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Vacations, Business Trips and Mushroom-Picking
…from this series, and I suppose that’s what I’ll be reading on my next vacation. Is there some kind of summer activity you haven’t tried yet, but would like to? I really want to hike 200 kilometers on foot. In Spain and Israel, they’ve got all the conditions for that. You walk throughout the day and sleep at rest spots. On the one hand, it’s great physical acti…
13.07.2018
Urban Scientist Steve Kuddins on Overfencing in St. Petersburg: Causes and Solutions
…he city officials will have formal grounds to do something. Everything begins with us, the civic society, though it has recently been focusing on the Internet only and doesn't want to change that. What are the services that one can use to attain the desired results? The simplest service by Beautiful St. Petersburg uses a script, so most city committees bloc…
13.07.2018
TEDxSZIU: Experts Share Their Vision of the Future
…rsburg and around the country. Ivan Filippov believes that this story is highly indicative of the opportunities that St. Petersburg gives its citizens and just everyone who wants to fulfill their potential here. As another example, he gave modern indications that the city can already take pride in. "I strongly believe that St. Petersburg is amongst the world'…
12.07.2018
From Tour de France to the World Cup: Cryosaunas Developed at ITMO University
…ice. “Our task is now to make a reliable and accessible equipment, as well as to attract the public attention to the opportunities cryotherapy offers. Apart from that, we want social institutions, like care homes for elderly people to start using our devices. We had a patient who was 95, and she responded very well to our treatment,” shares Alexander Baranov. …
12.07.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 14-15
Campus Festival: How Studying Emotions Helps Urban Developers
… and districts as they are defined officially. What is that about? This research is still in process, so for now, we can only share provisional results. In this project, we wanted to combine the analysis of data from social networks with field sociology. In order to define the key clusters of St. Petersburg, we derived data from VK. The data we got is not good eno…
11.07.2018
‘New Wallet’ Founder Mikhail Leontiev: ‘My Ultimate Goal is to Make People Associate Russia with Business’
…ciences; moreover, our school specialized in teaching Maths and Physics. Friends and family helped us with their advice, too, as we were just 17 and had little idea of what we wanted to do career-wise. We applied for several universities and got into ITMO in the end. We’d been studying thermophysics first, but then after 2,5 years we got bored of it and decided to…
11.07.2018
Travel Tips: Incomplete and Subjective Guide to Summer in Tallinn
…e Fat Margaret Tower and Great Coastal Gate, the biggest tower in Europe with walls 5 meters thick that in the Middle Ages successfully protected Tallinn from the invaders who wanted to capture the city's gold. From May until September, you can also take the stairs to the rooftop for a postcard view of the Tallinn harbor and Old Town. After the Fat Margaret, y…
10.07.2018
M-Cube Project: Solution for Faster and Safer MRI
…ultra-high field, the regular coils are not optimal, and therefore benefit only partially from the signal improvement provided by the higher magnetic strength. The researchers want to make coils more efficient. “The purpose of the project is to improve the quality of images, as well as reduce the time needed for the diagnostics. Today, to make images more homoge…
10.07.2018
Enjoy Summer Like a Russian
…t and is laying star-fish style in their bikini. One of the most famous places for getting tanned is the “beach” by Peter and Paul’s Fortress. Flaunt your Speedos Always wanted to show off your Olympic-style swimwear? Russian beaches will welcome you with scores of enthusiasts just like you. It seems like the concept of board shorts is foreign here. In fact, th…
09.07.2018