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• Odd and Obscure Sculptures of St. Petersburg

  … monument is dedicated to the character of Gogol’s surreal short story The Nose, a nose that’s abandoned its owner to lead a separate life, eventually surpassing its host by attaining the rank of State Councillor. Though initially a temporary installation for the 1995 International Festival of Satire and Humor in St. Petersburg, the monument became so popular that, a…

  08.10.2019

• ITMO University Students Win The Largest Hackathon in History

  … transparency, manufacturability, and openness. Have you ever participated in such events before? Valeria: This is my first competition of such a scale. We were given certain tasks and immersed ourselves in 48 hours of happiness: without sleep, but with lots of energy drinks and food. Kirill: This is my first hackathon where I was a participant; before that,…

  08.10.2019

• Pickle Like a Russian

  …You’ll see them in movies, as a side dish at parties, in good company of black bread and salted pork belly, sold from wooden vats in markets and in plastic containers at supermarkets. They’re are a Russian icon – dill pickles – and you can still get in on their season. Russian dill pickles are different from any of their Western counterparts. For starters, they ge…

  07.10.2019

• Light Can Cool: ITMO Scientists Propose Concept of Optical Nano-Refrigerator

  …sible to use light for cooling and not only for heating has been puzzling scientists for the past 100 years. In 1929, German scientist Peter Pringsheim suggested that under certain conditions, light can indeed lower the temperature of a substance rather than raise it. This idea caused widespread controversy in the scientific world, with some arguing that such an assu…

  07.10.2019

• Top Five: Podcasts

  …Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster People keep drilling on and on that perfection is unattainable, but they really need to do their research better. Take two brilliant comedians (Ed Gamble and James Acaster, our unbridled adoration of whom goes way back), plus the topic of food, aka the best thing about life, plus wonderful, witty guests, and boom, you’re t…

  04.10.2019

• ITMO University Specialists Take First Place at International Competition VolgaCTF 2019

  …Portugal. The first place went to the team LC↯BC, representing ITMO University.  This isn’t your first competition in this field. What do you make of it? Vlad Roskov, captain of LC↯BC: I would rather call VolgaCTF a national event because there was no strong competition on the part of the international teams present. On the whole, this wasn’t a bad experience: …

  04.10.2019

• Taiwanese Nutrition Scientist on Foodsharing, Functional Foods, and Grashopper Protein

  …ade of insects, like grasshoppers, for example. How viable are those forecasts? Just like you said, the many proteins from meat will be substituted with protein products obtained from insects. As of now, only a few people are ready for this change, but the majority, of course, cannot accept that. Even I would wince if you asked me about eating grasshoppers. It is…

  04.10.2019

• Quantum Potential: 400+ Attend the 4th ITMO Science Stand-Up Show

  …re boring” stereotype. Take Alexander Panchin or Asya Kazantseva for example, they are great. There are many scientists nowadays who can present a complicated topic in an entertaining way that is easy to understand. I wholeheartedly support them. Darya Radina, fourth-year student, ITMO University It’s my first time here, I saw the ad and decided to see for …

  03.10.2019

• Engineer and Scientist in One: How ITMO Trains Developers of New MRI Systems

  …-scale research laboratories. For example, the largest European scientific centers such as Paris-based NeuroSpin carry out experiments on 7T tomographs with the capacity of containing the entire human body. In Russia, ultra-high-field MRI is conducted exclusively on special preclinical tomographs designed for use on laboratory animals. Working with these medical and …

  03.10.2019

• Ex-Chairman of European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism Michael Kramer on Developing Cycling Tourism

  …aveling in northern Finland and I only met two people on my way. I asked them where they were from. It turned out that they were from Australia and decided to ride the Iron Curtain Trail cycling route. They didn’t have any books with them and used only a GPS navigator. What do you pay attention to when riding a route?  First of all, popular tourist attracti…

  03.10.2019