Beyond our Eyes

Sometimes the most mysterious things of all are those we take entirely for granted. For example, most people don’t stop to think about the fact that we use mathematics to accurately describe and interpret our universe. For example, you see an apple sitting on the…

Rational Giving

The year 1928 was a fateful one in medicine, as it saw the discovery of a drug that saved more people than any other in history: penicillin. However, although penicillin has saved millions of lives, the antibiotic era is rapidly drawing to a close. Many…

Lesson of the Small

Many of the new technologies recently developed in communications, agriculture and biotech raise some troubling ethical and sociological issues, and sometimes generate intense public controversy. One such field, nanotechnology, is generally unknown to the public, but has the potential to have a deep and irrevocable…

Low Crime Wave

Over the last twenty years, residents of New York City have enjoyed an unprecedented reduction in crime – the greatest decline of any major city in the developed world. Over two decades, murders, robbery and burglary fell over 80%. In the late 80’s, most criminologists…

No More Brain Drain

The Israeli media has lately expressed much concern over the Israeli “brain drain” – the continued emigration of academics from Israel to greener pastures in other countries. Recently the Israeli government has taken steps to stanch the flow. The plan is to establish “Centers of…

A Spiritual Healer

Dr. Eliyahu Sorkin was born in Paris without the slightest knowledge about his Judaism. When he turned thirteen, he asked his parents to make him the ceremony in church that his peers had when they were thirteen. “My classmates would have a priest come and…