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The 'fake' element is everywhere: in the news, in science, in high-tech, in relations between people, relations between countries et...

  I've always wanted to visit the islands of  Ikaria (Greece) and Sardinia (Italy) - the 'Blue Zones' (zones of high life expect...

Wars are stupid and cruel, yet sometimes, so it would seem, inevitable. On 25 April we commemorated Remembrance Day (Yom Hazikaron) for isra...

When a famous, admired person (a celebrity) dies, people feel sadness coupled with envy. Sadness -  because  when he/she dies it is  as if a...

Usually, I'm not eager to go  on a cruise, as I might get sea sick . While on a bus or train I refrain from reading, as I might get a fe...

  There's a dog statue near the entrance of a Vetcenter in an adjacent town. Whenever I'm around,  I stop to have a look at it. It i...

  She's beautiful, bright (physicist researcher at Weizmann Institute, Israel, and at Cern accelerator project, Switzerland), basketball...

  Kiwi is an exotic, tasty fruit, packed with vitamin C and antioxidants. I like the flavor and its texture. The point is it doesn't lik...

L ately, I've been busy with my desktop computer. Its internal DVR wasn't working, so I had to take the whole thing to the Lab. In o...

  In  Hebrew, the word 'balagan' means mess, chaos, disorder.  There's controversy about the word's origin (Russia? Turkey?....

The other day, I bought a few small items and got unpleasantly surprised by the price I had to pay.  It added to my gloomy mood I was in sin...

On  Sunday, we were told a storm named Barbara was on its way  from Greece to Israel, and will hit us on Monday morning.   In the meantime, ...

  I've always considered climate as an important factor that affects one's well-being and quality of life. (  long before the discus...

No bones, no skulls, no skeletons, no pottery, but silk and cotton . A few hundred pieces of exotic textile from 1300 years ago, has been ...