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• It’s Hard to Be a Superhero: Rector Vladimir Vasilyev Shares Some Life Tips

  …rsburg Polytechnic University and about his dreams to become a professor. The students listened to his story about how he was given a position to work at Stavropol Polytechnic Institute after completing his studies, about his first professional steps when he was working at ITMO University (then LITMO) and about chance in a person’s life. Here are some of the most mem…

  07.03.2017

• Bioinformatic Contest 2017: The Results

  …in bioinformatics. Both the contest's format and tasks are unique. "Until now, there weren't any bioinformatics contests in the world. There were only archives of tasks (for instance, there is such an archive on the Rosalind educational platform). Yet, on Rosalind, there are only tasks that imply a precise answer. We, on the other hand, decided on a different forma…

  07.03.2017

• American Scientist’s Experts on Scientific Standup Shows and Singing Dinosaurs

  …ience communicator. People constantly ask me about how I did it. As a microbiologist I was supposed to devote my life to science. I got a PhD degree and worked on a vaccine against HIV. I think my story on how to become a science communicator would be very informative. When I was a Master’s student, I understood that I was interested not only in science, but also …

  06.03.2017

• Gutenberg’s Lounge: Human-like Intelligence or a Spotless Mind?

  …Specialists of AI usually face such a statement — and some of them support this idea — as "It is impossible to create AI until one comprehends natural intelligence." For instance, over 40 years ago one famous scientist declared at a large conference on neurophysiology: "Just imagine that one has left a computer on Mars, then the Martians start studying this using the…

  06.03.2017

• Social Media Algorithm Says Trump "Tweets Like a Bachelor"

  …was reported at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco. In a rare fit of attention to scientific work, the findings were reported by a variety of mainstream media around the world, from the British Daily Mail and Independent, to Science News and New York Post. Beyond the celebrity appeal, the research can have a wide range of applicatio…

  06.03.2017

• City of the Stolovaya — a Culinary Journey Through St. Petersburg’s Greatest Dining Phenomenon

  …lovaya ever again. Well, either Russia has changed immeasurably since then, or I have — or both! — but the humble stolovaya is now my eating out option of choice. True, the institution has largely died out in Moscow, apart from the MuMu franchise, which is a pale and more expensive imitation. Property prices, competition from swish western-style chainstance, novice pilots train on simulators, and surgeons use mannequins. Mistakes cost lives to them, so educational games first started to develop in these two …

  03.03.2017

• Delicacy for Sportsmen- How to Eat Ice-Cream and Build Muscle

  …According to Malika Abdullaeva, senior assistant at the Department of Applied Biotechnology, her friend and fitness coach Victoria Sokolovskaya inspired her to create this alternative to protein cocktails. One of the steps of their training program included the process of getting shredded when they needed to go on a special diet: to reduce amount of calories and anim…

  03.03.2017

• Russia Is Better Protected Against Creationism than the USA

  …s in California and Texas, it turned out that they differ greatly in what has to do with both study hours dedicated to teaching evolution theory, and terminology, as well. For instance, while in California students are taught to accept evolution as a scientific fact, in Texas they are only given biodiversity as it's explained in Darwin's theory", explainstitutes, promote scientists or companies? I know that journalists don’t like to serve as promoters because their responsibility is to ask and investigate. They are not ready to repeat someon…

  02.03.2017