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• Travel the Trans-Siberian Railway Like a Russian

  …It might be a while before I can actually do that, so I was happy to climb under a blanket over the holidays and go on an imaginary journey with the new book TrainsSib. The Train is Leaving!  Every spread depicts a town or a village along the way through the eyes of a local child or adult: their favorite sights, activities, treasures at the local market, local wor…

  06.01.2020

• Ten Life-Changing Technologies of 2019. Part 1

  … checkout. Temi (Temi USA) and Loomo (Segway Robotics) are the next generation of personal assistants: they are like Amazon Echo and Google Home but mobile, bringing them to a new level of functionality. For example, Loomo is not just a companion, but can also transform into a scooter.  The ever increasing elderly population of the world would benefit most fro…

  06.01.2020

• New Year’s Done Right: Brainy Books and Movies to Check Out This Holiday Season

  …ections in almost every American state. The book is a great pick for anyone interested in mathematics, machine learning, sociology, and economics. An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases, by Moises Velasquez-Manoff Velasquez-Manoff’s work presents an in-depth analysis of the connection between the growing “sterility”…

  03.01.2020

• Soviet Movies For the Winter Holidays

  …t 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 ends up on a plane to St. Petersburg and gives the taxi driver his Moscow home's address, arriving at a building identi…

  03.01.2020

• Ready Player One: Games We Play Over the Holidays

  …ouse in the other, debating what to do next and making guesses as to who was the main suspect. Later, as we got more and more involved with the game series and purchased every new game as soon as it was released, we started competing with each other, trying to finish the game faster than our companion. I wish we hadn’t done it, as it lead to us cheating in order to s…

  02.01.2020

• Our New Year’s Resolutions for 2020

  …Anastasia K. I think my resolution for the new year would be to screw all resolutions and just wing it, because I’ve had enough of all this motivational shizzle at this point in time. I have one specific thing I’d like to persevere with, though, which is to become more eco-friendly because the planet is literally on fire and I kind of like this Earth of ours (thou…

  01.01.2020

• What is Your Word for 2019?

  …something good."  Elena Borisova, director of the Student Services Office "The word on my mind is “changes”. To me, this has been my most eventful year at ITMO, with new goals and new people. Changes often frighten us, but a difficult transition period is usually followed by the realization that everything has been for the bes…

  31.12.2019

• Speak like a Russian: New Year’s Words

  …by saying “Поздравляю с … ” (pozdravlyau s, I congratulate you + with) and adding what exactly you congratulate them on, or just stating the occasion, which in our case is the New Year: “C Новым Годом!” (s novym godom!). Basically, the longer version is the more formal one that’s usually used in writing, and the shorter one is what's used in the common speech.  An…

  30.12.2019

• Our 2019, Illustrated

• Quantum Computers, Time Crystals, and Artificial Cells: 2019 in Science

  …a very long time. And now there is an actual company that spends its resources wisely and is investing in and trying to create these devices.  Secondly, I would mention the news about He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who altered the genes of embryos in an attempt to make them HIV-resistant and claimed that he had succeeded. Although it’s not a straightforward ca…

  30.12.2019