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• Entrepreneur Vaagn Ogannisian: Businesses Must Make Friends With Universities

  …. But there’s no reason to be afraid. If you approach things professionally, you can do it. Speaking of your restaurants. Why did you decide to sell your own beer there instead of serving existing products? It is, unfortunately, more profitable to buy and sell than make your own. But we brew beer because that’s where we started. Our brewery was the foundati…

  03.04.2020

• At-Home Sports: How to Stay Active While Self-Isolating

  …r own challenges,” says Angelina.  Free apps Apart from this, there are many free apps that will help you get some much-needed physical activity while at home. For instance, the creators of DownDog have made all of their apps free of charge for the isolation period. Until May 1, you can do yoga, barre (a combination of yoga, pilates, and ballet exercises)…

  03.04.2020

• How Statistics Can Skew Facts – and How We Can Learn to Trust It Again

  …ecisions depend on it: whether to share research findings with the public, to publish them in a scientific journal, to allocate funding for further research, and so on. For instance, major peer-reviewed journals prefer research that has produced results with a p-value below 0.05. But a number of issues arose in the scientific world, because the system adapted to t…

  03.04.2020

• Safe and Social: Video Games to Play in Self-Isolation

  …something we can recommend to you with a necessary word of caution, as games in this genre are essentially virtual worlds with even real-life marriages known to have happened “inside” them. Massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft or Destiny 2 allow you to interact with hundreds of other gamers logged into the game with you, all exploring a typically…

  03.04.2020

• ITMO Students Can Now Exchange Esports Wins for P.E. Grades

• This Stay-At-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 4-5

  … see it in a form that others can understand, then this might be an event you’ve always needed to boost your creative abilities. Who says your own home cannot be your cabin of inspiration after all?  A Socially Distant BioBlitz April 5, 5am to 10pm (UTC-4) Being stuck at home doesn’t always mean you have to forget all about the flora and fauna that’…

  01.04.2020

• “I Am a Professional”: Competition Winners on Experience Gained and Opportunities Discovered

  …ack. Yakov Golovanev, fourth-year student, Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems, Software Engineering track. Pavel Zhdanov, second-year Master’s student, Institute of Cyber Technologies for Financial Systems, Business Informatics track. Pavel holds the record for the number of tracks in which a student has participated, seven in total: he is a p…

  01.04.2020

• ITMO Scientists Propose an Improved Technology for Detecting Ultra-Low Magnetic Fields

  …agnetometers. However, there are very weak magnetic fields that are very hard to measure in accurately. For example, such fields occur as a result of neurons working in our brains. Meanwhile, there are situations when the magnetic field of gray matter has to be detected in the most precise way possible.  “This is needed, for instan…

  01.04.2020

• Don’t Panic: How to Keep It Together During a Pandemic

  … not only keep yourself safe, but give medical researchers much-needed time to do their work,” says Olga Vershinina, PhD in biology and a staff member of the Komarov Botanical Institute. Panic: the norm or an issue? Changes, of which spring of 2020 has brought us plenty, are always a source of stress. Since we’re alive, we can’t just “swallow” information – a…

  31.03.2020

• Love Canned Goods Like a Russian