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• 4 Inspiring Startup Success Stories (And How They Did It)

  … moved on to their friends’ friends and so on. After a while, they started paying attention to other businesses, like cafes and restaurants, whose clients often used taxis. Instead of investing in advertising, the developers decided to collaborate with these places and offer their guests vouchers for a free ride. The same strategy was later used by the Yandex comp…

  18.02.2019

• Ex-Executive Director of Nobel Foundation Michael Sohlman: How to Win the Nobel Prize

  …ible to say what exactly you have to do to become a Nobel Laureate; but most importantly, you have to write, discover or create something that has never been done before. Many insights can be found in the biographies of previous Nobel Laureate. Education plays a key role: Herbert A. Simon, who won the Nobel Prize “for his pioneering research into the decision-maki…

  18.02.2019

• Internships at Huawei: ITMO Students Share

  …thing right, you have no problems with meeting the deadlines at the university. What's more, some of the knowledge that I get at ITMO helps me with my internship, as well. For instance, many things that I do at Huawei have to do with discrete mathematics, and I already knew the fundamentals when I only came to the company. On the other hand, I think that my intern…

  15.02.2019

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

  … arose from ITMO University’s Chem-Bio Cluster: professor Ekaterina Skorb told us about the Soft Robotics technology, and the staff gave us small samples to play with. We took inspiration from that advice but did everything on our own after that. The capture mechanism you now see on the robot is the final product developed by us from start to finish.” The te…

  15.02.2019

• Grouchy Introvert's Valentine's Day Manifesto

  …e Russian babushkas. But there is one day when our crotchety hearts unite in angry disapprobation, as we wince and hiss at the lovey-dovey couples getting all cozy in metro trains. That day, as you well may have guessed, is February 14, aka Valentine’s Day, aka the bane of my life and the offense to any sound person’s logical faculties. Now, I don’t hate relations…

  14.02.2019

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

  … any exams. The problem revealed itself later, at the anatomy theater, where young Mendeleev fainted during an autopsy. His mother advised him to apply to the Main Pedagogical Institute instead: one didn’t have to pay for education there, so it was a good opportunity to live off the state for a while. Right after he was enrolled, his…

  14.02.2019

• The Neuroscience of Love

  … have an increased number of D1 receptors from the get-go and they don’t need to grow new ones, which is why they are able to switch between partners. The human brain maintains its own serotonin-dopamine balance: the more there is of the former, the less there is of the latter, and vice-versa. Those who take antidepressants (most antidepressants increase the serot…

  14.02.2019

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

  …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 stages, back lots, film sets, and dressing rooms. Learn about the history of TV and how movies are made today, try your hand as a makeup ar…

  13.02.2019

• Green Building: Putting Sustainable Development Into Practice

  …ronmental impact and comfortability. The first such category is management. How to manage a building to make it more eco-friendly? This criterion evaluates what kind of inspections are carried out by a developer, whether they give consideration to the objects present on the site prior to the start of construction, and how much they try to save as much of these…

  13.02.2019

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

  … Bett on the various cases of organising the educational process and note the audience's reaction, you understand that such practices have been introduced in other regions and institutions. And I, as someone who stays up to date on any news regarding technological solutions in the field of education in Russia, learned of many devices for the first time. I sometimes s…

  13.02.2019