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• Moscow Topography of Terror, Geography of Holocaust and Gulag Retrospective: Digital Humanities Projects That Remind of the Horrible Past

  …re's also an option to show particular sets of locations. Each set includes tags with descriptions of particular phenomena and the associated historic facts. For example, there's a section dedicated to repressed scientists, penal labor placements of the prisoners of Moscow concentration camps and so on. You can look up the locations of the places where convicted scie…

  23.01.2019

• Science Day at ITMO University

  …Program of the Conference The ITMO Open Science program has several sections, each with a different format and focus. The conference will start with a MegaBattle when the heads of all ITMO’s schools will share about their major achievements over the last year and talk about their departments’ science development strategies. MegaBattle will be held in the Science S…

  23.01.2019

• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Eclecticism

  …actories, which resulted in rapid urbanization. Together with the development of capitalism, it created the need for new city-planning strategies and approaches to the solution of functional and artistic problems. Criticized for being overly bureaucratic and impractical, Classicism with its grandeur and monumentality didn’t meet the requirements of the new period.…

  22.01.2019

• Ins and Outs of Modern Animation

  …ony Pictures Animation and Sony Pictures Imageworks have created an innovative visual language and method. Revolutions don’t come cheap. Due to the use of new technology, production lasted much longer than it usually does: most animated projects require a week of work to create four seconds of animation; Into the Spider-Verse spent that amount of time on just …

  22.01.2019

• Biggest Anthropology Breakthroughs of 2018

  …contents of an ancient Chinese tomb. It appears that the old lady was very fond of the ape, and they were buried together. Today, there are no gibbons in this area; the species’ extinction was caused by deforestation. The discovery indicates that China’s biodiversity has decreased dramatically over the last 2,000 years. Panda 100 chimpanzee site, Ivory Coast, …

  22.01.2019

• Winter, Explained: Why Snow is White, Ice Slippery, and Snowflakes Unique

  … frozen water is bound to their structure. Ice crystals are organized in strict order and have a clear orientation. This is why passing through the ice doesn’t impact the light’s direction that much. Shambolic in structure, snow crystals are on the polar side of the spectrum. Falling onto one snow crystal, the light bounces off to another one, which then once again c…

  21.01.2019

• Nanophotonics' Most Topical Fields: Research on Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Structures

  …omagnetic fields at the nanoscale. Combining metal nanoparticles and dielectrics in a single nanostructure offers new improved properties: strong nonlinear optical properties, unidirectional scattering, etc. This also contributes to such materials' relevance. You always have been focusing on photonics, haven't you? This is quite a complex story. I started my Ma…

  21.01.2019

• Russian Pelmeni: Not Just Student Food

  …an girls love pelmeni, the Russian take on meat dumplings. It’s about that microburst of hot, savory broth when you bite through the thin dough, the flavorful meat inside, the satisfaction of dripping butter or sour cream all over your chin, and the happy feeling that you can face the snow again. At 200 to 500 roubles ($3-7.5) per kilo, they’re also the all-in-on…

  21.01.2019

• 24-Year Old Millionaire on Cryptocurrency and Personal Development

  …perks. It’s proven to be a rather interesting idea that just popped into my head accidentally. We do have some competition in this market, but having so many stable, personal connections with the right people is a big advantage for us. Apart from this, I often travel to Singapore, Malta and Hong Kong giving presentations at various community events, and our compan…

  18.01.2019

• Nights in a Library, History Lessons and Stress Relieving Dogs: Academic Exchange at Seoul National University

  …e power of history, nationalism and the need to be considerate From Korean history lessons, I learned that collective memory is very strong in Koreans, and many of their everyday actions and their perception of different things are determined by their history. I remember how an international student accidentally ordered rice and, as he didn't know what to do with …

  18.01.2019