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• Mythbusters: Uncovering Truths About Water

  Vitamin-enriched, magnetized, eco, detox… these are the “types” of water you’ll see recommended online. Sometimes, it’s even endowed with memory or charged with a special energy. In this ITMO.NEWS article, we turned to Denis Baigozin, a researcher at ITMO and the head of the Chemistry Center at the Presidential Lyceum 239, to learn the truth about water chemistry and bust some of the most popular myths about it.

  20.08.2024

• Vaccines: Everything You Need to Know

  Recent years have seen an uptick in discussions concerning vaccines, their efficiency, and their safety. What are their side effects? Are there legitimate reasons to refuse them? How and why did the anti-vax movement form? The pediatrician Nikolai Komov, a proponent of evidence-based medicine and expert for Babyblog, answered these and other questions during the lecture “Vaccines: Conspiracy or Vision?” at the Mayakovsky Library.

  09.09.2019

• 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