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• Vatrushka: Delicious Tvorog Pastry With a Mysterious Past

  …oslavic word for fire, again allowing us to trace back its symbolic meaning for the Kupala Night. According to other sources, however, it's a derivative from tvorog, with certain reductions and phonological changes added through centuries of use.  Finally, though we know next to nothing about the strikingly different vatrushka of my childhood (that my mom still gr…

  19.07.2021

• Winners of the I am a Professional Contest Share Their Experience

  …he other hand, shifted the focus from theory to practice. For example, in Internet of Things, it was necessary to design and implement a “smart mine” system with practically no restrictions related to technologies, and in Software Engineering we had to come up with a “smart fish farm” management system, paying special attention to the economics of the project. Such t…

  16.07.2021

• The Future of Life Sciences: Video Game Treatments, Top Vaccines, and Preventing Apocalypse

  …oping a vaccine in a year was believed to be impossible, but researchers were able to overcome this challenge. Over 200 projects were launched all over the world and there are now functional vaccines available that are based on a great variety of technologies.  Vaccines can be sorted into three main types based on their mechanism. The first ones contain the whole …

  16.07.2021

• ITMO Hosts ITMO.KIDS Summer School

  …nsidered the proposed concepts and fleshed out their projects. Over the third and fourth day, the young students drew up and assembled the boxes which were to be protected from “unsanctioned access” and integrated their security systems. On the fifth and final day, the teams made final modifications and improvements to their devices. “A summer school is always m…

  15.07.2021

• Pocket Time Machine: Digital Projects About Russian History

• The Internet of Things Technologies in Modern Industrial Programming

  …? There is no one single definition. Initially, IoT was understood as a concept for data transmission networks between physical objects into which tools and technologies for interaction are embedded. However, as more devices, such as smart acoustic systems or wearable gadgets began to appear, the definition shifted towards specific products that are available for …

  15.07.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 17-18, 2021

  …t an incredible chance to see what some call the best movie of the 1990s, Trainspotting, on the big screen. A modern classic with a star-studded cast exploring the topics of drug addiction, atrocities of urban life, and the darker corners of consumerism, this is definitely a must-see (or even a must-read if you have the chance) and this summer you can do it at a vari…

  14.07.2021

• Some Like It Cold: ITMO Experts Talk Latest in Cryogenics

  … Heike Kamerlingh Onnes’ experimental set-up was only capable of producing just 60 ml of liquid helium in 12 hours! It was only in the 1930s that Pyotr Kapitsa designed helium liquefaction stations that could produce two liters of the substance every hour. Interestingly, helium was first discovered on the Sun before it was found on Earth, and its liquefactions, masks, and scorching temperatures, I really liked it. I especially enjoyed communicating with European fans, for instance, Spaniards were very excited. Once I was also lucky to w…

  13.07.2021

• Movie Fridays: Films Made by Women

  … centers around Aileen Wuornos, a real-life serial killer who murdered several of her clients in the early 1990s before being captured and sentenced to death. An uncharacteristic depiction of a certainly dangerous woman who is not an object but she sees herself as a hero, this is a bloody and mentally unstable story.  Little Women (2018) Having already ment…

  09.07.2021