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• Moving Forward: St. Petersburg in 2020

  … changes to the ticket prices for most of St. Petersburg’s public transportation. That includes a new 55-ruble rate for metro tokens and a 50-ruble rate for buses, trams, and trolleybuses. The good news for owners of multi-use passes like Podorozhnik is that they can still enjoy cumulative discounts on their rides: from 38/33 rubles for their first 10 rides (metro…

  07.01.2020

• Ten Life-Changing Technologies of 2019. Part 2

  …ve telepresence is still very much an emerging technology, all the pieces are in place for it to become transformative within three to five years. 7. Public health: Controlled food packaging could save lives  Abstract: Combining food tracking and packaging could improve food safety By Rona Chandrawati and Bernard S. Meyerson  According to the WHO, aro…

  07.01.2020

• Travel the Trans-Siberian Railway Like a Russian

  …of “buloCHnaya” and get around by metro that’s an architectural wonder. Yaroslavl, 280 km. This ancient town has churches dating back to the 17th century. You might hear a prolonged letter “o” when people speak, and if you’re lucky, enjoy traditional horn music. Perm, 1,438 km. Originally settled during the Stone Age, this city in the Urals became famous for mi…

  06.01.2020

• Ten Life-Changing Technologies of 2019. Part 1

  …ing eye-contact; supporting a conversation and adapting to people’s needs using feedback, awards and criticisms.  Consequently, robots play a more and more diverse range of roles. A 47-inch humanoid robot called Pepper (SoftBank Robotics) can recognize faces and basic human emotions and engage in conversations with the help of a touch screen located in his “chest”…

  06.01.2020

• New Year’s Done Right: Brainy Books and Movies to Check Out This Holiday Season

  …the color white with cleanliness and others – with death; why some countries depict jealousy with green and others with red. You’ll learn about the psychology of color and its role in how every business – from tiny coffeeshops to the world’s biggest apps – markets itself. Films History of the World in 2 Hours, 2011 This highly-rated BBC documentary cover…

  03.01.2020

• Ready Player One: Games We Play Over the Holidays

• What is Your Word for 2019?

  … of technological growth. It’s up to us to envision and build the university model of the future." Alexey Bobtsov, director of the School of Computer Technologies and Control "This is an interesting and challenging question. You can come up with answers right off, almost intuitively, but then they might not be correct. Or you can take your time thinking abo…

  31.12.2019

• Quantum Computers, Time Crystals, and Artificial Cells: 2019 in Science

  …and Educational Center of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Creating complex chemical systems that can be synchronized in space and time will allow us to predict and control natural systems with amplified cascades and self-reproduction under experimental conditions.  Those experimentally constructed and mathematically predicted chemical blocks could then be …

  30.12.2019

• Song of the Month: December 2019

  …Catherine  Unsurprisingly (if we consider the weather), December felt a lot like winter for me in the beginning than it does now. I remember strolling to early morning lectures on the first Monday of the month, alternating between The 12 Days of Christmas and The Nutcracker in my headphones – what an actual winter wonderland it was!  Many things have happened s…

  27.12.2019

• Micro-Mobility, Fiber Concrete, Nanomaterials: Students Propose Innovations for ITMO Highpark Campus

  … costs. “Among the innovative solutions proposed was using the aerated ceramic technology developed at SPbGASU’s Department of Technology of Building Materials and Metrology. This involves light heat- and sound-insulating non-combustible plates and blocks with simultaneously high-strength properties. In order to ensure compliance with fire safety requirement…

  27.12.2019