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).
The butterfly effect – very small events having a major effect on seemingly unrelated major events at a later date – is hard to appreciate fully due to the apparent lack of connection between the happenings. The term was coined by Edward Lorenz drawing from a...
Remote? What’s That? Last week I was in Paamiut, and Qaqortoq, two villages in Greenland, the biggest island in the world with a total population as meager as 56,000. The inhabitants are confined to dots of settlements around the coast, leaving inland blanketed with...
When I peeled myself away from the beautiful fjords in Flateyri in northern Iceland, I discovered a slice of magic on main street: a bookstore established in 1914, owned and run by one family for its entire existence. It was an unexpected step back in time and an invitation to reflect. …