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• More than ESP: Teaching English with Digital and Print Content

  …rchy of six thought processes, which are: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Each level gets a set of verbs to go along with it. For instance, the first level, remembering, uses tasks that start with the words “remember”, “repeat”, “list”, “name”, “learn”, etc. The second level – understanding – is achieved through explanati…

  10.04.2018

• Researchers Use Nanoparticles to Study Proteins at High Temperatures

  …periments on silicon and germanium nanoparticles, up to 100-200 nanometers in size. We placed the nanoparticles on a gold film and used this nanostructure to find out how proteins function under extreme conditions, namely when heated by intense light.” To obtain information about the proteins’ temperature and state, the researchers…

  10.04.2018

• VK’s Head of Growth and Research On Delegating Routine Tasks to AI

  … times bigger, and the algorithms predicting the users’ interests – even more efficient. However, every ecosystem, in our case - a content ecosystem, has its downsides. For instance, authors try to outwit the algorithms. I am talking about getting “fast” likes, etc. We battle this problem regularly so that the users’ feeds show what is truly important. What…

  10.04.2018

• St. Petersburg Off the Beaten Track

  … and feel the vibe of the old times, or just hop on a train to Pushkin or Pavlovsk and take a stroll in a park. Zagorodny Prospect, 52, St. Petersburg, Russia Metro Pushkinskaya/ Zvenigorodskaya 4. Try the Biggest Milkshake and the Best Coffee in St. Petersburg Mickey & Monkeys If you are a sweet tooth, consider yourself lucky because we've got just th…

  10.04.2018

• Startups Present Eye-Treatment Neural Network, Physical Therapy Globe at FT Startup Drive

  …Simple education This service can be used by educational institutions to track their students’ attendance rates, inform parents of missed classes and notify students about schedule changes  or special events. Administrative workers can keep track of everything online and use the service to compile reports. The developers have already conducted a survey and found o…

  09.04.2018

• Learning Russian and Making Movies: a Finn's Exchange Semester at ITMO University

  … the professors often go into the fundamentals and theory. In Finland, we often work on projects, and the system encourages self-study; we seldom have direct answers and rigid instructions.  This approach has both advantages and disadvantages. For instance, if I couldn’t understand something, I may never get a chance to, and the traditi…

  09.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …rsity and Climate Research Center, Goethe University and the University of Lund in Sweden have deciphered the complete genome of the blue whale and three other rorquals. These insights now allow tracking the evolutionary history of the worlds' largest animal and its relatives in unprecedented detail. Surprisingly, the genomes show that rorquals have been hybridizing …

  08.04.2018

• ITMO Celebrates 404 Day with Festival of Street Art

  …(Lyuba also creates music under the name DITA REDRUM), whose works can be seen on many of the city’s streets. In her drawing she depicted a young woman who, as the artist explains, is the soul of the internet. “My works are almost exclusively all portraits; most of the time, they are female, as I prefer to work with female beauty,” – she says. Lyuba isn…

  06.04.2018

• VR/AR Association & ITMO University Spring Kickoff: Trends and Philosophy of Virtual Reality

  …n employment, as the Association works with companies like Google, GoPro, Microsoft and others. Members also get access to major business publications such as Forbes, Business Insider and the like. You can participate in various affiliated events, too; the biggest among them is the global VR/AR summit which will take place in Vancouver in September,” – commented Mich…

  05.04.2018

• Wastebake Project: Smart Recycling

  … simply throw the leftovers away, which is even worse than turning them into animal feed. It would be way more efficient to reuse waste to create products with high profit margins. What is the issue with bakery waste in Russia? In Russia, a significant portion of produced bread is discarded as waste. Grocery stores order more bread than they can sell, it go…

  05.04.2018