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Do you need some physics to go with your beads? Well, here it is. Actually, I will let you do the physics (for now - meaning if you don't analyze these, I will). Here are some pictures of a broken strand of beads. I hung them on my fence - you know, for display. Click the image to get a larger…
Written over a year ago, but only just coming to my attention, is Google engineer Jean-Baptiste Quéru's wonderful essay describing how no single person alive understands entirely what's going on in the machines we use daily. You just pressed a key on your keyboard. Simple, isn't it? What just…
Some of the best moments in my job as a Weizmann science writer are the times when a scientist I'm interviewing slips in a finding that shifts my understanding of how the world works. Not long ago, for instance, I was speaking with a researcher about his work on phytoplankton. Now, the fact that…
I put together this short presentation on fake videos for a class. What the heck, I will also put it online so that maybe some other people can use it. So, here it is. I have it in many forms. First, a video of me going through the talk. Then I have the keynote and PowerPoint files with the…