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• Dragon Anatomy and Folk Tales: Physicist and Anthropologist Discuss Game of Thrones

  …ocial anthropology is to study the dynamics of cultural and social mechanisms without which the society stagnates and cannot survive crises. Even the ritual of celebrating the New Year is a vital part of our progressive growth, as it helps us analyze our lives and adjust them if necessary. Anthropology began studying societal changes with the rites of passage …

  26.04.2019

• English Teachers Unite at NATE Convention

  …n Russia – the National Association of Teachers of English (NATE). The association is headed by its honorary President and Founder Svetlana Ter-Minasova who describes it as a “new way to learn about other cultures through learning their language”. NATE brings together the most enthusiastic teachers of the English language all over Russia through a range of activities…

  25.04.2019

• Green Campuses and Recycling: Sustainable Development by Youth International Forum at ITMO

  …nt is the recycling of solid waste (the city generates some 8 million tonnes of solid waste, only 25% of which are recycled). The main task in this direction is to establish a new system that would ensure the recycling and reutilization of solid waste.…

  25.04.2019

• ITMO Graduate Mikhail Galkin on PhD Studies in Germany and the Importance of Believing in Oneself

  …ch group and field. Do you plan to stay in Germany? As of now, I have a blue card that allows me to work in the EU. I’ve also been offered to continue my research at the new Center for Explainable and Efficient AI Technologies (CEE AI) in Dresden. But I’m still going to keep in touch with ITMO; for one, I’m contributing to the development of online courses, and…

  25.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 27-28

  …haste of our daily commutes. Luckily, St. Petersburg. The Landscape is just the exhibition to make you stop and smell the roses, or, err, look a statue in the eye. Held at the New Exhibition Hall of the State Museum of Urban Sculpture, it features the local photographers’ takes on the quirky interactions between the urban sculpture and landscape of the Northern Venic…

  24.04.2019

• Urban Change Week: Do Your Bit to Change the City for the Better

  …ities, we need a lot of catching up to do. For example, there are 433,000 trees in Berlin (100 trees per 1,000 people and 485 trees per one square kilometer), 680,000 trees in New York (80 trees per 1,000 people and 867 trees pers one square kilometer), 727,000 trees in London (90 trees per 1,000 people and 462 trees pers one square kilometer), and 270,000 trees in A…

  24.04.2019

• Congress of Young Scientists Participant Yaroslav Kapustin: Had I Not Worked on My Own Projects, I Never Would Have Learned What I Know

  …levant topic. Many global companies such as Google or Facebook, entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, and even governments are talking about the global internet. You may have read the news about the “space internet” and similar ideas. But first of all, they are all very costly, and secondly, setting them up will take not a day and not even a year. Building a network of th…

  24.04.2019

• The Magic of Russian May Holidays

  …ht and my grandparents took me on our first road trip, to Novgorod. Up until then, grandma would send me postcards from her travels, which was nice, but not the same thing. I knew that if I “behaved”, this trip would be the start of something good. I was sporting a new pink jacket and thought myself looking pretty spiffy. Grandma had…

  23.04.2019

• ITMO Developers on Creating an Evaluation System for Plagiarism Detection in 48 Hours

  … algorithms. These algorithms can effectively detect copied content, retrieve its source and assess its volume. Special databases and evaluation systems are used to test these new plagiarism detection algorithms and understand which of them show the best results. For example, there is a database called PAN Summary in which the task of plagiarism detection is divid…

  23.04.2019

• Exosuits, Career Guidance Bots, and Water Quality Analysis: Projects by Participants of Congress of Young Scientists

  … tools was in English, which made the development time longer. A key issue in terms of engineering was that we had to learn how to use the NanoCad software, which was a new tool for us. Then we also had to spend quite some time learning the National State Standards on construction drawings. A big challenge in terms of organization was having to plan our effort…

  23.04.2019