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• Brussels, Prague and Rio de Janeiro: Exchange Students Share Their Experiences

  … people walk around near-nude and covered in feathers and glitter is perfectly normal in that season. Pre-carnival parties happen once a week in January, and by the time March rolls around, there’s one every day. Carnival crowds move from one place to another, and if you’re not there at the start, you’ll also have to figure out where to catch up to them. The s…

  19.02.2019

• Ex-Executive Director of Nobel Foundation Michael Sohlman: How to Win the Nobel Prize

  …have to write, discover or create something that has never been done before. Many insights can be found in the biographies of previous Nobel Laureate. Education plays a key role: Herbert A. Simon, who won the Nobel Prize “for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations”, once did some interesting research on this topic. A…

  18.02.2019

• Movie Fridays: Disconnect… The Person You’re Trying to Reach is Currently Unavailable

• Project by ITMO Robotics Team Named Best at Baltic Science and Engineering Competition

  …Claiming the main prize in the robotics category this year were the trainees from the Creative Robotics Laboratory of ITMO University’s School of Computer Technologies and Control, eleven-graders at the Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum №239 Vasily Dunaev and Dmitry Kharlapenko. The Creative Robotics Laboratory project is co-organized by ITMO with the Presi…

  15.02.2019

• Dmitri Mendeleev: Everything You Need to Know About the Inventor of Periodic Table

  …s public officials up to the civic governor. In what way were they different from the people Mendeleev would then get acquainted with in St. Petersburg, like Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov and others? The latter were the intellectuals who belonged to different social classes. They didn’t like the environment around them and wanted to change it, while the Decembrists were…

  14.02.2019

• The Neuroscience of Love

  …f homosexuality being a trait determined by genetics. What happens after sex? Before sex, the situation is quite similar for any gender: the limbic system, which controls emotions, is activated along with the areas responsible for tactile sense. After an orgasm, however, the processes in men and women’s brains differ. In men, the activity rate of the amygda…

  14.02.2019

• Green Building: Putting Sustainable Development Into Practice

  …inable means of transport, with public transport and alternative transport solutions being the best, and cars the worst, options on the list. The fifth is water, namely control of consumption of potable water and water used for housekeeping needs. The rational consumption thread continues with the sixth category, materials. This one weighs up where construction ma…

  13.02.2019

• Just Ask: How Does New Cancer Consultation Service Work

  …ng that patients get help from professionals of evidence-based healthcare with a high level of expertise. The experts don’t make a diagnosis or prescribe medications, their role is to share information that would enable patients to make the right decision. “The service aims to help anyone concerned find their way around searching for effective diagnosis and t…

  11.02.2019

• ITMO Open Science at Erarta: From MegaBattle to Open Talk

  …er the last year and talked about their departments’ science development strategies. Among the speakers were Alexey Bobtsov, Head of School of Computer Technologies and Control, Alexander Boukhanovsky, Head of School of Translational Information Technologies, Igor Baranov, Head of School of Biotechnology and Cryogenic Systems, Vladislav Bougrov, Head of School of …

  11.02.2019

• Date Like a Russian

  …the serving utensils in an effort to put some on my plate. In his world, that was an attempt to “poukhazhivat” - as in, display his chivalry. In my world, it meant “he’s a control freak and wants to decide how much I should eat.” He was trying to be nice, and I had to stop myself from stopping him. What should you expect when it comes to dating and relationships …

  11.02.2019