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Beer and Science 2
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on July 30, 2011
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One Thursday evening near the end of July, people sitting outside a local ice cream parlor watched a neurobiology Ph.D. student wave his hand in front of his face in imitation of a robot learning to sense itself as separate from its surroundings. Despite the trains arriving at the station in the background and the…
Mixing Beer and Science
Posted by Weizmann Science Writer on August 1, 2010 Are quantum physics more intelligible after a beer or two? That might be an illusion, but you wouldn’t know it from the enthusiastic crowd who packed a Rehovot restaurant/pub last Thursday evening to hear a talk on the subject given by one of the Weizmann Institute’s research students. Even those imbibing out on the tiny,…