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).
“Going once...going twice...sold,” said the auctioneer, as he pounded the gavel and the spectators gasped at Christie’s auction last week. Imagine, if you can, $450.3 million dollars – almost half a billion dollars – for Salvator Mundi, a painting by Leonardo da Vinci...
There can be no progress in life without transitions – the ability to move from one state to another. The transitions can be physical, emotional, intellectual, whatever. If not for evolution, Earth would be lifeless. Evolution is all about transitions in genetics...
As a scientist, I lived in a world of “How?” rather than “Why?” We may have strong feelings for the reason something works the way it does – why sickness strikes one person and not another, or why Dartmouth accepted Mary and not Joe – but the answer will remain...