By Candice Mervis TEL AVIV — Professor Daniel Chamovitz is the director of the Manna Centre for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University and author of What a Plant Knows, a detailed look into how plants sense and deal with their environments. Chamovitz grew up in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, a small mill town. He was the […]
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Science, Medicine, & Education. By Chana Miller NEW YORK — A patient lies helpless in a hospital bed. His family surrounds him. The room is filled with tension. He has one chance to live. A bone marrow transplant can save his life but a genetic match is needed. In Petach Tikvah, Ezer Mizion’s International Jewish Bone Marrow Registry
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By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California —Many of the finest and most honest minds – conservative and liberal — in and out of academia have argued, and sometimes succeeded, that campus speech codes often cross the line to suppression of First Amendment freedom of speech. The excesses in the wording of such codes, their arbitrary and
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Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion by Steven Gimbel; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland; ISBN 978-1-4214-0554-4 ©2012, $24.95, p. 245, including endnotes, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — In 1922, a year after winning the Nobel Prize in physics for what we know today as
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By David Brin ENCINITAS, California — Remember where you were when you heard or read about this. It’s important. In a breakthrough effort for computational biology, the world’s first complete computer model of an organism has been completed, Stanford researchers reported last week in the journal Cell. A team used data from more than 900
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Moshe Silman is still in intensive care, at least four copycats have failed to immolate themselves alongside banks or government offices thanks to alert bystanders, politicians are accusing one another of being too soft on the Haredim or being too stubborn about one or another detail of what to do
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Ira Sharkansky, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy David Brin ENCINITAS, California–The future comes rushing upon us so quickly, already I worry that the world portrayed in my freshly minted novel will be old hat long before the time it is set, 30 years from now. (Meaning that we need futuristic and open-minded thought experiments now, more than ever.) Try these items
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Terrence C. Markin POTOMAC, Maryland — I worry that we may be on the verge of pushing another young Jew away from our faith. This saddens me more than I can say. She is my daughter. I remember vividly taking her to services as a baby and bringing her to Hebrew School at the
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Yoel Ganor JERUSALEM — My wife, Orly, and I recently returned to Israel after having completed a multi-city trip in the United States performing workshops for Hebrew-language educators. We espouse a new approach to teaching the Jewish People’s ancient language, one that draws heavily on new technology and unconventional techniques. The Hebrew language is a
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy J.J. Surbeck SAN DIEGO –Quick! Don’t think (and don’t cheat with your calculator or your cell phone either)! How much is 3×7? 160/4? 6×7? 300+858?* If you belong to the generation that learned multiplication tables in school, you probably had no problem doing these elementary calculations. But if you belong to the younger
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy David Brin ENCINITAS, California –Why freedom of the press concerns us all. Nick Cohen of Standing Point Magazine (UK) does a detailed retrospective and appraisal of my book The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? He examines how far we have gone in the directions that I discussed, suggested….
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Although a precedent-setting prostate surgery occurred in New York City, the setting for much of the story is San Diego, where the doctor grew up and the mother of the patient resides. The doctor is Herbert Lepor who on October 31, 2011, performed a radical prostatectomy–the removal of
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & EducationEL CAJON, California (Press Release) — Students in classrooms across the Grossmont College campus will be discussing Silent Spring, the book credited with helping to launch the environmental movement of the 1960s, during the 2012-2013 academic year. Grossmont College will be participating with five regional universities and several organizations in a collaboration studying similar themes from
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The United States has the least centralized government, with the strongest norms in behalf of individual freedom among well-to-do democracies. Among its detailed traits are –Variations in public policy between states and localities –Commendable indications of research and innovation in science, medicine, and technology –High flow of immigrants–not all of them legal–seeking individual
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