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Song of the Month: November 2020
… and snow — which, sadly, never stayed for long. And the worst blow of them all was the constantly overcast sky. I am not even talking about the sun, this hope has long been abandoned, but when the night sky is only illuminated by the lights of the Lakhta Center... Well, that’s just wrong. That is why discovering We Watch The Stars in all of its hypnotizing slow-pace…
27.11.2020
Beneath the Pavement, Not the Beach: First Art & Science Conference on Soil
…e in Moscow. Andrey Tetekin, Luciano Brina, and Yu Gong investigated the so-called inner peripheries (a term proposed by the Russian geographer Vladimir Kagansky). These are abandoned territories formed after the collapse of the USSR, such as unused military and industrial landfills, depleted mines and quarries, abandoned high-security …
27.11.2020
Scientists Propose Method of Assessing the Gene-Disease Connection
…ake the bottle long enough, we’ll have something resembling a ship. Surely, this explanation may seem kind of funny, but it captures the essence of our method. You see, we do random operations, and if it turns out the way we like it, we save that and move on; if not, we forget these results and try again." Simply put, the scientists take a set of genes and remo…
27.11.2020
Friday Experiment: Attempting to Write Every Day
…o tackle them. Just like with any long-lasting project, it is important to pinpoint any potential or actual reasons that may lead you to procrastinating about it or even abandoning the whole idea. And just like with any creative endeavor, when writing something you (or is it just me?) always want it to be perfect, especially when it’s a public thing – this perfec…
20.11.2020
Inside the New Cafeteria on Kronverksky: Meals, Play Area, and Coworking Space
…la carte menu. A new hall for everyone Not only the menu and service have undergone changes – the dining room itself has been completely modernized. The designers have abandoned the classic style, making the new cafeteria more reminiscent of modern food courts in shopping malls and public spaces. “We are used to having separate halls for teaching staff and…
16.11.2020
Games to Play Remotely Together
…st, who would feverishly serve snacks and die tidying up the apartment. Online games are also merciful for lonely rangers (or for an insufficient number of players), offering random teams or artificial intelligence to play against. I hope this conviction made you change your mind if only for a while and give it a try, so heat up your PCs, and let’s get digital! …
13.11.2020
Three ITMO Students and a Graduate Win UMNIK Grant Competition – Here Are Their Projects and Plans
…no analogs of this system anywhere in the world. The results of testing will be analyzed using machine learning that would allow us to say if a person is ill or healthy. The standout featurec of this method is that it doesn’t look for certain compounds that are markers of specific illnesses. The system doesn’t provide a diagnosis but can say that there is something w…
09.11.2020
Speak Like a Russian: Phrases From Soviet Movies We Know by Heart
BizCycle Founders Develop Three New Bike Routes in Leningrad Oblast
…ons. The Historical route lies between Vyborg and Priozersk. It includes a medieval castle in Vyborg, Korela fortress in Priozersk, as well as military defence lines, abandoned churches, railways, and Finnish khutors. The Seaside route takes place along the Gulf of Finland. It starts at Torfyanovka near the Russian-Finnish border and ends at Privetninskoye…
29.10.2020
Unexplored St. Petersburg: Kanonersky Island
…and is quite a calm though a little desolate place, due to the construction of the elevated highway. Some of the already few island’s houses, located under this road, became abandoned against the wishes of their tenants. The total population decreased to about 4,000 people. But don’t let these complicated historical references scare you. Spending a warm sunny …
16.10.2020