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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/past-present-future-perfect
May 1, 1998
In May 1948, a young scientist named Dr. Ephraim Katzir arrived at the gates of the Weizmann Institute. Interface recently asked Katzir to articulate how he views the Institute's present and future from a personal, 50-year perspective. Children on summer vac...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/state-chart
May 1, 1998
It is unusual for theoretical mathematicians to indulge in brain surgery, and certainly not recommended without prior training. "I was trying to open up engineers' skulls and mess around to see how they think." The accent here is on "see." Thus, the Statecharts visual language wa...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/taking-dis-out-disability
May 1, 1998
When creative minds work together day-by-day and side-by-side, they just can't help but brainstorm creative solutions for the rest of us. In this instance, a group of Weizmann Institute professionals are quietly revolutionizing the field of products for the physically...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/science-chutzpah
May 1, 1998
"Physics comes in handy anytime, anywhere, because physics teaches you chutzpah." That was one of the opening sentences Jacob Guedalia heard at the Weizmann Institute while on his first interview. "In physics, you step up to the universe and say, 'I know nothing about...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/sting
May 1, 1998
Caveat: Don't be taken in by size. That's the rather pointed message delivered courtesy of the cone snail. Though small, its venom has a deadly, zooming-in quality that makes these creatures especially noxious. Dr. Michael Fainzilber of the Biological Chemistry Department is...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/weizac-days
May 1, 1998
This is a birth of the State of Israel story, and with it, the birth of the computer, and computer technology. It sounds more like a fairy tale or at the very least, a stretch of the imagination. But when you think about it, this country -- and this Institute -- are base...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/brain-drain-brain-gain
October 1, 2001
Wise people learn from the experience of others, but such wisdom is rare. Most of us learn only from our own successes... and failures (which of course is why the irksome 'I told you so' will most likely never gather dust). But how does such learning take pla...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/heres-lookin-you
October 1, 2001
Sensing the growing shadow, it slithered away from its enemy, propelling itself with rapid, snakelike arm movements. Sounds like yet another episode in nature's daily drama of survival, but there's a puzzling catch - this creature doesn't have eyes. Cousin to the sea...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/genetic-loops
October 1, 2001
Chop it up, unzip it, make numerous copies of it in less than an hour, or even edit it, slipping in a trait for, say, bacterial resistance or insulin production. Seems like there's no end to the stuff one can do nowadays to DNA. And future aims are no less extraordinary, like the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/plants-tell-it-it
October 1, 2001
About 6.5 billion tons of carbon are spewed into the Earth's atmosphere every year as carbon dioxide, or CO2 - the greenhouse gas believed to be largely responsible for global warming. Of this, some 1.5 billion tons dissolve in the ocean, but 2 billion additional tons are re...
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