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Houston, We Have a Problem: the Dangerous Subtleties of Space Flights
…n they are in space. The Soyuz 9 mission proved the importance of providing crews with enough physical training, because in space, our bones and muscles do not have to work against gravity, so they start to deteriorate. After about three weeks in space, severe atrophy develops, which can cost astronauts their lives. That’s why the ISS is equipped with exercise machin…
16.08.2018
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 18-19
…y Ganenko’s band will perform classics of rock music and modern hits, such as Queen’s “Show Must Go On”, AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” or even the theme to Game of Thrones, with violins and keyboards. On Saturday and Sunday, symphonic orchestra A Tempo Orchestra will perform music from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean and other legendary films with time-te…
15.08.2018
ITMO Rowing Club: Healthy Lifestyle and International Competitions
…ssional rowers cover in less than six minutes. In this short amount of time, they spend heaps of energy. Such workload does not just strengthen one’s core muscles, but also trains endurance, willpower, character. Rowing is also an ideal cardio, much better than running or cycling, and it’s less traumatizing, to boot. Which competitions does ITMO rowing team pa…
15.08.2018
Schrödinger’s Paradox and Doctor Faustus’ Lab: the Many Faces of “Gatchina Light Nights”
…For the first time round, the 2018 “Gatchina Light Nights” was a whopping two-day event instead of one. Organizers say that they want to continue increasing the festival’s duration to bring it in line with its European counterparts: for example, light festivals in the Netherlands and Finland span from five days to a whole month, attracting millions of tourists from a…
15.08.2018
ITMO University Enters Academic Ranking of World Universities for the First Time
…by Ekaterina Esaulova, a programmer at the Information Technologies and Programming Faculty. The research demonstrated how intestinal microbiota affects the immune response against influenza. Multipotent peripheral glial cells generate neuroendocrine cells of the adrenal medulla (Science), published in Science, co-authored by Vyacheslav Dyachuk, a junior research f…
14.08.2018
ITMO Student Wins VK Cup-2018
Gennady Korotkevich Wins Google Code Jam For The Fifth Time
… each. After the second round, 500 participants remain, and only 25 of them make it to Google Code Jam’s finals. Every year, the finals take place at a different place. For instance, 2017’s Google Code Jam took place in Dublin, Ireland, and this time, the competition ended in Toronto, Canada. The cash prize for winning the competition is 15,000 dollars. Rul…
14.08.2018
How to Train for Competitions and Why do it Now
…g for a competition by learning participation requirements and the benefits it gives when entering a university. In case of ITMO, we have a list of competitions that also contains information about which results give students an advantage when entering ITMO on a particular program. There are also different online preparatory schools. The problem with those is that…
14.08.2018
ITMO Team Wins at RobotChallenge-2018 in Beijing
… pressed “pancakes” are easier to store and transport back to the mainland. Clean Arctic includes a surveillance system that identifies the empty tanks from above – for instance, from an unmanned drone. It dispatches robots to the location of the tanks, which collect them into a special cargo compartment. As coach Igor Lositsky notes, the project has been v…
13.08.2018
Going Digital: How Technologies Change Our World
…ponsible for something that has nothing to do with you. False temporality. People may find it hard to distinguish between modern events and the distant past. Take, for instance, this new Russian movie, Matilda. Who cares what happened between the Emperor and a ballerina 100 years ago? Joyless economy. Having things like a new smartphone or good clothe…
13.08.2018