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• Gamified Education and Blockchain for IPs: Winners of Potanin Foundation’s Grant Competition

  … or explanation, and answer questions online. Completing the course, including the tests, will only require ten hours per week from the students, with ten weeks of studies in total. “The idea of combining the three elements (management, entrepreneurship, technologies) into one course came in stages. It was preceded by the development and implementation of variou…

  02.04.2019

• I Am a Professional: Over 80 ITMO Students Become Diplomates of National Student Competition

  …Land of Opportunities” with support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. This year, the competition was held for the second time. A total of 523,612 students submitted their applications, which is 78% more than the last year’s number of 295,000 participants. The number of educational tracks also increased, from 27 to 54. …

  29.03.2019

• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  …ia, China, Nepal, Bangladesh, and here in Russia. Still, in every country, they have their peculiarities. For example, dermatoglyphic testing in India and China is based on a totally wrong idea that there's a correlation between the complexity of patterns and development of particular areas of the brain. Still, no one cares to explain why it is the index finger that’…

  27.03.2019

• Augmented Reality Course at Oxford Brookes: Participants Share

  …hy. For example, while in Russia we have different canteens for students and staff, in Britain you can sit at the same table as your lecturer. Alena Jigalova: I got into a totally unexpected situation: for the first three days, I communicated with people and we worked as a team, joked and had tea together, and then I saw them giving lectures! And it turned out tha…

  21.03.2019

• Love, Death & Robots: Deadpool Director’s Love Letter to Nerds

  …at vibe,” recalls Tim Miller. Each episode was authored by a different animation studio who fashioned it as per their own vision and approach to content creating. In total, Love, Death & Robots was a product of teams hailing from 11 countries all over the globe. Among them are Unit Image, a high-end, France-based animation studio specializing in full CG and …

  21.03.2019

• Six Tips to Help You Navigate in Russia

  …e. If you’re invited to someone’s home, you should always bring something. Even if it’s not a super thoughtful gift, even if it’s something you wouldn’t eat yourself (I don’t totally agree with this philosophy but I’ve noticed it’s not the point), you should take something, usually something sweet that can be enjoyed while drinking tea. If it’s a housewarming, maybe …

  20.03.2019

• ITMO Students About Hackathon at National Center for Cognitive Technologies

  …ur initiatives is a series of hackathons for both Bachelor’s and Master’s students, as well as other projects.” It was students themselves who initiated the event. A total of 15 student teams partook in the hackathon, each consisting of two to five participants. They were offered five tasks on clustering, data classification, and other topics related to mach…

  13.03.2019

• Women in Science 2018

  …le Nobel Prize laureates: Donna Strickland, Frances Arnold, and Nadia Murad 2018 marked the first time when women received the Nobel Prize both in Physics and Chemistry. A total of three women made it to the list of Nobel laureates this year. Canadian scientist Donna Strickland became the first woman in 55 years and the third woman ever to win the Nobel Prize i…

  08.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 9-10

  …ers-high Maslenitsa scarecrow. Entrance is free. Maslenitsa fair and the biggest Maslenitsa scarecrow Yet another grand celebration will take place on Yelagin Island; a total of six sites throughout St. Petersburg’s main municipal park will offer all kinds of fun activities, from games and dances to rock music concerts, so everyone will definitely find somethin…

  06.03.2019

• Evolutionary Biologist David Seaborg: Science Enriches Our Lives with Fantastic Ideas and Discoveries

  …ore and more interdisciplinary, and in order to develop and move forward, pursuing "pure" chemistry, biology or physics is no longer enough. Do you agree with this? Yes, I totally agree. It is true that we need to break down problems down to simple components and specialize, to a certain extent, to get to the bottom of things. This is called reductionism. But ulti…

  04.03.2019