A Tough Choice
August 23rd, 2008Lately, 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.
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The Tantalum War
August 6th, 2008There’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.
Terminological Confusion
July 22nd, 2008A confocal microscope is one of the best applications that I know to the principle of spatial filtering.
Congratulations
July 9th, 2008The journal Scientific American published a review about one of my brother Asaf’s latest works. Read it here.
They Want My Money
July 8th, 2008Israel’s Broadcast Authority (Rashut Hashidur) got my address, finally.
An Ancient Explorer
June 27th, 2008I 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.
Inspiration
June 23rd, 2008Richard Feynman, once a great physicist and now a pop-industry icon, is largely considered the ‘founding father’ of nanotechnology.
Mechnikov
June 16th, 2008I 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.
Glass Production
June 11th, 2008Recently, I was a bit interested in the production process of glass. I happened to hear a talk from a representative of the Saint-Gobain glass company, who told me a bit about how they make glass.
Phylosophical Thoughts of Mingling Cultures
June 9th, 2008The Brazilian government published pictures of isolated Amazonian tribes. This issued a conversation in our lab: is it a good policy, to let those tribes stay isolated from the rest of the world? Read the rest of this entry »
