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• How Can We Affect the Evolution Theory Today?

  …ute to the evolution. For instance, when vaccines were invented, lots of diseases stopped being fatal. According to Meredith Small, anthropologist and associate professor at Cornell University, today people are not seized by smallpox — they don’t die but instead stay alive, and contribute to the gene bank by having children. Another important peculiarity of the mode…

  24.11.2016

• Study in the Country of Icecream Palaces and Borsch

  …l the mini assessments, you have a lot of ways to get a good grade." What’s both great and unusual about living in Russia though, explained Nicolas, is that on each street corner, you’ll find old women selling their goods. "It's really interesting", he says, "you don’t know where it comes from but here it is, sometimes I buy things from them, I bought onions recen…

  14.11.2016

• The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics: Topological Phases of Matter over the Experimental Discovery of Gravitational Waves

  … noises. Still, among the vast numbers of the project's participants three were chosen as Nobel Prize nominees: MIT’s professor Rainer Weiss, physicist Ronald Drever and Kip Thorne — an expert in general relativity theory (he was the consultant for the Interstellar movie). All three of them are among founders of the LIGO collaboration. «In essence, the Nobel Pri…

  04.10.2016

• Tinkoff Bank Founds a Special Scholarship for Two-times World Champion in Programming

  …Transas“. Thanks to that, three of world's champions in programming — Pavel Mavrin, Maxim Buzdalov and Artem Vasilyev, as well as prize-winners of world championships Georgiy Korneev and Andrei Stankevich work at the Computer Technology Department. All this help lets students and lecturers from the department attain world-level results. We are really glad that the am…

  27.09.2016

• The Shock of the New — Latest Developments in St. Petersburg Theater Part 2

  …as an extraordinarily impressive piece of theater, made more remarkable by the fact that these astonishing shows were seen only by a couple of hundred devotees in a windswept corner of a St. Petersburg Park. To top it all, AKHE are ridiculously prolific. In the past year, they have also staged Cabinet of Curiosities, also on Yelagin, and Pene Dna or Froth on the D…

  09.09.2016

• Bringing the Aquabus Back: St. Petersburg Water Taxi Can Be in Demand Aain

  …rsburg isn’t as short as many believe – it lasts from the middle of spring till the middle of autumn, which is almost half a year. If we refer to the experience of using waterborne public transport in such cities as London, Hamburg and Amsterdam, we’ll see that such trips can be cheap or even free, and are in demand. Using a proper approach, we’ll be able to achieve …

  23.08.2016

• The International Olympiad in Informatics – Russian High Schoolers Score Big

  …or the competition. Amongst the authors were also ITMO's graduates Artem Vasilyev, Nyaz Nigmatullin, Vitaly Aksenov and senior student Ilya Zban. ITMO's staff members Georgiy Korneev, Nikolai Vedernikov, Lidia Perovskaya and graduate Sergeiy Melnikov helped  in technical organization.  More information about IOI can be found here and here. …

  19.08.2016

• Airborne Troops Day

  …cadets and troopers, and, obviously, a concert where theme-based songs, like the songs about the Afghan War, will be played. An exhibition of equipage and armaments of the Airborne Troops will be also functioning during the festival. There is also an informal tradition to this festival – the bathing of troopers in many of St. Petersburg’s fountains. The city autho…

  02.08.2016

• Crowd Math: Researchers from St. Petersburg, Amsterdam and Bangalore Made the World's Largest Social Experiment

  … “Over the course of the month, we became acquainted with various languages, cultures and beliefs of the pilgrims travelling to the shores of Shipra river from different corners of the world. To repeat a similar experience outside of the festival, we would have to travel across the whole of India. We want to look beyond the data and consider in more detail, what…

  12.07.2016

• Good News for Coders: Google and Facebook are Hiring

  …o has won tons of programming competitions you have to be able to work with others, which is often difficult for young people in our field. Many of them would rather sit in a corner by themselves and try to tackle a problem over and over again instead of seeking help. Facebook doesn't work like that. You've got communicate with your colleagues to solve tasks faster a…

  05.07.2016