January 28, 2025

Anti-Israeli demonstration in Amsterdam, November 2023. . Illustration: depositphotos.com

Interim Report: 50% of the Academic Boycott of Israel is Conducted Covertly

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Shmuel Ne'eman Institute researchers: Over 45% of reported boycott cases are carried out without an overt statement, and activity on campuses around the world has increased since the events of October 7, 2023 * The report is attached to this article
An artistic illustration of the brain's "speed limit" – we think, process, and decide at a slow rate of 10 bits per second. Credit: J. Zheng

The surprising limit to human thinking speed – only 10 bits per second

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The paradox is that sensory input processing is done at a speed 100 million times faster than the speed of thought * Principal Investigator: "At any given moment, we extract only 10 bits out of a trillion that our senses perceive and use."
The 'gardeners' of the reef. Four healthy sea urchin species on Reunion Island (Photo: Jean-Pascal Quod)

The Gardeners of the Sea Are Disappearing: Are Coral Reefs Facing Collapse?

The deadly parasite that destroyed sea urchins in Eilat has also spread to the Indian Ocean
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