Joram turned to writing following a successful career in science. To his surprise, the two have a lot in common. Joram's latest publication is a collection of short stories, Notes Going Underground. Additional publications include The Open Book and Other Tales of Love and Yearning (short stories), Jellyfish Have Eyes (novel), Gene Sharing and Evolution:
The Diversity of Protein Functions (non-fiction), and The Speed of Dark, a Memoir (non-fiction).
A recent conversation with Dr. John Mather — 2006 Nobel Laureate in physics for measuring the heat radiation from the Big Bang, and senior project scientist of the powerful Webb telescope launched by NASA — was thought-provoking and inspiring. … After thirty years in the making, the challenges didn’t end with its launch. Where would this infrared telescope be programmed to look first? The answer surprised me. … Where would you have looked first?
The noted columnist, George Will, commented in the recent Washington Post about the Webb telescope and its amazing potential to record the beginning of time. Traveling in space, the telescope is receiving “stretched” wavelengths of light from the origins of the...
A friend recently asked if I would ever buy a fully electric car like the Tesla. Ah, I do love new technology; if only it loved me…. The fantasy of owning a beautiful new electric car starts out so well…
“Wow, I love my new electric car. It’s a beauty. Is Elon a genius, or what? The dash isn’t cluttered with any messy gauges and graphs and stuff. Clean as a whistle. And, what a computer screen! Looks like Broadway in New York. And the pickup! Holy shit. It scares me. Mom goes nuts and hangs on for dear life….”