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Baruch Sterman

Baruch Sterman is the author of The Rarest Blue, detailing the history and science of tekhelet, the ancient biblical blue dye lost to history and rediscovered… [More]
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March 22, 2013
10:20 am

Anti-Kosher

Keeping kosher is not a simple matter – particularly if you travel. A day of meetings fueled only by cups of coffee culminates in the airport with a bag......

January 31, 2013
7:00 am

Innovation, or nothing new under the sun

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. -- (Ecclesiastes 1:9) One of the courses that......

January 18, 2013
6:31 am

Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

“It’s obvious from the bloated stomach and the advanced state of decomposition, that this body has been dead for between 16 and 18 days.” That kind of pronouncement is......

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January 10, 2013
6:46 am

Plunging into life

I can’t imagine doing what my son Yair recently did. Bungee jumping off a bridge over an Ecuadorian gorge hundreds of feet deep is incomprehensible to me. I could......

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January 1, 2013
8:59 pm

Saying goodbye to Nili

Last week we said goodbye to our baby. Well, technically she was never “our” baby, but for nearly five incredible months Nili (not her real name), a beautiful, delicate-featured......

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December 26, 2012
7:12 am

Iron Man, Archimedes, and Iron Dome

Last night I watched the movie Iron Man with my son Eyal. I love that film – not only for the great action, but also for the quick dialogue......

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December 25, 2012
1:12 pm

A Religious Scientist

As far back as I can remember, I always loved science. I would read popular books on different science-related topics like Isaac Asimov’s essays or Broca’s Brain by Carl......