Out of Work? Here’s Some Practical Advice for Dealing with Long Stretches of Unemployment
Jobs aren’t always easy to come by and even harder to hold on to in today’s hyper-competitive work force. I know it–and you probably know it too. While I’m fluent…
Dealing with and Overcoming Internet Addiction
So I set out to research this new, mostly-unexplored phenomenon and discovered a world hereto unknown to me. Keep the following two points in mind while reading this: 1) If an activity doesn’t help you progress on a personal/career level, there’s no reason for engaging in it. 2) If you know that you have a short attention span and get carried away with destructive activities, that, may be in itself reason enough to at limit Internet consumption.
Top 7 Job Sites in Israel
I’m looking for a new career opportunity after a Copywriter position in Tel-Aviv ran its course. While I have 10+ years of experience, speak fluent English, Hebrew and Russian, am a…
Digital Printing on Glass for Environmentally Friendly Architecture
An Israeli company based in Kfar Sava has developed the only system in the world for digitally printing on glass using highly durable ceramic inks. With a click of the…
Guided Museum Tours from Your Own Smartphone
Anyone who has ever tried to use one of those huge handsets that most museums rent for audio tours will appreciate what the Israeli company Espro Acoustiguide brought to the…
Saving Lives in Emergency Situations
Emergency response time during critical situations is a problem faced all over the world. Whether it’s a hostage crisis where a victim in hiding needs a quiet way to alert…
Waste Not, Want Not—Sell Your Old iPhone
Who doesn’t want the latest version of Smartphones or iPhones that hit the market? And what about the iPad you fell in love with when you ordered it last year?…
A GPS Enabled Watch Safeguards Young Children
Any parent knows the fear of a young child wandering off and getting lost, which can happen in a split second. Forever etched in my memory is the panic I…
Social Networking Data Powers Anti-Social App
Although it is a bit small, Israel is a very social country. While taking a walk on the city streets or hiking a trail, you can meet long lost friends…
Tel Aviv’s Love of Selfies
It could be that residents of Tel Aviv are just happy people or possibly oozing with self-confidence, but now there is actual data proving their commitment to sharing their personal…
Cough, Sneeze, Tissue Please
If you wake up in the morning with a cough and the sniffles, should you go to work and take a chance of passing an illness on to your co-workers?…
Happy Cows Produce More Milk
It must be one of the best-kept secrets in Israel that most of the dairy farmers in Israel are equipped with an undergraduate degree in the field! Maybe a high degree of education is typical of other countries’ farmers, but not in Kansas, where I grew up.
Making the Best of a Fatty Situation to Build New Bone
Having extra body fat isn’t always an advantage to your health, but Israeli researchers at Bonus BioGroup have found one exceedingly good use for it. In their lab in Haifa,…
Collaborating for a Cure
Cancer remains a present day scourge of the earth as it continues to inflict pain, suffering and even death to individuals across nations without partiality to race, age or…
Israeli Technology Brings Instant 3D Playbacks
Enjoying the pub scene and watching the game live on the big screen, one of them made the comment that he’d like to see the game from the perspective of the ball. The idea was hatched on the back of a napkin and two years later, the system they developed is being used around the world for for instant 3D playbacks.
Watch Out For Exploding Stars!
Since then, new research in Israel has been developed that can alert us to the next time an interstellar catastrophe is in the making. This research, conducted by Eran Ofek and his staff from the Weizmann Institute of Science, uncovered a little known secret about our universe.
Never Seen Before Undersea Light Show Amazes Scientists
“There’s a whole light show going on down there, and people never see it.” A green biofluorescent chain catshark (Scyliorhinus retifer). Scientists already knew that some marine organisms fluoresce, including corals and jellyfish, but the NSF-funded study, The Covert World of Biofluorescence is the first reported evidence of widespread biofluorescence among fishes.
Professor Arnon Karnieli from Ben-Gurion U. Ranked Amongst the Top 20 Researchers Worldwide in the Field of Scientometrics
According to an article posted recently in a leading magazine in the Scientometrics field, Professor Arnon Karnieli from Ben-Gurion University is ranked amongst the top 20 leading researches in the world in the field of remote sensing.Scientometrics is a science dealing in the measurement and evaluation of information with the help of different methods.
Secret Lives of Field Mice Caught on Camera
Did you ever wonder what goes in the social life of a mouse? Or how mice suffering from autism and other neuropsychiatric disorders manage their lives? I don’t suppose many…
What We Can Learn from Worms
What began as research on the lowly worm has ended up amazing scientists and medical professionals with a possible cure for neurodegenerative disease. An Israeli startup company, TyrNovo, is collaborating with Hebrew University researchers to develop a potential treatment for such diseases of the brain as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s.
Dream Come True for the Blind
What more could a blind person want than to be able to see? An amazing invention is aimed at doing just that. Bar-Ilan University’s Professor Zeev Zalevsky created a contact…
Altair Semiconductor Chosen as Leader in LTE Chipsets
Israeli company Altair produces LTE (long term evolution) 4G chips were recognized as the best thing out there when its product, FourGee, won the title of “Best Chipset/Processor Product” at…
Controlling Home Appliances with Hand Gestures Coming Soon
Last week, it was only a well-founded rumor, but this week it’s official. Apple is acquiring the Israeli company, PrimeSense for some $345 million. Why? Not only because it’s a great company that developed the motion-detecting game console, Kinect, but Apple is interested, as in VERY interested, in PrimeSense’s ability to map 3D spaces. PrimeSense is best known for the controls it developed for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console, but its solutions are also adaptable to iRobot’s Ava, Asus Xtion and 3D scanners.
Meet the Winners of the Dev4Dev Cleanweb Hackathon
Last Thursday and Friday, November 14-15, some very cool techies met at the “Dev4Dev Cleanweb Hackathon” at the Google Campus Tel Aviv with one goal—to develop apps that would change…
Big Buck Exits in Israel’s Hi Tech
Remember when we reported that Google was planning to buy the Israeli traffic app Waze for a sum close to $1 billion? That was undoubtedly a huge sum of money for an Israeli startup, but it turns out that there have been many other successful exits this year.