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• Yandex Zen: A User’s Manual

  …About Yandex Zen In the words of the website itself, Yandex Zen is an “endless feed of content selected with a specific user in mind. Zen is constantly searching the internet to find information potentially interesting for you and you alone and combines the best of the best in your personal feed.” Though sounding great, this description leaves us none the wiser as…

  03.04.2019

• Gamified Education and Blockchain for IPs: Winners of Potanin Foundation’s Grant Competition

  …onal programs. Secondly, the project’s online nature means that students can download educational materials, complete assignments, take tests and receive feedback via the internet. After a course is completed, the system generates a student’s digital portfolio that reflects their achievements and skill levels. Elements of gamification engage and motivate students,…

  02.04.2019

• ITMO University Starts Lectures at New Holland

  … Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and scientific curator of the Polytechnic Museum, will talk about “Prediction of the Unknown: From Quarks to Planets and Parallel Universes”. Lecture Hall’s schedule will be updated every month. Follow its news on New Holland’s website.…

  02.04.2019

• Get to Know ITMO's Robotics and Control Specialists

  … book will teach you how to become "+1" or at least "0", but not "-1". Favorite scientific theory or formula? – I want to mention not a theory or formula, but a photo of planet Earth, taken by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers. The name of the photo is "Pale Blue Dot". If you have some "great troubles" at work or in you…

  28.03.2019

• ScienceMedia Forum Participants on Their Work and Modern Journalism

  … lessons on the art of radio presenting to both children and adults. My ideal job would be working on my own project. I don’t care that much whether it’ll be on TV or the internet, what’s important for me is to be surrounded by talented specialists and unite them into one tight-knit team, in a way that everyone would just enjoy the process and wouldn’t feel that they…

  28.03.2019

• Business Software: Seminar at Dassault Systèmes Company

  … for five years in a format of collaboration. According to the company’s staff, the Dassault Systèmes Incubator Collaboration Program is an open innovative entrepreneurship network. Apart from access to the company’s software, participants also get an opportunity to establish useful connections with the company’s industrial partners, as well as the company’s suppo…

  28.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 30-31

  …nal event encouraging individuals, communities, and businesses to turn off non-essential electric lights for one hour, from 8.30 to 9.30pm, as a symbol of commitment to the planet. Because hey, nothing says commitment to the planet like an hour of window dressing at the backdrop of year-long, off-limit consumption with plastic supplanti…

  27.03.2019

• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  …onger say that there's research that proves the efficiency of dermatoglyphic methods for assessing innate abilities. Authors of dermatoglyphic tests often call their system “genetic”, which would mean that dermal ridge patterns are hereditary. In reality, this issue is yet to be proved. The dermal ridge patterns are different even in identical twins. Therefore, it is…

  27.03.2019

• Robotic Trolleys, Smart Drones and Full Automation: How Things Work at Unilever Factory in St. Petersburg

  …ion process is: people are only responsible for controlling the most important steps and packaging. What was also new to me was wearing special protective clothing and head bonnets; it’s all very clean in there, an indicator of the producer’s responsibility for the quality of their products”. Opportunities for students at Unilever In addition to taking a tour…

  27.03.2019

• Plastic Cards from Magnetic Stripes to Apple Pay: How Payment Industry Changed Over 70 Years

  …t money but rather services you could get for that money. What are different types of plastic cards? The story of plastic cards began in the 1950s, when the first magnetic-stripe cards were launched. The standard of how magnetic stripes are coded was also created then and there by the company IBM. But after a (granted, rather …

  26.03.2019