TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― In life, we’re told, we must take the good with the bad, and how we view these life events determines our well-being and ability to adjust. But according to Prof. Dov Shmotkin of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Psychology, you need more than the right attitude to successfully negotiate the vicissitudes […]
HAIFA (Press Release)–Prof. Michal Yerushalmy has been awarded the International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE) award (known as “the Eddies”) for excellence in design of educational products and materials in science or mathematics. The award and $10,000 prize was given to Prof. Yerushalmy for Visual Math, a curriculum developed through a rigorous
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Alex Kajitani, 2009 California Teacher of the Year, comes to Soille Hebrew Day this Monday October 11 to educate its teachers during the afternoon and then at 7:30 pm at night to inspire the community about how parents can partner with teachers to “end the silent conspiracy” and motivate our children to communicate. Do you need
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Prescription drugs and their dosages may be standardized, but not every patient reacts to a medicine in the same way. The personal genetic characteristics of individuals and populations can explain why a specific prescription successfully treats one patient and not another, so medical researchers are adopting the new approach called “personalized
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)–Optical gyroscopes, also known as rotation sensors, are widely used as a navigational tool in vehicles from ships to airplanes, measuring the rotation rates of a vehicle on three axes to evaluate its exact position and orientation. Prof. Koby Scheuer of Tel Aviv University’s School of Physical Engineering is now scaling down
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HAIFA (Press Release)–Researchers at the Institute of Archaeology from the University of Haifa excavating at Tel Shikmona have exposed magnificent mosaics dating back to the Byzantine Period (sixth century C.E.), which were part of an ecclesiastic structure. The excavations are taking place as part of a project funded by the Hecht Foundation, to expand the
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Agency for Jewish Education has announced the lineup of its Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies, a new lecture series in Carlsbad. Lawrence Baron, SDSU, will kickoff the monthly series. Baron’s lecture will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on Oct. 18 at 7:00 pm. His lecture
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HAIFA (Press Release)–The exploration vessel Nautilus, with a team of experts of the University of Haifa’s Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, headed by Prof. Zvi Ben Avraham, discovered for the first time an area of reefs with deep-sea corals in the Mediterranean, offshore of Israel. This area apparently stretches over a few kilometers,
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Jeanette Friedman ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey — About a week before I covered the Clinton Global Initiative in Manhattan, I read the galley proofs for Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff. Rushkoff has written lots of books about how our lives are affected by computers and marketing, corporations and the
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Science, Medicine, & EducationLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –Artists Taking Action, J*Company Youth Theatre’s teen community service organization, announced on Friday, Oct. 1, that it is teaming up with Canyon Crest Academy and La Costa Canyon’s Improv Clubs for a show to raise funds enabling students of the Monarch School to attend future J*Company musical theater shows. The ATA Comedy Improv
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Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release)― When the scientific and spiritual worlds collide, they do so in the most surprising ways. Classical meteorological and plant science has, in the last century, insisted that dew negatively affects plant life, leading to rot and fungus. But in the Judeo-Christian tradition, dew is most welcomed as an important source of
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Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release) – About ten years ago, the discovery of microRNAs ― tiny cellular molecules that regulate our genetic code ― unlocked a world of scientific possibilities, including a deeper understanding of human disease. One new analytical technology is “deep sequencing,” which gives scientists the ability to discover invaluable information about human diseases at
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Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release)–Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere ― ten times denser than the atmosphere of Earth. Five years ago, the Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, sent a probe through Titan’s atmosphere, revealing that Titan is
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Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Used in a variety of products from credit cards to satellite televisions, secure chips are designed to keep encoded data safe. But hackers continue to develop methods to crack the chips’ security codes and access the information within. Thinking like hackers, Prof. Avishai Wool and his Ph.D. student Yossi Oren
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