This summer, the Israel Museum has unveiled the fruits of its $100 million facelift. After two years of work to renew the structure, the country’s largest museum and most comprehensive collection of art in the Middle East now sports a new design. For the first time in history, the building has been made fully handicap-accessible. [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News, Philanthropy on August 21st, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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In Israel, a scientific team led by Prof. Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute has developed a device which makes use of sniff-sensing to allow the severely disabled to communicate and even steer their wheelchair. The device works by sensing changes in air pressure in the nostrils which translates these into electrical signals for writing [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on August 12th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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While therapeutic hypothermia, a relatively new cooling therapy, is more commonly used to prevent secondary injuries when blood rushes back into the heart, New York paramedics are being trained to use the treatment for emergency cardiac arrest cases. According to city officials, the use of this treatment has been shown to increase chances of survival [...]
Filed under: Community, Healthcare, News on August 10th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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The key to unlocking the secrets of the universe lies in the existence of one abstract form of matter. The Higgs Boson, more popularly known as the “God particle,” is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle thought to be responsible for the formation of the cosmos after the Big Bang. Scientists have been trying to [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on August 7th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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On March 20th, a 60-foot boat constructed of plastic soda bottles disembarked from the San Francisco bay area on an 11,000-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean. Aptly named Plastiki, the boat was the brainchild of banking heir and environmentalist, David de Rothschild. Four months later, on July 26th, the catarman finally docked at Sydney’s Darling [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on August 5th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: clean energy, communication, efficiency, Environment, innovation, success
An Israeli startup company recently won a prestigious technology award with a product that addresses a need that may sound trivial, but actually affects millions upon millions of computer users worldwide.
A program by Tel Aviv-based Soluto targets a widespread source of frustration – computer boot-up time – and earned a TechCrunch Disrupt award in the [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 6th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Natural gas companies have spent the better part of two decades exploring, mining, and expanding into new territory in order to bring in more and more of the commodity. Since the recession hit, however, prices have taken a huge dive. Most economists have attributed this fact to oversupply, leading many companies to halt exploration activities [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on September 18th, 2009 @ 6:04 pm
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BusinessWeek points to some compelling research published by the National Venture Capital Association that highlights the true impacts that Venture-backed startups are having on the US economy. The overall findings support the growing importance of the entrepreneurial system, which is exciting news for the industry as a whole and shoul help to provide insights into future [...]
Filed under: Business, News on September 18th, 2009 @ 9:15 am
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For all the talk about our diminishing attention spans, the reality is that attention isn’t so much going anywhere, as it going everywhere and there’s only so much to go around. We may be spending more time online than ever before, but now we’re tweeting, watching videos on YouTube and searching for the answers to [...]
No matter how successful a business gets, it’s important not to lose sight of the strategies that have taken you there. For most that involves building strong customer relationships and consistently delivering a great product or service. In recent months, eBay, the popular online auction house has veered from that path perhaps, but its CEO [...]
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.