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• Ivan Zasursky: Inaccessible Knowledge Divides Society

  …Publishers, the Science Reporter, the Information Culture and the No Registry supported the idea of the expert. "We aim to make a new social contract for authors. If someone wants to share some information we can offer him or her a platform for saving it. In a couple of years we will be able to edit all the copies so as to update them together with original documen…

  05.12.2016

• Popularizing Science: Director Dmitry Zagilevsky on Shooting Popular Science Films in Russia

  … are scientists ready to cooperate with directors and media representatives? In the Soviet Union, each popular science film had a science advisor. Those were the people who wanted to make science popular. Now this idea is being brought back with the support from such organizations as the "Evolution" foundation, the "Trajectory" foundation for supporting scientific…

  05.12.2016

• The Ultimate Guide to the Russian Banya (Part 2)

  …eg bashed me inelegantly with a venik — it was good fun and relatively restorative and afterwards we drank beer and exchanged some juicy gossip! There was one final Banya I wanted to try — primarily because it’s around the corner from my apartment, and though I pass it every day, had never ventured inside. Ysachevskie bani Once allegedly a house of ill reput…

  02.12.2016

• Startups vs Venture Officials: Why You Should Just Do It Yourself

  …out the challenges of applying for tenders and grants. Contrary to the thoughts of the CEO of the VentureClub in St. Petersburg, Evgeny Turvinenko, Mr. Burak said that "You want all the work done for you, even applying for tenders. There are such possibilities but usually they take 95% of the profits. Welcome to the market, kickbacks, bank guarantees etc. No one w…

  30.11.2016

• Formulas for Making Right Decisions

  … rate. In her research, Ms. Karmanova analyzed what lawbreakers do in order to gain secret information. Having studied their behavior, one can catch them. For example, hackers want to receive information and they already know how to hack all firewalls to gain access to a server with important data. Among other data protecting programs, information security experts ca…

  28.11.2016

• Mind Games: Quests as a Way to Learn and Have Fun at the Same Time

  …xamples from the world of quests, available to anyone in St. Petersburg who has a couple of hours of time and a couple of thousand rubles (per game, not per person). If you want to try — and I hope what to do — then first turn ON your brain, then gather up all your courage and ingenuity and forget about your claustrophobia. However, do *not* forget that teamwork i…

  25.11.2016

• A New City Guide App from the Science Slam Participant

  …my city's history and culture, won contests and the like. Also, I remembered that it's often hard to navigate in a new city. And that is a problem, because when traveling, you want to spend your time as efficiently as possible. So I decided to solve this problem with a mobile app. When I was still a Bachelor, I developed a working prototype. My advisor was Igor Kots…

  24.11.2016

• Combining Studying, Work and Business — Alexandr Golovatiy Shares on His Surprise Me Project

  …o on. This actually worked. Dealing with programmers can be a lot harder. They generally don't like being praised, though there are exceptions. One of our developers always wanted to create some game-related application. A quest is kind of a game, which means it implies having a team. He understood that he couldn’t do such a project by himself, but then saw my adv…

  18.11.2016

• GenerationS Teaches Students to Sell their Ideas

  … The engineers plan to make radiofrequency coils used in MRI equipment more effective. Outdoor Wi-Fi Indoor Wi-Fi systems are not enough for modern people. Russian engineers want to equip outdoor lighting systems with new Wi-Fi devices. A high-tech spy A new application can pick up information about a person from his or her accounts on different social media ne…

  17.11.2016

• IT from the Very Beginning: How to Start a Business

  …e kept our startup capital in case our business failed and we had no money to live on. We had about 60,000 rubles for both of us — it was enough for a month. The fact I want to focus on: when we launched our project, I already had a wife and the little daughter. So, I had to explain my wife what I planned to do and why it was important. It is wonderful when yo…

  16.11.2016