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

  …e theme is, very loosely, the rustic Banya recreated. Planks of wood are bolted haphazardly to the wall and the changing rooms have wooden frills slightly reminiscent of a mountain-top fortress. But it’s all rather spoiled by the plastic panelling and ugly exposed pipes, presumably added in the Soviet era. The entrance is marked by an intriguing, industrial metal can…

  02.12.2016

• Startups in the Rest of Russia: How to Know about Local Business Specifics?

• 5 Things You Need to Know

  …"Atlas of the Underworld" revealed oceans and mountains lots of Earth’s history. A complete x-ray of Earth’s interior is coming into focus with a catalogue of subducted plates and related surface rock records. Graphene textiles could enable wearable electronics. A new method of producing environmentally friendly conductive cotton fabrics using graphene-based ink o…

  28.11.2016

• The Ultimate Guide to the Russian Banya

  …egkim parom" or "With Light Steam" meaning: Enjoy your Bath! The mother of all banyas — the Sandunovskie — is in Moscow. This was the favourite of Pushkin and Tolstoy and retains today its palatial grandeur. It boasts a large pool lined with pillars, stuccoed ante-chambers, ornate chandeliers, a huge multi-level Parilka, a variety of different plunge-pools and is …

  25.11.2016

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

  … of Warcraft. But somewhere along the way, in the late 2000s, adventure gaming made a decisive shift from the digital and into the real world, creating an entirely new entertainment genre. Known abroad as "Immersive Team Games' or "Escape Room Games,' they are referred to in Russia by the far snappier term "Kvest' or "Quest.' The basic premise is usually that a gr…

  25.11.2016

• Quantum Dots Offer New Platform for Fingertip Terahertz Devices

  …ng tissues, but, unlike X-rays, is not ionizing and poses no health hazard. Therefore, medical practitioners could benefit immensely from compact terahertz scanners that can obtain pictures of tissues in a living organism. In addition, terahertz waves are currently employed for the development of high-speed communication systems based for aerospace industry, where th…

  25.11.2016

• A New City Guide App from the Science Slam Participant

  …from. I can't still pick the right metaphor that'll describe how my app works. There are lots of places that are distanced from each other. Each one is appropriate for a certain group of people. We have a range of tags and a user. So, we have to solve two tasks: first is choosing a range of places for the user and arranging them according to his preferences. The o…

  24.11.2016

• Internet of Magic Things: How to Improve IoT Systems

  …nstance, if one develops an interface for a pregnant woman, where pregnancy is a meta-scenario, one has to take into accounts her needs, decisions and problems faced during certain trimester. One more issue to be discussed is the interaction channel’s change. For example, you used a personal computer, and then decided to work on a tablet. It would be better to make …

  23.11.2016

• Kazakhstan. Kyrgyzstan. Tajikistan. Not Countries That Are Right at the Top of Everyone’s Travel Bucket List

  …ormer capital in the South, Almaty. After a 19 hour train ride — I really was becoming a veteran of Kazakh travel by this point — I found myself at the foot of snow-capped mountains that encircle the city. The city has many high-points: the magnificent, 19th Century neo-classical Zenkov or Ascension Cathedral, which is the second largest all-wooden structure in the w…

  17.11.2016

• Gutenberg’s Lounge — Machines and Intuition

  … were told of it. With time, they began to do it right. This means that humans can learn to do something without being aware how they do it. Surprisingly, this ability is retained even after amnesia — it seems that in this case, the "thinker" is destroyed, but the "doer" is unaffected. Also, when one performs implicit tasks, different brain sectors are activated —…

  17.11.2016