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• Love, Death & Robots: Deadpool Director’s Love Letter to Nerds

  …First news about the project started coming in as early as 2008. Back then, Tim Miller, the filmmaker visionary behind Deadpool, and David Fincher, who worked on Fight Club and the more recent The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, House of Cards and Gone Girl, expressed their interest in creating an anthology of short Sci-Fi stories. 11 years down the road, their plan has…

  21.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 23-24

  …of the ever-rainy St. Petersburg, golden church domes, and delicate flower blossoms – Kustanovich’ paintings have it all. The exhibition is open daily from midday to 8pm. Admission is free. Great news for classical music aficionados out there! This Sunday, March 24, St. Isaac’s Cathedral hosts a concert of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s music to commemorate the 175th b…

  20.03.2019

• What Are Vernacular Regions and Why Study Them?

  …term emerged in the 1960s, when such regions were also called “perceptional” or “folk”. It gave start to the notion that borders of districts have to be defined by not the decisions of administrative agencies but rather by citizens who live there. For example, French philosopher Guy Debord said that a city is not a structure of streets and squares that can be mapp…

  20.03.2019

• Gold Nanoparticles and Canadian Science: ITMO Student’s Internship at University of Waterloo

  …y and security officials. The University of Waterloo hosts annual conferences and showrooms of their equipment in order to create a platform for communication between professionals in various fields. Students are also encouraged to participate, so we got a chance to share the results of our projects with other researchers. Though it was summer and most students we…

  19.03.2019

• Winter Universiade Participant Vadim Shvedov on Maths and Curling

  … be hard, but I manage to do that: in the end, I’m a mathematician, and working with numbers is part of my job. What do you plan to do in the future: work in your professional field or focus on a career in sports? I hope I’ll manage to do both, like I do now. You know, many people in Canada are successful at it. Here in Russia, people believe that if you’re…

  19.03.2019

• Science Communicator Daria Dvorzhitskaya on How to Measure the Effectiveness of Science Pop Events

  …f, or attitude to CERN and science and general. Right now I’m planning to conduct a series of surveys and possibly also use the method of observation. But the final decision will depend on the type of research questions we’ll go for, and also on the technical and administrative limitations we’ll be faced with. The surveys will encompass the audience of the eve…

  19.03.2019

• Programmer Kirill Yashchuk on How to Survive Seven Surgeries, Not Give Up and Launch Your Own Project

  …ding, as well as lectures by technical experts, for example, from Google. While there, I tried to talk to as many people as I could, from fellow programmers to marketing professionals and psychologists, just to obtain a varied experience. I think that first and foremost, this experience was useful in that it taught me to develop products for real people out there, no…

  18.03.2019

• Movie Fridays: Irish Cinema

  …rs of Her Majesty’s Army serving as a disconcertingly normalized backdrop to the daily life. Set in an equivocally-named place (“Derry, or Londonderry, depending on your persuasion”), Derry Girls is nonetheless unequivocal in its representation of the idiosyncratically Irish way of dealing with personal and national tragedies: either you laugh about it, or you satiri…

  15.03.2019

• Personal Branding in 2019: the Do’s and the Don'ts

  …you deem important: their occupation, hobbies, interests, job titles. Make a list of people you can interact with for six months. Comment on their posts and take part in discussion; mention them in relevant posts. This will get you into their newsfeed. Think of it as an invitation to tender. What you have to do is identify the person who makes the deci

  15.03.2019

• ITMO Launches New Specialization in Science Communication in Medicine and Biotechnology

  …Why a separate specialization in medicine and biotechnology? According to Daria Denisova, deputy head of ITMO University Science Communication Center, the decision to create a specialization in medicine and biotechnology was affected by the situation on the market, namely the growing demand for specialists in this field. “The program in science communication …

  15.03.2019