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

  …ncentration of the active agents. We can't guarantee that every plant will have the same concentration. This is why we now buy aspirin, as we know for sure that each pill contains 0,5 grams of the active ingredient. In theory, we could go and pick some white willow bark, brew it and use as an antipyretic. Still, its effect will be impossible to control. In some cases…

  06.02.2019

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

  …mind more openly, and was more liberal, to a particular degree. Also, many Soviet sci-fi writers focused on the more philosophical aspects of futurism, which provides quite an insight into how entire generations of people perceived the world around them, and their hopes for the future. As for the notable authors, that would be Aleksey Tolstoy in the early 20th centur…

  05.02.2019

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

  …The traditional approach Everyone who has ever tried to launch their business project, traveled that classical path: the search for inspiration, the choice of the concept idea, the start of the project’s implementation. In Finland, if you were to ask your family their thoughts on your idea, chances are that they won’t pat you on the back and say how great you are.…

  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

  …ernship at the Belgian embassy in Lebanon. This was a good starting point for me: because it was such a small embassy, I didn’t just have to sit at my desk doing boring tasks. Instead, I had the opportunity to accompany the Belgian ambassador and first secretary to really important meetings with the Lebanese government to tackle the implementation of the mine-clearin…

  05.02.2019

• International Year of Periodic Table Proclaimed Open in Paris

  …search and Innovation at the Ministry for Higher Education and Research of France Alain Beretz and other notables from a wide range of eminent research, educational and social institutions from over 80 countries. Representing ITMO University at the event were Mikhail Kurushkin, an associate professor at the Research and Educational Center of Chemical Engineering and …

  04.02.2019

• Russian Scientists Conduct Research on European XFEL

  … Roman Reznik from the International Research Center of Functional Materials and Optoelectronic Devices. Among the researchers was also Vladimir Strokov from the Paul Scherrer Institute. The experiment lasted for ten days. The scientists exposed two nanocrystals grown at ITMO to two lasers. One of the lasers excited a powerful optical impulse, which caused osc…

  04.02.2019

• Sweet Ways to Treat a Cold

  …s 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 with raspberry jam. Some people keep a jar of homemade raspberry …

  04.02.2019

• Webometrics-2018: ITMO University in Top-5 Russian Universities

  …In the ranking, each university’s web resources are evaluated based on four indicators of different weight, each representing the effectiveness of an educational institution’s online presence. They are: Presence, which is based on the number of Google-indexed web pages hosted on the university’s main web domain; Openness, which is based on the number of citations in …

  04.02.2019

• How to Win a Grant From ITMOSTUDENTS.Initiative

  …res, as well as to show that projects like these can make money. In the first year, we received 45 applications and won 17. This year, the number of winners was also 17,” explains deputy chair of ITMO.STUDENTS Meruert Nurysheva. Applications can be submitted within a two-week window. They must include descriptions of personal experience, goals, tasks, the projec…

  01.02.2019