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• 5 Surprises about WCs in St. Petersburg

  …WCs around the world are often a study in local culture. In St. Petersburg, they certainly run the gamut from swanky, marble-clad restrooms with bronze faucets in historic hotels to reasonably clean public restrooms (some are true architectural gems) to blue porta-potties in crowded areas to well, wooden outhouses at someone’s dacha. Then there’s always McDonald’s, a…

  12.08.2019

• Procrastination: Blessing or a Curse?

  …t like, but it pays well. The issue here is that your internal motivation will continue to deteriorate. It will become increasingly more difficult to understand what you truly want. In worst cases, we lose all sense of motivation and drive. Optimum motivation and the Yerkes-Dodson law Researchers Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson have once found t…

  12.08.2019

• The Experiment: Living Zero Waste for a Week

  … collection”) initiative, but the unpleasant realization that awaited me was that they stopped accepting a lot of stuff at their collection events because, as I was told, they want people to make use of the facilities nearby. It’s all fine and great, but I the first world problems sufferer am deeply traumatized about what to do with my stocks of PET, or single-use, p…

  09.08.2019

• 15 Talented Prospective Students Become Winners of 2019 ITMO.STARS Unique Achievements Contest

  …rticipate had to fill out an application on their personal page at the ITMO.STARS website, attaching their template-based portfolio and a motivation letter explaining why they want to study at ITMO University and what projects they would like to implement during their studies. Choosing the winners As in last year, the rules of the 2019 contest didn’t put a …

  08.08.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 10-11, 2019

  …ians Mary Govard (pianoforte), Sofia Bridge and Igor Zalivalov (violin, electric violin), the Games and Dreams (“Игры и Сны”) duet and Olga Maximova (harp, electric harp).  Want to discover more places that offer a bird’s-eye view of the architecturally magnificent Northern Venice? This article by ITMO.NEWS is your best bet!  The Union of Youth exhibition …

  07.08.2019

• ChemBio Cluster Master’s Students on Their International Internship Experience

  …ing the effectiveness of the treatment. Nanoparticles are also often used in targeted drug delivery, which, too, enhances the therapeutic effect. I pursue this topic because I want to make other people’s lives better, and this project is my contribution to paving the way for better treatment in the future. What you can learn as part of an internship My work dur…

  07.08.2019

• Dine with a View in St. Petersburg

  … view of the city and its many churches (including the Church of Savior on the Spilled Blood), parks, canals and rooftops. It couldn’t be in a more perfect location. So if you want to enjoy Chinese food with a view of St. Pete, China Gramota on Moika Emb. 7 is the place to be. It’s only a 10-15-minute walk from the Nevskiy Prospekt or Admiralteyskaya metro stations. …

  06.08.2019

• Quizzing and Mythbusting: Medical Lab Initiative Comes to ITMO University

  …while those who do well on their test will be presented with prizes from Medical Lab and Scandinavia Clinic. There are even training tests (in Russian) available for those who want to prepare. Medical Lab will take place on Saturday, August 17, at 12 PM at ITMO University’s main building at Kronverksky Prospekt 49, room 285. Participants must sign up here. The …

  06.08.2019

• ITMO University Scientists Present Record Amount of Works at the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Prague

  …t it works better in cases where certain parameters are large enough, for example when we have a fairly large population. But in practice, a large population, especially if we want to parallelize the process of calculating the fitness of a species, signifies that we must have a lot of processors, several thousand of them. It’s more feasible to use dozens, or even …

  05.08.2019

• Mendeleev 150: IUPAC’s Birthday and Invention of Periodic Law

  …own explanation. But there was another reason: money. By that time, he was married, had a son, and had another child on the way. He had also bought an estate near Tver that he wanted to renovate. All that required money. If he could write a good, thick textbook and reissue it every now and then, it could become a great source of additional income. And that’s what hap…

  02.08.2019