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• Musicians: Nature or Nurture? Science Journalist Asya Kazantseva Explains

  …, but there is evidence indicating that if you start doing music it will somehow modify the structure of your brain (just like pretty much everything that you do). Good news: music really affects your brain People who do music professionally have something in their brain that distinguishes them from other people. These characteristics are statistically sign…

  17.12.2018

• University of Twente’s Stefano Stramigioli: Robotics Is About Giving Machines Life

  …d be a great topic to work on. Our team at the University of Twente isn’t working on that particular topic right now, so it would be great to use my experience to do something new here in St. Petersburg. Even though I’m not in St. Petersburg all the time and only come here a few times a year, we always stay in touch. If my students want to discuss their ideas, the…

  17.12.2018

• InnoJam "TimeHack": Real Options Theory and Machine Learning

  …kload of our employees. For now, we're using Excel to do that, which is not really effective when working with large amounts of data. So, we've decided to consider introducing new instruments that would've made our job easier. For us, it's important that the product we'll be using is of Russian origin. Our main goal is not just getting a system with high usability, b…

  14.12.2018

• WorldSkills Winner on His Competition Experience

  … of refrigerating fluid into the freezer. This was the part I lost a lot of time on, which led to me losing my cool. That was partly because the equipment I had to work on was new to me; I’d practiced on a simpler version. I also experienced problems with the controller: the system was showing the wrong temperature value, and I thought this was due to the misoperatio…

  14.12.2018

• Movie Chitter-Chatter: Pride and Prejudice

• ITMO Rector Vladimir Vasilyev Appointed to Russian Science Foundation’s Supervisory Council

  …The Supervisory Council, headed by Presidential Advisor Andrei Fursenko, will operate in its new line-up for the next five years. In addition to ITMO University’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev, the Council’s staff now also includes: the director of the Special Astrophysical Observatory Yuri Balega, State Duma deputies Nikolai Govorin and Mikhail Emelyanov, the director of…

  13.12.2018

• On the Origin of Memes: Meme Scientist Explains Post-Irony and Future of Internet Culture

  …uality: I once took 10 random pictures from a few post-ironic meme communities and shuffled the captions between them. Users had a hard time telling the difference between the new ones and those that came before. Perhaps meta-irony is the next big thing. Here’s how to tell the difference: regular irony is saying “I’m a fool” while not actually being one. Post-iron…

  13.12.2018

• Microbial Fuel Cell, Space Station, and Electronic Guide: Finals of Quantoriada Competition

  …is that there’s only one patent in this field so far, which opens up lots of opportunities. It’s even more interesting for us this way, as we can try to come up with something new. Before launching into developing our prototype, we studied a lot of materials on the topic. Thanks to this research, we learned about what types of MFC are there and created our own. By…

  13.12.2018

• Techies Tell: Best Podcasts for Data Aficionados

  …ast a listen to find out! Partially Derivative  Every week, experienced technology and data scientists Chris Elbon and Jonathan Morgan get together to discuss the latest news in data analysis over a cup… of something, helping you stay on top of the newest developments in the field. The article was originally written in Russian …

  13.12.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 15-16

  …ovely tradition? Starting this Friday, December 14, the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, which is located in the Peter and Paul Fortress, hosts the Christmas and New Year Gifts Exhibition. Explore old Christmas-tree decorations, ornaments, candies, cards, sleds, skis, and children’s toys, as well as kids’ most wished-for presents under the Christmas tre…

  12.12.2018