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• The New Kilogram: Reasons Behind Upcoming Measurement Reform

  …on of ampere. Until today, the kelvin was defined as the 1/273.16 of the temperature of the triple point of water. This definition had its own drawbacks, as water always contains impurities in the form of heavy isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen, which affect the triple point value. Metrologists were even forced to create a new standard: the Vienna Standard Mean Ocea…

  24.01.2019

• Moscow Topography of Terror, Geography of Holocaust and Gulag Retrospective: Digital Humanities Projects That Remind of the Horrible Past

  …e player follows the story of a real person and makes choices on their behalf. On each of the game's stages, you have to consider the choices they’d have to make in order to attain particular goals (for instance, to remain a true Stalinist). These choices affect two important "resources": integrity and self-preservation. Every week in 2018, the game's authors publ…

  23.01.2019

• Science Day at ITMO University

  … a new conference organized by ITMO University and aimed at establishing collaboration between different University’s departments. The idea was to make it both simple and entertaining to keep our participants interested. The program committee did their best to select the most interesting projects,” comments Alexey Slobozhanyuk, the head of the conference’s program co…

  23.01.2019

• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Eclecticism

  …ith Neo-Baroque and Neoclassicism was the Gothic Revival, which drew inspiration from the original Gothic style with its soaring spires, decorated vaulted ceilings, and large stained glass windows. One of the most extraordinary examples of the Gothic Revival architectural style in St. Petersburg is the Chesme Church. Designed by the Russian court architect Yury Felte…

  22.01.2019

• Ins and Outs of Modern Animation

  …vision series and feature films. In 2015, Pixar released a free non-commercial use version of the RenderMan engine, which can be downloaded here. Isle of Dogs Maintaining 20 years-old software or mimicking the visual style of comics are, of course, daring tasks. But it is no more challenging than stop-motion animation, which calls for a great amount of m…

  22.01.2019

• Biggest Anthropology Breakthroughs of 2018

  …mixtures. It was also yet again proved that Denisovans themselves had some Neanderthal admixture in them. The second one can even be singled out as more significant, and contains the decoding of the genome of a first-generation offspring of a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father. The DNA that gave rise to the study was extracted from a small chunk of bone and p…

  22.01.2019

• Nanophotonics' Most Topical Fields: Research on Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Structures

  …o, why exactly did you choose to continue your educational and scientific career in Russia? In China, completing your Master's program takes three years. One year goes to obtaining fundamental education. That allowed me to fulfill all of my educational goals, which is exactly why I decided to participate in an exchange program and get some new experience. I looked…

  21.01.2019

• 24-Year Old Millionaire on Cryptocurrency and Personal Development

  …happens not so much in Russia but rather in the Asian region, in such countries as South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore. There are indeed lots of strong projects there. Certainly, they can attempt to enter an exchange by themselves and dish out a million dollars for listing, but they also have the option of enlisting our help and pay three times less as a result.…

  18.01.2019

• Nights in a Library, History Lessons and Stress Relieving Dogs: Academic Exchange at Seoul National University

  … they only let us in one club in Pusan (foreigners are forbidden to enter all others), and asked us not to fight. Inside, we noticed that people tried to avoid us, and they certainly weren't set on welcoming us to join them. This is their way of keeping distance. The tactile culture is also different in Korea. For example, my Korean friend was always touching …

  18.01.2019

• Five Simple DIY Devices

  …nit, a microcontroller, a GoPro camera, batteries, helium Start by filling a special big air balloon with helium, which will expand in the course of the flight. Attach a container with a GoPro camera, a GPS module, and a GPRS transmission unit to the end: they will identify the balloon’s coordinates and send them to you in the form of a text. Add to that a microco…

  17.01.2019