by sundown. Meteorologists explain that this has to do with a process called meridional circulation: due to the climate change processes of the recent decades, warm air masses are being pushed further towards the Arctic, while the cold air masses from that region move down south. The most common place to find snow isn’t actual…

  05.01.2021

• 5 Holiday Movies and Series to Binge On

  …Dash & Lily (2020; series) New York on Christmas – what could possibly be more romantic, right? Dash doesn't think so: this season, he was set to happily not celebrate alone in his dad's empty apartment. But during his usual hiding at a bookstore, he stumbles upon a journal teasingly daring him to fill out a message hidden in books all over the store to start …

  01.01.2021