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• At Peace With My Bacteria: How to Achieve a Truly Healthy Lifestyle

  …, while when you exercise moderately but regularly, your body gets energy from fats instead of carbohydrates, leading to weight loss. Exercises strengthen your muscles. Muscle mass needs more energy than fat mass, therefore the more muscular you are, the easier it is to expend the energy you’re taking on board. So don’t think of exercis…

  11.04.2018

• Portfolio Contest Open for New Master's Programs in Photonics at ITMO

• Master’s Exchange Students on Learning Lighting Design in Copenhagen

  …prove the residents’ well-being? Can light help school children attend classes with more enthusiasm and learn the material better? These are the questions that students of the Master’s program in Lighting Design at Aalborg University try to answer. According to PLDR Awards 2017, this is the best educational program in lighting design in all of Europe. Aalborg …

  11.04.2018

• More than ESP: Teaching English with Digital and Print Content

  …st how fundamental technology has become to our lives, Duncan Christelow suggested looking at English learning materials from several points of view: that of Bloom’s taxonomy, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the current research of needs among teachers and professors. Bloom’s taxonomy In the 1950s, Benjamin Bloom, an education professor at the University of…

  10.04.2018

• St. Petersburg Off the Beaten Track

  …-8 3. Visit One of the Most Beautiful Railway Stations in the World A gem for architecture lovers, Vitebsky railway station is the oldest railway station in Russia and a masterpiece of Art Nouveau architecture. Upon entering this building you can't help but immerse yourself in the atmosphere of early 20th century. Take a seat on a bench, look around and feel th…

  10.04.2018

• Startups Present Eye-Treatment Neural Network, Physical Therapy Globe at FT Startup Drive

  …, using neural networks. Ophthalmologists can input patients’ data to have the program calculate how myopia will develop in each patient. The neural network was trained with a massive amount of data gathered from patients with myopia. By identifying patterns in new cases, the system will suggest diagnoses and future defect growth. Why is this important? First …

  09.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …to power fuel-cell cars, or the radioactive tritium (a heavy form of hydrogen) that forms inside the cores of nuclear power plants. Is that milk still good? Scientists at McMaster developed a transparent test patch, printed with harmless molecules that can signal contamination as it happens. The patch can be incorporated directly into food packaging, where it can …

  08.04.2018

• GameDev Specialists and Practice-Oriented Education

  …s the processes around it” ­ - commented Andrey Karsakov. So what should we do? It’s simple! Education in these fields should be more practice oriented. During the Master’s Degree Program, students of the High-Performance Computing Department have an opportunity to join a research team that work on real development projects. During the first semester o…

  06.04.2018

• VR/AR Association & ITMO University Spring Kickoff: Trends and Philosophy of Virtual Reality

  …ecoming more widespread. The result is that there is less discussion in the media, but more real-life applications. There is significant growth in the market, mostly thanks to massive investments (the well-known startup Magic Leap, for instance, has raised $2 billion in investments). Nearly 55% of VR/AR apps today are made with specific industries in mind; another 20…

  05.04.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 7-8

  …, Giorgio de Chirico, and others. Meanwhile, the ART-BANK exhibition space will host Magic of the Carnival (Nevsky 62, ends on April 29), an exhibition of 57 Venetian carnival masks, made by hands of Venetian craftsmen. And if you’re more interested in learning about Russian art, the Erarta Museum will host Hopeless Painters (29th Liniya V.O., 2, ends on April 14)…

  04.04.2018