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Terminological Confusion

July 22nd, 2008

A confocal microscope is one of the best applications that I know to the principle of spatial filtering.

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Congratulations

July 9th, 2008

The journal Scientific American published a review about one of my brother Asaf’s latest works. Read it  here.

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They Want My Money

July 8th, 2008

Israel’s Broadcast Authority (Rashut Hashidur) got my address, finally.

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An Ancient Explorer

June 27th, 2008

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.

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Inspiration

June 23rd, 2008

Richard Feynman, once a great physicist and now a pop-industry icon, is largely considered the ‘founding father’ of nanotechnology.

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Mechnikov

June 16th, 2008

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.

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Glass Production

June 11th, 2008

Recently, 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.

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Phylosophical Thoughts of Mingling Cultures

June 9th, 2008

The 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 »

Viral Infections

June 5th, 2008

I spent the last two days in Jerusalem, attending a nice conference that my advisor unexpectedly found two days earlier.

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A Few Pictures from Italy

May 4th, 2008

Just some pics from Italy

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