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How Reading and Literature Changed in the Digital Age
…rto Eco wanted to say is that it’s not important what is written, what is the author’s idea: the only thing that’s important is how it’s understood. An object of high culture, Anna Karenina, for example, can be interpreted as a dime novel about an unfortunate love affair. As philosopher Roland Barthes said, the author is dead. The moment a book leaves the publishi…
10.04.2020
Oncologist Maksim Kotov: Communicating With a Patient Shouldn’t Be a Game of Luck
…dback, and I understood that the Russian professional community of doctors were interested in this topic, that there was a demand for such information. Then I took a course at Anna Dorman’s school of medical communication, after which I started developing my own intensive program in accordance with the Calgary–Cambridge consultation model, my experience and all the k…
08.04.2020
Life During a Pandemic: Experiences, Changes, Silver Linings
…), and a very filtered-out presence on social media – seeing people trying to comfort each other or completely losing it like I am has been just a little bit heartwarming. Anna First, I feel grateful for being healthy and safe, being able to stay connected with family, who are also doing OK, for food in the stores, and for the internet. It seems like one of my…
07.04.2020
At-Home Sports: How to Stay Active While Self-Isolating
…R Fitness specializes in the latest trends in the world of fitness – here you have workouts in the form of Tabata training, HIIT, dance fitness, crossfit and others. The host, Anna Renderer, invites famous fitness coaches to record workouts, and the project’s website has over 400 videos which are free during this period of self-isolation. An extremely charismatic…
03.04.2020
HackUniversity: ITMO Students Become Award Winners at First Distributed Hackathon
… detection of anomalies was on the basic level, and we want to make it more precise. We might add machine learning in order to further improve the service’s efficiency,” notes Anna Berezina, another Invew team member who’s also a student at ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies. The students also say that working on a case from home wasn’t really dif…
31.03.2020
Song of the Month: March 2020
… all and more, shifting seamlessly from melancholic to kooky to groovy to sweet to melancholic back again. It’s honestly so much fun to listen to – do give it a go! Anna H Keeping the umbrella theme, my go-to song has been a funky ‘60s cover of Rihanna’s Umbrella by a German band The Baseballs. Bring out those A-line skirt…
27.03.2020
Unexplored St. Petersburg: Yusupov Palace
…andts – that was moved to the Hermitage and the Russian Museum after the Russian Revolution. But, of course, the incident that really secured this palace a place in the annals of history occurred on December 17, 1916, when Felix Yusupov, the dynasty’s last Prince before its exile to Europe, and a group of his co-conspirators made their attempt on the life of G…
13.03.2020
At the Intersection of Biology, Chemistry, and IT: New Participants of ITMO Fellowship & Professorship Program on Their Research at ITMO
…ersity’s Master’s program in Art & Science really sparked my interest, and I would like to collaborate on it.” Inside genomic mysteries Also talking about her work was Anna Zhuk, who previously worked in the research group of Prof. Stephen J. O’Brien and has joined ITMO after him. Anna specializes in the study of yeast genomes, …
12.03.2020
First ITMO Ecohack Participants Create Automatic Waste Sorting System
… to be unloaded. Each project was presented in front of a jury that consisted of Yuri Kuporosov, a manager at ITMO University’s Student Initiatives Support Department, Anna Smirnova, the head of the waste sorting implementation department at RazdelnySbor (Russian for “separate waste collection” – Ed.) Association, and Pavel Lekshin, the organizer of ITMO.KIDS…
11.03.2020
IEEE Scholarship recipient Anna Kuzikova: Science is What Drives Self-improvement