On my regular scan of scientific magazines, I bumped into nature‘s Evolution Gems (also accessible from here).
This is part of their 150-anniversary celebration of the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species. The idea is to give some tools to those that still debate about the theory of evolution – a good cause, and they ask to distribute it – so here I do.
Lately, Elina and I began to study photography. Nothing too serious, just one of those things that we wanted to do and postponed over and over until we finally got to it.
There’s a war going on. Actually, the worst war since WWII. Up till now, it is lasting for over a decade, involves the armies of over 8 different countries, and have already costed the lives of over 50 million people.
A confocal microscope is one of the best applications that I know to the principle of spatial filtering.
The journal Scientific American published a review about one of my brother Asaf‘s latest works. Read it here.
Israel’s Broadcast Authority (Rashut Hashidur) got my address, finally.
I was reading a bit about marine archaeology (I have this bizarre habit, to read peculiar things), when I encountered the name Pytheas of Masillia, and the thrilling story of this person’s life.
Richard Feynman, once a great physicist and now a pop-industry icon, is largely considered the ‘founding father’ of nanotechnology.
I was reading about the patriarchs of modern biology and medicine when I found out about Ilya Mechnikov, the Russian who discovered Phagocytes (which earned him half of the 1908 nobel prize in medicine). Then I read a bit about the biography of this great scientist (he worked with Pasteur!), and found that he had had a very interesting life.
