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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 9-10

  …e 14th installment in the series), just to annoy us plebs year in year out. But the music’s great (this year ball’s stars including the virtuoso Italian direttore Massimo Zanetti, breathtaking Georgian soprano Nino Machaidze, famous Spanish Verdi and Puccini enthusiast and tenor José Carreras, and many others), making the “2,500 guests dancing in the finest gowns …

  06.02.2019

• "Patient Sapiens: a Guide to Herbs and Pills": Journalist Andrei Vodovozov on Medicine, Cannabis and Puppies

  …epression, i.e. a drug that has to work as an antidepressant prevents a person from relaxing. Still, you can find many research on the benefits of marijuana on the Internet. For one, it is said to help with the Tourette syndrome. Nevertheless, a keen reader will notice many understatements. For instance, in particular studies, patients who started to feel bad …

  06.02.2019

• ITMO VK Competition for School Students

  … each subject, but you can pick as many disciplines as you like. What makes this competition so convenient is that all the communication is carried out via the VK social media network. The second round lasts for six hours, but you can only spend two hours on one discipline. Another perk is that you can also apply for a travel grant that will cover the transfer…

  06.02.2019

• Falcon Heavy Launch, Cancer Treatment, and Neutrinos: Top Science News of 2018

  …Alexander Khokhlov, a space instrumentation engineer at the Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, the President of the Youth Section of the North-West division of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation One of the major highlights of the last year was the Falcon Heavy launch, which took place almost a year ago, on February 6, 2018. Th…

  05.02.2019

• Different Volunteering, Eco Camps and Fresh Perspective on Things: Belgian Gloria Sagaradze on Interning at ITMO

  …volunteering initiatives centered in Brussels. It’s an interesting and unique experience shared by many other Western European countries: the problems societies in France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany face are pretty much similar. Have you ever dealt with environmental issues before? I’m not a huge specialist in ecology, I know only so much because ever…

  05.02.2019

• Webometrics-2018: ITMO University in Top-5 Russian Universities

  … Presence, which is based on the number of Google-indexed web pages hosted on the university’s main web domain; Openness, which is based on the number of citations in academic networks; Excellence, which represents the university’s citation rate based on SCImagoLab data; and, finally, Visibility, which makes up 50% of the total score and indicates the number of links…

  04.02.2019

• Shadow Samurai: Motion Capture Game by ITMO Developers

  … it’s capable of monitoring a patient’s fine motor skills when performing various recovery exercises, as well as of tracking the development of a prosthetic appliance’s neural network. Andrey Karsakov agrees that as of now, VR is more relevant to large industry players that regular consumers. “Even at CES, it was clear that the near-future of VR lies not …

  01.02.2019

• Free Online Courses to Help You Keep New Year’s Resolutions

  …tive by changing your daily routines. Learn to Speak: Conversational French (2 hours 22 minutes). Of course, you can’t learn a language by simply watching videos on the internet, but these can be a useful tool if combined with other learning methods. On Skillshare, you can also learn Chinese, Spanish and Russian, but what makes this particular course so valuable is…

  31.01.2019

• SCAMT Achievement Award Winners on Genetic Engineering and Doing Research as a Master’s Student

  …t out of interest. When I applied to the TPU, I wasn’t really counting on enrolling there, so I picked a major that seemed interesting: biotechnologies. Their brochure about genetic engineering was very nice. Later, as the deadline neared for when I had to choose where to go, I realized that I wanted to study somewhere nice and prestigious. That was the TPU. And that…

  31.01.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 2-3

  …Eurasian elk, and the extraordinary Siberian salamander... Want to learn more about this country’s incredible wildlife and discover the most dazzling natural wonders on the planet? Visit the annual ‘Russian Wildlife’ photo exhibition organized by the National Geographic magazine at the Etagi creative space, which will run from February 1 to March 31. The exhibition i…

  30.01.2019