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Campus Festival: Why Data Science Is All Around Us And Why Memes Are Folklore?
Yet another Campus, a project that uses the city as a university educational festival, recently took place in St. Petersburg. Adherers of popular science gathered in nine bars across the city to enjoy lectures by both students and established scientists. The topics included moonflights , the structure of Earth, sunmobiles, transhumanism, the problems of modern communication, archeology and many others. ITMO.NEWS visited some of these lectures to find out why people confuse Big Data with statistics and why memes are so easy to remember.
02.11.2017
Blogger Boris Tsatsulin on Science Writing, Kamchatka and Memes
Four years ago, Boris Tsatsulin launched a channel on fitness and sports supplements; gradually, he expanded its scope to different fields of healthcare, nutrition, and sport: calories, macro- and microelements, the dangers of sugar and salt consumption and health care myth-busting. As of today, more than 120,000 people have joined his community on VK, and more than 275,000 watch his channel on YouTube. The author continues on with his project - recently, he's been to Kamchatka to gather more content for his blog, which he plans to develop while studying at ITMO's Science Communication Master's program. We've talked to Boris about the most successful formats and topics, clickbait headlines, criticism and other aspects of his work.
02.10.2017
Ig Nobel Prize And How It Contributes To Science
"Scientists have at last proved that cats are liquid!" - such ironic posts by cat lovers filled the Internet after the latest Ig Nobel prize awards. Surely, the Ig Nobel prize is often treated as a joke, yet it actually sets forth important questions, like what science is really about, and whom it should serve? Which research is important and which not? Does science leave any place for creativity, and can research be treated as useless only because it makes us laugh?
19.09.2017
BBC Expert: How to Make Science More Accessible
Julian Siddle, a BBC science journalist and the producer for BBC World Service and BBC Radio, has given a series of talks at Central Exhibition Hall Manege and ITMO University as part of the UK-Russia Year of Science and Education 2017. Speaking to the audience, he discussed the ways to explain gravity waves to children, why major discoveries often begin with the simplest questions and whether scientific content can compete with the social media’s top vloggers.
15.09.2017
Anna Krongauz, Editor of Popular Science Website N+1 On Science Writing And New Ethics
Popular science is becoming more and more in-demand by the modern society: science lectures gather audiences even on weekends. But does that mean that people are becoming more interested in science? Or does it happen because they see popular science as just source of entertainment? Anna Krongauz, the editor of popular science website N+1, discussed these issues in an interview with ITMO.NEWS. As she explains, not only does the public want to know more about science, but it is already unwittingly engaged in the discussion about the high-technology future. In short, our society is becoming all the more interested in popular science.
15.09.2017
Telegram For Geeks: Channels for Those Fond of Science
Telegram has long become one of the major information sources that provides its users with all kinds of news. What was once a typical messenger turned into a whole media universe with all the corresponding niches: it has channels on economy, politics, feminism, human rights, sex, education, music, fashion, movies and just everything modern media is about. We've decided to take a closer look at what it can offer in terms of Science.
23.08.2017
"In English, Please": De-Jargonizer Helps Make Science Accessible
Israeli scientists have developed software that can analyze a scientific article’s level of comprehensibility. The algorithm, named De-Jargonizer, separates words into three categories according to their frequency of use and, using a simple formula, determines how accessible the text will be to a wider audience. Having tested their software on articles from PLOS ONE, the scientists learned that the abstracts of some articles can consist of rare scientific terms by up to 27 percent. Developers hope that their program will help adapt texts to be more accessible to a majority of people.
21.08.2017
Cool Science: Why Science Communication Matters
Science communication is new to Russia, both as a concept and as a career field. Yet in just a few years a community of experts on the matter has formed here, and they are ready to start making science accessible to the larger society. Why does it matter? What are the main difficulties of this task? How can you innovate science communication? These are some of the questions that were asked at the launch of the new “Formula for Science PR 3.0” handbook – a collection of practices and expert opinions. The Moscow event was organized by Russian Venture Company’s Communication Lab, ITMO University and Association for Communication in Education and Science (AKSON)
09.08.2017
Starcon 2017: From Space Travel to 3D Printing
The largest Russian festival of science fiction, fantasy, film and science is going to be held for the 18th time on July 28 to 30. Over three days, the guests can visit booths and shops, take part in quests and attend lectures. ITMO University has set up its own booth in the Science section. Visitors will be able to repair a spaceship, become a space captain, learn to control light or use a 3D-printer.
28.07.2017
Second Day of Geek Picnic: Evolution, Rats and Superstition
How do humans fare in isolation, why do some believe in the supernatural or even see faces on the surface of Mars? Why does one need to understand the theory of relativity and what is a neurotheatre? The Geek Picnic festival has come to an end. Thousands of guests had the opportunity to attend dozens of venues, hear stories and news from the fields of science, gaming and technology and meet famous scientists and science writers, program their own chameleon-lamp and build a custom rocket. Read on to find out more about the things one could see, hear, taste and touch on the festival’s closing day.
26.06.2017