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How to Study Effectively: Five Memorization Techniques for Acing Any Exam or Test
…ds in a new language, and so on. Example: In the treble clef, the names of the four spaces, bottom to top, are F, A, C, and E. If you’ve never studied music, these will be random abstract letters to you. But what pops up in your head right now? F-A-C-E – that’s the one. Rhymes or consonance Think of some catchy song – why does it take no effort to recite it?…
19.01.2021
Photographers Discovering Beautiful Abandoned Russia
…ot only about pictures and locations: it’s also filled with interesting stories and facts from the history of pre-revolutionary Russia @alexdoomer – a “researcher of abandoned places”; also has a blog @p01ina – an experienced traveler who shares lots of unusual locations with elaborate stories about them Captions in English @northern_fairy…
18.01.2021
Three Monsters of Thinking: ITMO Holds a Lecture on Evidence-Based Policy As Part of Hard Core Philosophy Project
…gic and Philosophy of Science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. They talked about the methodology of decision-making in politics and management, the problems of randomized controlled trials (RCT), and unavoidable mistakes in RCT-based conclusions. ITMO.NEWS has prepared the key points of the lecture titled “Causal inference in evidence-based policy.…
18.01.2021
To Infinity and Beyond: How Modern Discoveries Are Changing Our Understanding of the Solar System
…bility of discovering a new planet in the Solar System, Planet X. The fact is that the study of objects in the Kuiper belt and the scattered disk showed that they do not move randomly, as they should (because they are at a sufficient distance from Neptune to not depend on its attraction), but around a certain orbit. A number of scientists have suggested that all t…
11.01.2021
ITMO Student Dmitriy Tsarev on Theoretical Physicists, Quantum Physics and Its Similarities With Professional Sports
…gled. Separated in space, they still remain a single quantum mechanical object. For example, the atoms’ spin can have any orientation and the result of its measurement is random. However, if we measure the orientation of the spin of one atom, then the spin of the second will, as it were, adjust to this result, proceeding from the fact that the total spin was equa…
11.01.2021
Seven Sins of Our Memory or Why We Forget Things
…ared to a warehouse or library where each book is responsible for a separate story. The only problem is that there is no catalog in this library, and most of the books are in random order. People’s complaints may arise from irregularities in the process of storing or retrieving information. Continuing with the analogy of a library, the problem may be either that …
07.01.2021
Decorate For the Holidays Like a Russian
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ITMO University Researchers Shed New Light on Plasmonic Nanolasers
…is generation of energy was a result of the effect of multiple scattering of emissions on particles and their agglomerates in an active medium – a well-studied effect used in random lasers. However, as plasmons are not involved, no special device can be invented,” says Nikita Toropov, head of the team and a researcher at the International Research and Educational Cen…
08.12.2020
A Breath of Fresh Air in Science: ITMO Graduate on Finding Herself in Science, Interdisciplinarity and Bioinformatics
…what it is that they want. Then you simply need to turn your wishes into goals. As a Russian saying goes, what the eyes fear, the hands do. The key is to keep growing, never abandon your work, and never take a step back even if you don’t succeed at first – good opportunities come with challenges. To students of bioinformatics, I would recommend learning each cour…
08.12.2020