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• German Week in St. Petersburg: Experts Discuss Science Communication and the Social Mission of Modern Science

  …are not directly related to science. Universities in Germany today are actively involved in public engagement and finding new formats for communication with the public. I, for instance, run events for kids where I tell them about modern physics. For today’s scientists, communicating with the public has become a part of their day-to-day. The more traditional approa…

  11.04.2019

• Pop Goes the Bubble: A Quick Guide to Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and ICOs

  …tcoin? Bitcoin is a currency and a form of payment. To explain it better, let’s look at other currencies; say, the US dollar. The dollar has a centralized system that maintains its life cycle: banks, the government, the Federal Reserve. If you want to open a dollar bank account, you’ll need to go to a bank with your personal ID. If you’d like to transfer your fund…

  10.04.2019

• Exploring North Rhine-Westphalia: St. Pete Startuppers Pitch to German Companies

  …mbers work on developing a high-precision dynamic model of transport systems of cities and metropolitan areas. “Let’s say a city wants to build a road it needs,” explains Timofey Volozkiy, the laboratory’s co-head. “Its administration will have two choices: either simply build it and hope for the best or approach an expert and get a forecast. Most choose the…

  10.04.2019

• Travel Tips: Pskov

  …- to the teutonic knights in 1241 and to the Nazis in 1941. It’s not a particularly large kremlin, especially compared to that in Novgorod, but impressive nevertheless. Inside, spend some time admiring the Trinity Cathedral and wandering around the ancient Dovmontov Settlement. The excavated foundations of churches and other buildings make it easy to get into …

  09.04.2019

• Water-Spraying Parasols and Smart Traveling Apparel: Projects by Teens in Tech

  …ive side. What we offer is an app that will be the first to unite music, audiobooks and movies on a single platform with a modest subscription fee starting at 45 rubles,” explains the team behind the MBM app. Apart from the price, what makes MBM’s subscription system special is that its users can pick and choose between the content on offer, as an example exclus…

  09.04.2019

• University of Mexico’s Carlos Gershenson: Computers Are Telescopes With Which We Study Complex Systems

  …havior in any situation. But then Pasha goes to study at ITMO University where he meets and falls in love with Masha. And now we see his behavior change. All of a sudden he begins to take better care of himself. The only way to understand the new Pasha is to take into account his newfound relationship. Years later, the couple has a child named Sasha. Their int…

  08.04.2019

• Programming Music with Sonic Pi: A How-To

  …uter Programming. Although it’s stuffed with formulae, algorithms, and code, the name of the book implies that despite our attempts to formalize this field of activity, it remains highly ambiguous. It would seem that the brains of musicians and programmers have to work differently because, roughly speaking, one half of the human brai…

  08.04.2019

• Movie Fridays: Netflix’s New Stalker Drama You

  …ich I love with all my heart despite their total lack of contact with reality, I made myself comfortable and prepared for some sentimental up-and-down love story seasoned with insights into modern life and witty dialogs (hopefully). Can’t say that I was completely wrong: You does tell an up-and-down love story of two people living in the urban jungle of New York, eve…

  05.04.2019

• Professor Alessandra Bonoli on Ecodesign, Circular Economy and Life Cycle Thinking

  …ng of polar ice and glaciers, transformation of the water cycle (an increase in global precipitation, and the occurrence and intensity of such events as droughts, floods and rainstorms), rising of the sea level, desertification, food and water scarcity, increased rates of famine and human migration. At the same time, waste production exponential growing and natural r…

  05.04.2019

• Startup Veteran on Beginners’ Common Mistakes: A Founder’s Main KPI is Staying Alive

  …ontractual employment is nothing. Quite the contrary, it is a way to build your career. Of course, it limits you with a specific area of responsibility, but in California, for instance, you’ll make much more at a company than at a startup. Being an entrepreneur is more interesting and more difficult. You may still do the same work, like coding, but you’ll also hav…

  05.04.2019