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• Movie Fridays: Disconnect… The Person You’re Trying to Reach is Currently Unavailable

  …ut this movie is that despite all the hi-tech devices flashing on the screen every other minute, it’s actually not about the power of the internet at all, but about the power of connection, about ordinary people trying to reach each other in today’s weird, wired world. About love, intimacy, remorse and compassion, and that’s what makes it so touching and sincere. I w…

  15.02.2019

• Project by ITMO Robotics Team Named Best at Baltic Science and Engineering Competition

  …ry, as the contest has been held annually since 2005. According to the organizers, now it’s one of the biggest scientific contests for school students in Russia, combining strict selection of projects by scientists and university lecturers with modern traditions in the organization of scientific events. Organized by the Time For Science foundation and the Laborato…

  15.02.2019

• Grouchy Introvert's Valentine's Day Manifesto

  …ssion burning a mawkish-pink hole in our calendars. Count me in. If all else fails, you could just lock yourself up in an underground shelter with a week’s worth of food and a selection of markedly unromantic books. I, for one, will be reading Margaret Thatcher’s biography I got given for Christmas, so I think I couldn’t be safer. Also: Netflix. Bury yourself in s…

  14.02.2019

• Dmitri Mendeleev: Everything You Need to Know About the Inventor of Periodic Table

  …o do that, they needed an alcoholometric scale, and Mendeleev’s task was to come up with one. The main difficulty was that it is impossible to obtain absolute alcohol by simple fractional distillation, because a mixture containing around 96% alcohol and 4% water becomes a constant boiling mixture. But Mendeleev was the first one to manage it. He created fully anhy…

  14.02.2019

• The Neuroscience of Love

  …e male mouse’s brain is restructured so as to make sure that he doesn’t fall in love with anyone else. The nucleus accumbens is the same area of the brain that is responsible for addiction to certain drugs, which is why love is often compared to a drug-induced trance. Non-monogamous mice have an increased number of D1 receptors from the get-go and they don’t need to …

  14.02.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 16-17

  …Davidson. The exhibition is open from February 8 till March 3. Admission is free. Exhibition to Kinopolis movie studio For those who want to learn more about modern cinema production, the Kinopolis movie studio organizes interactive exhibitions, the first one kicking off this Saturday, February 16. Once inside, you find yourself in the world of cinema with stag…

  13.02.2019

• Green Building: Putting Sustainable Development Into Practice

  …Sustainable development and eco-construction are interconnected. Green standards are needed for constructing buildings that are more eco-friendly. While ten years ago eco-construction in Russia was something that was laughed about, now there is a multi-professional community strongly driven by the green building cause. Also known as …

  13.02.2019

• 'All We Have to Do is Work Harder': Head of ITMO's Science and Technology Foresight on Bett-2019

  … new things of their own. For example, a student can log onto some platform, write a bit of code and see how real devices interact with their code. This way, they learn how their actions in the digital environment can affect the real life. VR models work in a similar manner. Before today, students learned about World War I by reading textbooks; now they can put on…

  13.02.2019

• Romantic St. Petersburg

  …iconic roofs of the city, and even the Sea Port of St. Petersburg far off in the distance. Anichkov Garden Even though this oft-overlooked quaint park is situated at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and Fontanka River, it is surprisingly serene and quiet. Many a St. Petersburg citizen have passed it by, unaware that the wrought-iron fence of Anichkov Palace …

  12.02.2019

• Over 300 Students From 14 Universities Compete for Potanin Scholarship at ITMO

  …ussian universities applied for participation in the first round of the 2018/2019 academic year scholarship contest. Of all of these applications, 3,324 were approved for further selection subsequent to the technical examination, with 1,998 participants making it through to the second round after that. The second round took place from January 28 to February 9, 2019, …

  12.02.2019