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Anti-Kosher

Baruch Sterman — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:20:33 +0000

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 of Market Fresh (or not so fresh) carrots. And so, stomach rumbling, you begin to reflect on why you adhere to this diet-constricting lifestyle. There are [...]

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Innovation, or nothing new under the sun

Baruch Sterman — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:00:54 +0000

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 I took during my first semester in grad school at Columbia Engineering was an introduction to lasers. The professor was a world-renowned expert in free-electron lasers [...]

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Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Baruch Sterman — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:31:32 +0000

“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 exactly what “H” might say on a typical CSI episode, with overly dramatic pauses thrown in for effect and the all-important removal of the sunglasses just [...]

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Plunging into life

Baruch Sterman — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:46:11 +0000

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 barely muster the courage to accompany my younger son, Gilad, on “Treetop Adventures” near Turtleback Zoo in New Jersey. Balancing on a rickety bridge just a [...]

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Saying goodbye to Nili

Baruch Sterman — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:59:58 +0000

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 newborn baby girl lived with us, until last week when she was officially adopted by her new family. For whatever reason, her biological mother was unable [...]

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Iron Man, Archimedes, and Iron Dome

Baruch Sterman — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 05:12:05 +0000

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 and Tony Stark’s wry, sharp banter. At one point, a young liberal reporter corners Stark and challenges him on the morality of being a weapons manufacturer. [...]

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A Religious Scientist

Baruch Sterman — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:12:43 +0000

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 Sagan. My favorite movie was The Andromeda Strain and I dreamed about working in a high-tech laboratory with lasers and test-monkeys and vacuum-sealed air locks. The [...]

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