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• Ten Life-Changing Technologies of 2019. Part 2

  …corded in sequence in multiple identical “ledgers” stored on computers in multiple locations. Thus, there is no use tampering with any one ledger and a highly trusted record of transactions is created. IBM Food Trust, a blockchain-based platform created for the food industry is already employed by massive food sellers.  By integrating producers, distributors and r…

  07.01.2020

• Ten Life-Changing Technologies of 2019. Part 1

  …forms. The recyclable options available today are typically made from corn, sugarcane or used oils and fats and cannot boast mechanical endurance. The recent advances in plastic production enable us to create plastic from cellulose and lignin (the dry matter in plants), which will eliminate this particular disadvantage. On top of that, these components can be extract…

  06.01.2020

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

  … genetic code. A perfect pick if you’d like to start the year with learning about and rediscovering the fundamental truths about your body. The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail – but Some Don't, by Nate Silver Nate Silver’s 2012 bestseller concerns itself with predictions and probabilities of all sorts of events: ea…

  03.01.2020

• Soviet Movies For the Winter Holidays

  …t maybe true love.  Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession (Or Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future) Freaky Friday meets Back to the Future as a result of a time-machine malfunction in this, again, 70s-based holiday classic. Shurik, an engineer, is working on a time-machine in his apartment when he accidentally sends the superintendent of his building, Ivan Va…

  03.01.2020

• Ready Player One: Games We Play Over the Holidays

  …ake the characters more real). It makes me feel as if I am actually in the story, helping Nancy with her sleuthing duties.  Player Three: arisuai I am actually an avid fanfiction reader, so I came across what later became my favorite game of all time on a fanfiction forum. I originally followed one author because of their stor…

  02.01.2020

• Our New Year’s Resolutions for 2020

  …cific or realistic enough. Or maybe I’m just not a resolutions kind of person, I dunno. I do like the idea of setting goals for myself though, as this kinda forms a nice sense of direction. So this year I decided to write down a detailed list of things that I really want to invest in and that are truly mine. For example, I would like to learn to make smarter choices …

  01.01.2020

• What is Your Word for 2019?

  …erimental and be the first to offer something new, then scale the results."  Anton Gopka, Dean of the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations "Let it be “human action.” Must it truly be a single word?"  Evgenii Raskin, head of ITMO University's Youth Policy Office "For me, that word is “digitization” because we have digitized a huge am…

  31.12.2019

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

  …otechnology. 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 introduced into living cells. This would make it poss…

  30.12.2019

• Song of the Month: December 2019

  …are about all-time favorites, which is also the premise behind Old Songs About The Important, a musical-style program that played on TV on New Year’s Eve of 1995. Taking place in a fictional musical village, it brings together all the pop and rock stars of the time singing the songs that most Russians know by heart. In the middle of the turbulent ‘90s, it was heartwa…

  27.12.2019

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

  …ure and Civil Engineering (SPbGASU) and the IBI, over the course of two days, ITMO University students brainstormed the topic of which innovations can be introduced during the construction process of the ITMO Highpark campus.  New materials All the students worked in one team, however, each group was responsible for one particular area: for example, some studen…

  27.12.2019