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Category Archives: Research
Podcast: Museum of The Future (Part 1/2)
This is the first part of the podcast on the museum of the future with participation of Mariann Raisma, director of the University of Tartu History Museum, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, head of the University of Tartu’s Department of Journalism and Communication and Agnes Aljas, a doctoral student at the University of Tartu and Research Secretary at the Estonian National Museum. Continue reading
Posted in General, Research, Social sciences
Tagged future, future museum, history museum, museum, visitor
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Tartu Students on a Moon Mission
About 200 students from 19 universities across Europe are working hard to get a satellite into lunar orbit in 2014. After launch the University of Tartu students will be in charge of steering the satellite into lunar orbit and ensuring that it stays there. Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Student life
Tagged ESMO, Estcube, Moon, satellite, student project
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The Afghanistan Mission Strains Body Like a Marathon
Serving a 6-month mission in Afghanistan showed similar effects on Estonian soldiers’ health as running a marathon. Continue reading
How Risky Is It for Kids to Be Online?
A new study by the EU Kids Online research network, based on interviews with 23,000 children and their parents across Europe, shows that more than one in eight 9–16-year-old children have been bothered or upset by online content.
Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden and the Czech Republic comprise the countries where children were more at risk online, with Italy, Portugal and Turkey showing the least risk. Continue reading
What Makes Some Drivers Speed?
Reasons as to why some drivers tend to exceed speed limits constantly and why some are prone to drunk driving are entirely different, a study by UT researchers suggests.
In both cases the underlying causes can be attributed to the person’s impulsivity and tendency to seek excitement. However, whereas a drunk person decides to sit behind the steering wheel without considering the potential consequences of his or her actions, speeders tend to be very aware of what they are doing. Continue reading
Posted in Research, Social sciences
Tagged behaviour, driving, drunk, prevention, risk, serotonin, speeding
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From +34°C in India to -32°C in Estonia
This is a story of the first Indian student to have defended his PhD thesis in Molecular Biology at the University of Tartu. Gyaneshwer Chaubey arrived to Estonia on a cold and dark day in January 2006, his supervisor was waiting for him with two enormous jackets. Continue reading
The Rich Tend To Be Less Religious
A recently published study found that 84 percent of people consider religion to be an important part of their daily lives. A strong relationship exists between a country’s socioeconomic status and the religiosity of its residents – the richer the country, the less important religion is to its population. However, there are some exceptions, including Estonia. Continue reading