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• The Joys of Spring, As Told By The Vitamin D-Deficient

  …om, be it new projects, friendships or romance. It’s about fresh air in my bedroom and new ideas. And of course, it’s the anticipation of summer, which is now just around the corner. Vadim G. On close inspection, spring isn't all that great. It's muddy, humid, and it straddles the weird line between "too hot for winter clothes" and "too windy to be warm". And yet…

  02.04.2019

• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  … In the 1930s, there were over 30 phrenology societies in Europe, with over 1,000 members. And many of them were people of different professions: doctors, psychiatrists and attorneys. Much as in case of dermatoglyphics, phrenology doesn’t feature any real assessment of its method’s prognostic value. None of the researchers ever conducted statistical analysis. …

  27.03.2019

• Anecdotes: Telling Jokes the Russian Way

• Programmer Kirill Yashchuk on How to Survive Seven Surgeries, Not Give Up and Launch Your Own Project

  … projects and understand the whole process from behind the scenes: how teams work, who the customers are, and why it is important to talk to people instead of sitting in your corner all the time beavering at your project and giving some sort of a result once a month. The four years after I graduated I worked at different companies, specializing in Java, backend an…

  18.03.2019

• Evolutionary Biologist David Seaborg: Science Enriches Our Lives with Fantastic Ideas and Discoveries

  … set the record for saving the most species per dollar of donation money in the history of any environmental organization. We are also working on saving the rainforests of Borneo by supporting the Borneo Project. We helped fund the making of beautiful, enlightening three-minute videos about the huge dams that destroy large areas of r…

  04.03.2019

• The Radio-Astronomical Triangle of Russia’s Institute of Applied Astronomy’s Quasar-KVO Complex

  …ng independently) modes. Why did the IAA RAS’s research call for not one, but three radio telescopes to be created? This giant triangle with the three observatories at its corners is connected into a single monitoring network with satellite communication channels as its links. Thus, the Quasar VLBI (very long baseline interferometry) network serves as one global r…

  28.02.2019

• Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI

  …agricultural startup OneSoil that makes use of Big Data and machine learning methods to develop applications and an online platform for precision agriculture. They analyze airborne imagery and identify what grows on various fields based on data from the already examined ones. For instance, they’ve learned that there is a region in Estonia bordering the Leningrad Obla…

  27.02.2019

• Head of Greenhouse of Social Technologies on Making the Best of AI

  …agricultural startup OneSoil that makes use of Big Data and machine learning methods to develop applications and an online platform for precision agriculture. They analyze airborne imagery and identify what grows on various fields based on data from the already examined ones. For instance, they’ve learned that there is a region in Estonia bordering the Leningrad Obla…

  27.02.2019

• Grouchy Introvert's Valentine's Day Manifesto

  …t kind of New Age gibberish is that? I’m already too millennial for my liking, what with my almond milk, penchant for avocado on toast and gazillion tote bags occupying every corner of my humble abode, which also boasts an en-vogue plant and a slick, minimalist poster with a motivational quote written in that fake-cursive font we’re all sick of. And I understood ever…

  14.02.2019

• Biggest Anthropology Breakthroughs of 2018

  …in general, to the Middle East emerged about 44-56,000 years ago. This marked the grand opening of this ecological corridor. Oldest art in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh, Borneo, 15,700-51,800 years ago In the very heart of Indonesia lies the oldest sapiens art known to humankind. These are not just dots, but imprints of hands, depictions of people, and others…

  22.01.2019