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• Holidaying with Robots: Quirky New Year Gadgets

• Popularization Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Fighting Pseudoscience with Science-Pop

  … action plan in the field of science popularization. Also in the pipeline is formalizing the compositions of the RAS Committees on Science Popularization and Pseudoscience Control. Additionally, the RAS intends to put in place a program for developing its science-pop magazines (in which the Academy will enlist the help of the leading Russian science popularizers and …

  29.12.2018

• Movie Fridays: Festive Edition

  …at times, it’s still very funny, warm, entertaining, stylishly made, and totally bewitching. Isn’t this enough to make a perfect Christmas movie? Disney’s A Christmas Carol Eerie, mystic, amusing, and exquisitely crafted, Robert Zemeckis’ 3D computer animated motion-capture fantasy A Christmas Carol is referred to by many crit…

  28.12.2018

• Business Games, or How to Pass Exams Without Taking Exams and Get a Job Without an Interview

  …s competing for the right to pass a course exam without having to take it, as well as to demonstrate their talents and skills to potential employers. Participants took on a role of a top management team hired by the Arkhangelsk Pulp & Paper Mill (APPM) to brainstorm new areas for the company to develop in. As per the assigned case’s conditions, the enterprise owne…

  28.12.2018

• New Year’s Resolutions and How to Keep Them

  …ending 15 minutes after watching TV on a language app or doing exercises from a student book. Studying for 15 minutes every day is a lot more beneficial than your promise to enroll in a cool English course taught by native speakers. If your English level is high enough, watch TV series in the original language or watch a couple of TED videos on the metro. After a …

  27.12.2018

• Scientists Create First Topological Nanostructures Which Make Infrared Light Visible

  …al signal over long distances can make computation and communication systems more efficient. Theoretically, nonlinear devices for light direction, intensity and wavelength control have been described several years ago. However, so far, researchers haven’t managed to realize such topological structures at the nanoscale. A group of scientists from Russia represented…

  27.12.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 29-31

• HAKORA: Building a Business in the Field of AR

  … exists on paper. Today, everyone prefers to make their choices based on visual content, so the presentation has minimum text. In the end, we'll have a robot who will play the role of a virtual sales manager. It will introduce the organization to the clients, show them the vehicle park and tell them about the CRM system and the GPS trackers that the company uses. For…

  26.12.2018

• Christmas Is All Around Us

  …mong my personal favorites are Richard Curtis’s charming romantic comedy Love Actually, Sharon Maguire’s hit Bridget Jones’s Diary, Robert Zemeckis’ dark fantasy A Christmas Carol, and The Polar Express. I watch these films each and every year, starting in the middle of December, and they never fail to amaze me! 5. Christmas Goodies Just think about spicy star-…

  25.12.2018

• ITMO University Awards Its First Academic Degrees

  …sburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences The commonly accepted practice of having the Supreme Certification Commission as a controlling body is familiar and understandable, and we are yet to tell what the new initiative will lead to. I already get the feeling that there's a sort of a competition between the traditional …

  25.12.2018