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New Year’s Done Right: Brainy Books and Movies to Check Out This Holiday Season
…Books Liquid Rules, by Mark Miodownik Materials scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik provides insights into the amazing, mysterious, and unexpected properties of the well-known liquids that surround us. Kerosene, liquid soap, coffee, tea, alcohol, cleaning liquid, saliva, nitroglycerin, glue, and sauce – all these liquids are ever-present in our daily lives…
03.01.2020
Soviet Movies For the Winter Holidays
…d in the mid-1970s, this classic was meant to be a ridicule of the blunt and mundane architecture of the Soviet apartment buildings as much as a holiday love story, which explains the otherwise rather weird pretext of the movie. The main character, Zhenya, goes to a banya in Moscow to celebrate New Year's with his friends. After having one drink too many, however, he…
03.01.2020
Ready Player One: Games We Play Over the Holidays
…when I was a child, I stepped into the Witcher’s world in two dimensions: I discovered the books and the game at the same time, and I fell in love with both equally. They were inseparable. I can’t explain why I am hooked on this story and not on any other fantasy worlds, but somehow, after 10 years, I keep coming back. You can see why I'm excited to load this gam…
02.01.2020
Our New Year’s Resolutions for 2020
… I will have a reason to be proud of myself a year later? We’ll see! Anna H. I’d like to get better at putting together robots and other projects that requires following instructions and handling small parts, all for vague hope of making some humans happy. That’s the thing though – maybe this is the year to finally rejoice in the process and not be so attached …
01.01.2020
What is Your Word for 2019?
… fast to stand still, and to get somewhere, you have to run twice as fast.” ITMO University's Road Map for Project 5-100 sets ambitious goals. In 2019, we achieved some quick wins as well as some large-scale results that bring the university to a whole new level. Changes are implemented quickly. As a result, ITMO University’s leading position in Project 5-100 (second…
31.12.2019
Speak like a Russian: New Year’s Words
…and not even the New Year’s dinner, but the old-standing tradition of raising the glasses to the New Year’s chime at the last seconds of the passing year. Once the New Year begins, everyone starts congratulating each other, wishing everyone whatever they’re wishing, and partying. While the most popular toast on New Year’s eve is С новым годом!, and the subject of…
30.12.2019
Quantum Computers, Time Crystals, and Artificial Cells: 2019 in Science
… Naturally, 2019 was also full of research initiatives and results in the many projects of the International Research Center “Biotechnologies of the Third Millennium”, for instance, “Developing functional products based on nanoencapsulated complex biologically active ingredients with a proven preventive effect” and “Developing a method for early diagnosis and nut…
30.12.2019
Song of the Month: December 2019
… act upon discovering them. Anastasiia L. Somehow, this December I don’t listen to anything even remotely Christmassy and don’t even have any intention of starting. Instead, I’m engulfed by a weird mix of enchantingly poignant and slightly melancholic Agnes Obel’s Familiar, cheerful and eccentric Camila Cabello’s Havana, and utterly nostalgic Attack by 30S…
27.12.2019
Micro-Mobility, Fiber Concrete, Nanomaterials: Students Propose Innovations for ITMO Highpark Campus
…ilt from the most modern and eco-friendly materials? How to prevent raindrops from breaking down roads circumventing the building, and making them adorn the campus’s territory instead? Usually, students can’t influence these decisions, but not in ITMO Highpark project. ITMO students can participate in special workshops with discussions on the new campus’s building dr…
27.12.2019
Jozef Stephan Institute’s Miha Cimperman on Data Forecasting in Rail and Energy Industries