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• Creative Technologies: A New Core Course at ITMO University

  …ychological barriers that hinder their ability to think outside of the box, begin to believe in their creativity and learn how to stimulate it and use it. Splitting them into random groups lets us bring together students of different fields and foster interdisciplinary collaboration. It’s a great experience of individual and collective work, and the skills they gain …

  28.12.2018

• From Sunshine to Freezing Cold: An Ecuadorian’s Experience of Russia

  …ry man, maybe even a better one that he is. I’d also trained in a semi-professional football club, and football was the most important thing for me. But I got injured and abandoned training for studies. My dad may see me in the uniform, but I don’t want it. He did come to terms with my decision later though. What advice would you give to international stude…

  20.12.2018

• On the Origin of Memes: Meme Scientist Explains Post-Irony and Future of Internet Culture

  …a, the dawn of meme culture occurred in 2005-2007. One of the first big memes was Preved Medved, a picture meme based on artist John Lurie’s painting Bear Surprise to which a random Russian user added a purposefully misspelled Russian word for “Hello”. Another remarkable Russian meme was the “Witness from Fryazino”, a tracksuit-laden man spotted in a series of…

  13.12.2018

• Movie Fridays: New Releases

  …ationships, societal issues, and human nature in general. The film follows the story of a couple, Osamu (Lily Franky), who’s beavering away in construction, and Nobuyo (Sakura Ando), a launderette laborer, and their other household members, young woman Aki (Mayu Matsuoka) and wordly-wise grandmother Hatsue (Kirin Kiki; it was her last film), living in a poverty-stric…

  30.11.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 1-2

  …rase of ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’, and into the heads of people thinking of buying a pet to brighten up their long winter evenings. It’s hosted by a local animal shelter ‘Abandoned Angels’ in a hope to find their 400 feline and 20 canine chargés a loving home. All cats and dogs have been vaccinated and will attend the event with all the necessary documents and the…

  28.11.2018

• The Secret Life of Plants

  …pretty much any boulder in the Leningrad Oblast. But succession can happen in the most unusual places, too; you’ll sometimes see stone steps and masonry covered with moss in abandoned parks and estates. The destruction of architectural landmarks due to succession is inevitable in our climate. Xanthoria can quite literally consume marble and granite. St. Petersburg, f…

  20.11.2018

• Movie Fridays: The Best of Edward Norton

  …t drives the plot forward and makes it impossible to draw your eyes away from the screen. Here is my favorite scene from the movie. The Painted Veil (2006) Another standout performance of Norton’s career came in the shape of shy bacteriologist Walter Fane in John Curran’s 2006 romance film The Painted Veil. Based on the 1925 novel of the same name by W. Som…

  16.11.2018

• Do Smart Traffic Lights Dream of Self-Driving Cars? Traffic Expert Nil Podozerov Thinks So

  …versal in the US, is opting for multi-ring controllers with active adaptive control based on signals from transport detectors. This means that our international counterparts abandoned phase-based approach as we in Russia know it and started to consider each movement maneuver separately, controlling traffic movement in trajectories, rather than phases. The main adv…

  12.11.2018

• Movie Fridays: Anime's Unsung Heroes

  …naway Miyuki, all sleeping rough on the neon-glaring streets of the Japanese capital. Going through the trash on one chilly Christmas evening, the trio unexpectedly finds an abandoned baby boy, whom, after much deliberation, they decide to return to his rightful mother and duly set out to look for her while also trying to deal with their own demons in the course of t…

  19.10.2018

• PhD Vitaly Aksenov: Coding For Someone Other Than Myself Is Boring

  …tics, so I went to a study group at the Mathematical Center of the Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum №239. I did quite good, so in the end, I transferred there and abandoned my French studies. When I went to 9th grade, my mother decided that programming is the future and I have to brush up on computer science. As I wasn’t really good at it then, I unders…

  16.10.2018