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• On the Origin of Memes: Meme Scientist Explains Post-Irony and Future of Internet Culture

  …976 book The Selfish Gene proposed a basic unit of cultural transmission: a meme. A meme to memetics is what a gene is to genetics. Both evolve and propagate according to the laws of natural selection. Any idea, symbol, expression or action can become a meme. Dawkins’s examples of memes included idioms, types of arched bridges and even stew recipes. Throughout the…

  13.12.2018

• ITMO Students Score Second and Third in Robotex Competition

  …mance. They first came out with two drones: one in their hands, and another one on a fishing pole, which made us giggle. But then their robot made ten perfect circles and our jaws dropped,” recalls Valeriy Chernov. According to the students, the drone’s control algorithm developed by RED’s team member Konstantin Pachkovskiy is much more flexible than the one mad…

  11.12.2018

• Movie Fridays: New Releases

• VK Hackathon 2018 Winners Make Donating Blood Easier

  …ago, and forgotten to change it in the social network. Grigoriy Frantsuzov: The second tab is a map which shows all blood donation centers in the user’s location. The app draws on users’ geolocation data and displays all the stations available in the DonorSearch database for this specific city or town. It’s important to note that the map only displays the centers …

  23.11.2018

• New York University Professor’s Take on Future of Digital Cities

  …velop a comprehensive legal framework that will cover all the cases, so the case-based model stands out as the most sensible solution to this problem. The reality is that the laws on using data for advancing the development of cities are influenced by the policies of big corporations; the legislators’ only role is to catch up. The companies reject or approve of certa…

  13.11.2018

• Scientists Developed New Contactless Method of Measuring Blood Flow in Hands

  …vessels and affects the speed of the blood flow. This allows assessing the vascular resistance regulation by the nervous system and other control mechanisms. Such regulation flaws are observed in a number of diseases accompanied by damage to nerves and blood vessels. “Our ultimate goal is the creation of a convenient medical device for assessing blood flow i…

  29.10.2018

• 15 Popular Science Cartoons on Anything and Everything

  …If you’ve ever read Perelman’s Physics for Entertainment, you’ll definitely like this short! Masters of Lightning Masters of Lightning speaks about electricity, the laws of thermodynamics, and power industry. This is the first cartoon from the Tales about Professions series (1985-87) directed by Boris Akulinichev. Though the piece itself is aimed at childre…

  26.10.2018

• Fabio Biffi, Head of Bicasa SRL, on Flexible Lab Design and Equipment of Tomorrow

  … Using this methodology, the staff at Bicasa work with five categories of requirements and spaces. The first is mandatory requirements, i.e. the ones that are included in the laws and regulations of a particular country. This level usually concerns safety, temperature, and humidity, as well as lighting. Specialists analyze each space’s qualities, taking into account …

  19.10.2018

• Faculty of Physics and Engineering Staff to Republish Legendary Soviet Physicist’s Works

  …‘The Unusual Laws of Refraction and Reflection’ narrates its story in the form of a lively dialog between the physicist father and his high-schooler son. The explanatory monologs are punctuated with to-the-point remarks and comparisons with physics theory from the school curricula. The narrator often draws analogies between the theory a…

  15.10.2018

• How to Write a Thesis on Marvel Comic Books: PhD Student Daniil Shirokov Explains

  …d disabled protagonists.  Homosexual superheroes didn’t emerge completely out of left field, but nonetheless were ahead of the time: back then, many American states still had laws prohibiting same-sex relationships. What was the most interesting aspect in your work? Compiling the data. It’s hard to believe this, but Marvel doesn’t have a universal database that…

  12.10.2018