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• Ancient Art & Science, or What Killed the Medusa

  …und in the second Harry Potter book, in which he confronts a basilisk, a creature that also kills the living with its gaze. In the book, those who looked into its eyes through a reflection or a camera lens didn’t die, but becamet petrified. Ancient optics and construction The ancient Greeks’ idea of visual rays has been reflec…

  02.11.2020

• ITMO University’s Alumni Entrepreneur Club

  …s an entrepreneurial university, and we actively support this culture. In my opinion, this is the continuity of generations – students and graduates can already make some useful connections and learn from each other. Moreover, graduates can gain access to new ideas. This is the main benefit that we offer,” adds Lyudmila Tsoi. Networking bingo The first ev…

  02.11.2020

• Painted Mammoths and Honey: the Rescued Wonders of Bashkortostan

  …outhern Ural, a relatively calm area that won’t surprise you with any extremes like permafrost or northern lights. Currently, it is a developed industrial region, leading in oil extraction and supplying all of Russia with powdered soda (this fact will be handy later). Bashkortostan got its name from the Bashkir ethnic group, which has inhabited this land from the ear…

  02.11.2020

• ITMO University's Award for Achievement in Education

  …he ITMO.EduLeaders competition is intended for ITMO University professors who have successfully implemented original educational projects (new educational tools, new formats of interaction with students, online courses, and so on). The competition is held in ten categories in two main tracks: Professors (for all professors); Junior professors (for those pr…

  30.10.2020

• Bringing a Young Russian Startup to USA Step-by-Step: Advice & Lifehacks from Investor Mikhail Gavrilov

  …n Russia and collect 100,000 rubles in sales, they will arrive at the other side of the pond and say, “Look at me, I am cool”. American investors will only care about the American traction,” says Mikhail. Americans also don't know much about Russian education.That’s why one of the ways to be recognized is to take online courses in American universities.   Acc…

  30.10.2020

• Picture of the Week: An Atomic Force Microscope Celebrates Halloween

  …pation” of the surface with a probe that is located on the end of a long elastic rod – the dark narrow stripe seen in the picture above. The microscope is called atomic because it functions thanks to the force interaction of atoms. The photograph seen above was produced by a camera installed inside the microscope. The yellow backgrou…

  30.10.2020

• Artificial Meat and What It’s All About: 10 Top Questions

  …Contents: What is artificial meat? How is it made? Does its production harm animals? Are there any health benefits? What does it taste like? Could you make a steak with it? Could artificial meat become a substitute for the real thing? What advantages does it have? What are its drawbacks? In what other ways can we replace beef, pork, chicken, a…

  29.10.2020

• Allergist Olga Zhogoleva on Evidence-Based Medicine and Myths

  …in 2007), all these popular double-blind placebo-controlled studies were explained to us as something great, but also very difficult to achieve. The models of doctor-patient interaction differ around the world. In Cambridge, for example, doctors have been studying the science of communicating with patients for years. We’ve studied it for a few weeks in medical bio…

  29.10.2020

• BizCycle Founders Develop Three New Bike Routes in Leningrad Oblast

  …rental services, visit private museums, and so on. However, the creators emphasize that the tourists will be only able to follow some parts of the routes and visit only selected attractions. The Historical route lies between Vyborg and Priozersk. It includes a medieval castle in Vyborg, Korela fortress in Priozersk, as well as military defence lines, abandoned…

  29.10.2020

• ITMO University Expands Its Presence in Times Higher Education Subject Rankings

  …anities, Life sciences, Education, Psychology, and Law.  The ranking’s evaluations are based on the same 13 indicators as used in the global ranking. These are grouped into five sections: Teaching (reputation and quality of staff); Research (volume, income, and reputation); Citations (research influence); International outlook (ratio of international students and …

  28.10.2020