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Light in the City: How Light Affects Our Mood and Emotions
…olor temperatures create a more relaxed feel, which makes this kind of lighting particularly common in residential rooms. This theory is also used in the Moscow metro: in some new cars, when people go to work in the morning, the color temperature is about 4,000-5,000K, compared to 3,000K in the evening. Apart from that, there is also RGB, which stands for red,…
20.05.2019
ITMO Physicists Found New Way to Optimize Nanoparticles and Light Interaction
…ay for their effective applications in the industry and beyond. As a result of recent research, physicists from ITMO University have been the first to successfully describe new features of the optical response of dielectric particles. They managed to demonstrate that there are complex configurations of displacement currents inside the particle, which lead to toroi…
20.05.2019
“Calmness, Only Calmness.” Classic Soviet Cartoons to the Rescue
Live from New York, It’s… Best of SNL
… the whole Youtube commentariat and I demand that the show go on, like, stat. Opera Man Returns He protec (us from an informational deficit), he attac (idiots in the news), and he is as pleasant to watch as is eating a bucket of spicy guac with no digestive consequences. Played by goofy man-o to the gods Adam Sandler, Opera Man is one of my most favorite ch…
17.05.2019
RTDA Bureau Wins Prestigious International Award for Architectural Plan of ITMO Highpark
…d improvement of public spaces. The bureau’s portfolio includes such major projects as the development of Imereti Lowlands for the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, the design of a new residential district in Mumbai (India) and others. Having won the competition organized by ITMO Highpark JSC from September 4 to October 1, 2018, the Moscow bureau was commissioned to de…
17.05.2019
Master’s Student Mrinal Vashisth: Embracing Interdisciplinarity is Like Discovering Your Superpowers
…n analyzing NGS data and creating associated databases. When I was writing it, I was doing an internship at one of India’s best independent research institutions, CSIR-IGIB in New Deli. I worked under the guidance of Dr. Vinod Scaria who is a well-known figure in the field of genomics. He is most famous for sequencing the first Indian, Sri Lankan and Malaysian genome…
17.05.2019
Avengers and Time Travel: Scientific Perspective
Two-Minute Beach Cleans and Plastic-Identifying AI: How Citizen Science Combats Plastic Waste in Oceans
… society associations and other kinds of informal groups. If you don’t have access to such communities locally (their list can be found on the app’s website), you can create a new one. Communities can organize two different types of events through the MLW app: monitoring events or clean-up events. The app allows for monitoring and generating data about litter foun…
16.05.2019
Master's Students from Mexico on Studying in Russia and ITMO's Art&Science Program
…science happens in closed-off labs somewhere far away, but in reality, science is something we live in and live through day to day. Art can be the means to connect society and new knowledge, new technologies. In choosing to study Art & Science, I was motivated by the desire to popularize science and create something of my own, something…
16.05.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 18-19
…n 12 PM and 9 PM. Vinyl Days In a rare coincidence, St. Petersburg will host not one, but two different events for fans of vinyl music this weekend. First off, the New Holland Island is holding the Vinyl Mne Mil Charity Market, with all proceeds going to the Ilyinka animal shelter. Meet fellow vinyl enthusiasts, explore a variety of recordings – from anti…
15.05.2019