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• "Patient Sapiens: a Guide to Herbs and Pills": Journalist Andrei Vodovozov on Medicine, Cannabis and Puppies

  …t our brain in a bad way. According to research from 2016, THC disinhibits the hippocampus, the component of the brain that is responsible for memory, learning and other important functions. The person stops seeing the whole picture and concentrates on something particular. Kittens, for instance. According to research conducted on mice, it is mostly the youngsters…

  06.02.2019

• Getting to Know Russian Literature, Part 2: the 20th Century

  …time and postwar literature The 20th century was the time of many military conflicts, not to mention the two World Wars, which contributed to an unprecedented development of war fiction and war journalism. In Soviet Russia, the Great Patriotic War became a topic of many novels, memoirs and films; while there are numerous writers who focused on this topic, some of …

  05.02.2019

• DigiRockStars Venture Fund Rep Steven Balliano: Don’t Go The Traditional Way

  …This happens in most cases, and there are reasons for that. Going the traditional way, you do what is the easiest for you to do: you fashion the technical part and leave the interaction with clients to the eleventh hour. In the course of your work, you fall in love with your product, with no one in time to tell you that’s not the way it should be done. Your startu…

  05.02.2019

• Falcon Heavy Launch, Cancer Treatment, and Neutrinos: Top Science News of 2018

  …Alexander Khokhlov, a space instrumentation engineer at the Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, the President of the Youth Section of the North-West division of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation One of the major highlights of the last year was the Falcon Heavy launch, which took place almost a year ago, on February 6, 2018. Th…

  05.02.2019

• Different Volunteering, Eco Camps and Fresh Perspective on Things: Belgian Gloria Sagaradze on Interning at ITMO

  …ium, we mostly communicate via email. I was also surprised by how big a role Google documents play in the working process; I think that it’s not always safe from the information protection perspective. What kind of tasks did you have during your internship, other than coordinating the Ecological Raids project? I had to figure out how the volunteering process is…

  05.02.2019

• Russian Scientists Conduct Research on European XFEL

  … developed at the DESY research center in Germany from 2009 to 2017 and cost over a million euros. Co-sponsored by several countries including Russia, which covered 27% of the construction costs, the European XFEL was officially opened in Hamburg on September 1, 2017. The 3.4-kilometer-long tunnel for the European XFEL runs 6 to 38m underground from the site of th…

  04.02.2019

• Sweet Ways to Treat a Cold

  …imize the effect” because high temperatures supposedly kill its magic. My favorite use of it is a black radish syrup. You cut the top off the radish (available in the vegetable sections of most grocery stores), hollow out most of the insides, replace them with honey and put the top back on. Let it sit for a day and enjoy homemade syrup by the spoonful. Tea wit…

  04.02.2019

• ITMO University Scientists Create Cancer Treatment Nanomachines

  …new ways of treating oncological diseases. Still, there are many experiments to be conducted before it can be applied in therapy. "For now, we are trying to introduce new functional elements in the framework, ones that will contribute to a more effective recognition of oncological markers, and are also optimizing the DNA nanomachine for various RNA targets. …

  04.02.2019

• Shadow Samurai: Motion Capture Game by ITMO Developers

  …ull immersion in the game. To solve this problem, the TAU Tracker startup developed a new motion tracking technology. They are currently working on an interface that allows for interaction with 3D objects with special gloves. Using these gloves, you can control 3D objects with just your hands, which you’ll see through the helmet screen. What makes the TAU Tracker’…

  01.02.2019

• Free Online Courses to Help You Keep New Year’s Resolutions

  …lish Last year, just about every YouTube vlogger considered it their duty to drop a word about Skillshare. It might be annoying, but the website indeed can boast an impressive selection of courses and offers a free subscription for three months. The flipside, however, is that uploading your own course on any topic is as easy as ABC. That’s why the resource is a…

  31.01.2019