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Nir Lahav

Demonstration of opponents of the coup in Haifa, May 27, 2023. Illustration: depositphotos.com

How reasonable is the probable cause?

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In light of claims from readers as if we are citing the various objections to the legislation (for example, by the university presidents' committee) without citing the reasons of the other side, Nir Lahav wrote an article that brings the claims from the sides of the legislation and the opposing reasons, which show that the supporters at best did not think the issue through before voting
Soldiers patrolling the Western Wall, May 21, 2018. Illustration: depositphotos.com Illustration: depositphotos.com

Rationality is dead! Long live populism

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This week's decision to cancel the status of the women's lobby brought to attention the difference between those who take a rational position and populists who are based mainly on shouting and subjugation
The late Prof. Yosef Agassi. From Wikipedia

The Israeli philosopher Professor Yosef Agassi passed away close to his 95th birthday

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Agassi was born and grew up ultra-Orthodox and left the religion in adolescence. Considered the senior philosopher in Israel and was a student of Karl Popper. He asked to change the nationality on the identity card from Jewish to Israeli and was refused
Human rights. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A summary of the history of the West - the values ​​of the modern era, part XNUMX

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In the 18th century, the process of turning monarchies into democracies began, but it still took many years for blacks and women to get basic rights
Knesset. There must be an authority that audits the Knesset and the government, so that they pass laws that do not contradict the fundamental laws. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A summary of the history of the West - the values ​​of the modern era, part one

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All over the world, including in Israel, there seems to be a wave of populist governments that oppose what are known as Western values ​​- freedom, equal opportunities and globalization (of which science is one of the successful examples). Nir Lahav reviews the development process of these values ​​and why they are threatened now
Consciousness at the molecular level. Image: depositphotos.com

The negated connection between quanta and consciousness

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A new article did an interesting experiment related to quantum theory and the study of consciousness. The results show that one of the well-known theories that claims that consciousness is created as a result of quantum measurement, is probably not true.
The power to say no! Hamburg 1936 Celebrations in honor of a new ship. The circled man does not do the well-known Nazi trick. The man's name is August Landmesser who was sentenced to two years of hard labor for marrying a Jewess. He chooses not to follow the consensus and the enthusiastic crowd.

Holocaust Day: Is man's nature evil from his youth? And maybe better than his youth?

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Following the Holocaust, studies were conducted in social psychology that shed light on the human being and raise a well-founded fear that we have very destructive tendencies. But does this mean that man's creation is indeed bad? Does the human race have hope?
A briefing for German soldiers in 1933. From a vintage card attached to cigarette packs. The main entrance to the Auschwitz 1 extermination camp, Poland. Image: depositphotos.com

How do you prevent phenomena like the Holocaust from happening again?

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Experiments show that we are very submissive when there is a social consensus and we will change our decisions according to this agreement, even if we know that the majority is wrong, that these tendencies are deeply ingrained in man. So is it even possible to prevent phenomena like the Holocaust from happening again in the future?
Quantum computing. Illustration: shutterstock

The war for power - the XNUMXs version

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An illustration incorporating the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy - the first imaged by astronomers. Illustration: shutterstock

Why is photographing the black hole such a special event?

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Illustration: pixabay.

To understand the abilities of consciousness with the help of brain research

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What is the matrix we live in? Image: pixabay.

Einstein - the man who started to take us out of the matrix (part 3): there are gravitational waves!

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The debate is over. None of the religions. Photo: shutterstock

Meaning in a rational world

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Processing of one of the images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in ultraviolet radiation. Note the light blue structures that protrude from the surface of Europa's moon into space (at the bottom of the moon on the left side, 7 o'clock). Further tests revealed that these were most likely water eruptions from the surface of the moon.

Is there life on the moon Europa?

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There is no specific area in the brain that is responsible for conscious perception - there is no homunoculus. Image: Wikimedia.

Where is the soul bird? New Israeli research is looking for the conscious network of the brain

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Image from the music video for the song Blackstar. David Bowie as a priest who offers a new religion, the Black Star book for the weird and the unusual.

David Bowie - The Man Who Fell to Earth

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Imaging the quarks inside the pentaquark particle. Figure CERN

What is the material made of?

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This is how you see the Milky Way galaxy from the Borot Lotz parking lot in the Negev and in the background some of the tents that will be set up by the Israeli Desert company for a secular spiritual event. Source: Israeli desert

Opinion - secular spirituality: what is left of God for the secular man?

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A 19th century cartoon depicting Darwin as a monkey

Opinion - Is there meaning in a world without God?

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suds. Illustration: shutterstock

Genesis was empty - how was our universe created? - The fifth and last part

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In this image you see real photographs of the cosmic background radiation as it is measured in the sky (right side). Above you see the cosmic radiation as it was first detected in 1965, the image is colored and the colors indicate the temperature (or frequency) of the radiation. Notice how uniform it is in temperature (there is only one green color). Middle image - in 1992 the Kobe satellite finds tiny differences in temperature (six digits after the decimal point). In the lower image you see a similar image with better spatial resolution taken in 2003. The red band in the middle is not related to the cosmic background radiation, it is micro radiation emitted from the plane of our galaxy

Genesis was empty - how was our universe created? - Part IV

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Wilson (left) and Penzias (right) against the background of the shofar antenna they used when discovering the cosmic background radiation. Source: Wikipedia

Genesis was empty - how was our universe created? - Part III

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An approximate model of the hydrogen atom, the simplest and most common atom in the universe consisting of a proton in the center and an electron around it. All the hydrogen in the universe was created about 380,000 years after the big bang.

Genesis was empty - how was our universe created? - Part II'

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the expanding universe. Illustration: from Wikipedia

Genesis was empty - how was our universe created? - Part a'

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Comet Ison and the planet "Hama" in the early morning just before sunrise in the sky of the Canary Islands, Spain.

Comet Ison is already visible in the morning, will we see it in the evening from Thursday?

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