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• “It’s Your Call!” Winter School Launched at ITMO University

  …rogramming and IT”, and “Data- and Cybersecurity”. Program Participants of “It’s Your Call!” will get to participate in keynote lectures, do project work, and visit entertainment events (including networking meet-ups and visits to the ice skating rink at New Holland and to the Planetarium 1). At the keynote lectures, the students will learn about interdisciplin…

  19.02.2019

• Brussels, Prague and Rio de Janeiro: Exchange Students Share Their Experiences

  …e we shared information about events in Rio de Janeiro and found friends with common interests. For example, I joined a hiking group and spent my free time trekking in the mountains with other students. Brazilians are very open and there are no half-measures to their behavior: they either love or they hate. Their perception of time is different, too: they’re l…

  19.02.2019

• Ex-Executive Director of Nobel Foundation Michael Sohlman: How to Win the Nobel Prize

  …ee awarded the Peace Prize to Carl von Ossietzky, a German journalist who had exposed Nazi Germany’s clandestine re-armament efforts. At the time, Ossietzky had already been detained for two years at the Esterwegen concentration camp. After this, a government decree forbade German citizens from accepting future Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Foundation’s experts do r…

  18.02.2019

• Project by ITMO Robotics Team Named Best at Baltic Science and Engineering Competition

  …candidates to be awarded main prizes of the competition. The participants’ task here is to defend their invention and, in an open dialog with the judges, prove that it does pertain to scientific discovery, offers new methods of solving a specific problem, and has practical significance. In this way, contestants learn to build their scientific and business career. …

  15.02.2019

• Dmitri Mendeleev: Everything You Need to Know About the Inventor of Periodic Table

  …er vodka and hard liquors. To do that, they needed an alcoholometric scale, and Mendeleev’s task was to come up with one. The main difficulty was that it is impossible to obtain absolute alcohol by simple fractional distillation, because a mixture containing around 96% alcohol and 4% water becomes a constant boiling mixture. But Mend…

  14.02.2019

• The Neuroscience of Love

  …n is restructured so as to make sure that he doesn’t fall in love with anyone else. The nucleus accumbens is the same area of the brain that is responsible for addiction to certain drugs, which is why love is often compared to a drug-induced trance. Non-monogamous mice have an increased number of D1 receptors from the get-go and they don’t need to grow new ones, whic…

  14.02.2019

• Green Building: Putting Sustainable Development Into Practice

  …Sustainable development and eco-construction are interconnected. Green standards are needed for constructing buildings that are more eco-friendly. While ten years ago eco-construction in Russia was something that was laughed about, now there is a multi-professional community strongly driven by the green building cause. Also known as green building, eco-constructio…

  13.02.2019

• Romantic St. Petersburg

  …rent perspective on eating – and life. The full-course menu, developed by a top chef, is served in four variations: meat, seafood, vegetarian, or “chef’s surprise”. This is certainly a meal to remember – even if you’ll never see it with your own eyes. Repina Street Whenever you find yourself in the eastern part of Vasilievsky Island, take a half-hour to walk th…

  12.02.2019

• Date Like a Russian

  …55. In most cases, a sincere compliment is welcomed and appreciated. To Russian women skinny oftentimes means beautiful. They go to incredible means to achieve and maintain a low weight and are oftentimes convinced that it influences how attractive they are. I don’t have enough empirical evidence to say to support or deny that, but my guess is that guys do pa…

  11.02.2019

• Breathing-Checker Belt and Smart Trousers: ITMO Students Explore Health Devices at Tallinn University Winter School

  …y people often do exercises in the wrong way, and many suffer from knee pain. Our device aims to help people do sit-ups right. We made a lot of changes into our idea, and obtained first results as quickly as on the first day. We also did a lot of research into how people could use our smart trousers in the most effective way possible, and how to allow for the most…

  08.02.2019