Ran Levy

Defending against computer worm attacks. Illustration: shutterstock

War on the Internet - the chapter discussing, among other things, the Stuxnet worm from Ran Levy's new book: Battle of the Minds

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Carl Sagan "visits" Mars. From the series Cosmos

Good luck, and beware of the bears - on Carl Sagan, and human settlement on Mars and Venus

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Apple vs. Samsung

Trolls, sharks and angry birds - on patents in the age of information technology

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The Sanfordshire treasure, one of the treasures found in Great Britain and acquired under the new law. From Wikipedia

The Hammer That Made History: On Real Treasures, Archeology and Metal Detectors

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Paul the Octopus. From Wikipedia

The octopus that beat the monkey: on the 'drawer effect'

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Burj Khalifa in Dubai - the tallest building in the world since 2009. From Wikipedia

Not only because of the wind - on skyscrapers

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The Lord of the Rings movie poster, which was produced based on the book

An exempt thief writer - about J.R.R. Tolkien and 'The Lord of the Rings'

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LSD molecule

The Bad Trip of Tesco the Elephant: On the History of LSD

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

The Bad Trip of Tesco the Elephant: On the History of LSD, Part II

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The cover of the book "The Little University of the Sciences" by Ran Levy

Five medical treatments that are hard to believe have been done in the past

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Potosi. From Wikipedia

A Mountain of Money: On Indians, Sheep, and Inflation

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Susan Vega from Wikipedia. CC licensed image

The Man Who Beat Susan Vega: On the History of the Mp3

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Ernst Friedrich Chaldani

Head-to-head with Newton: on Ernst Chaldani and the meteorites

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Dutch East India Company bond from 1623

Gambling like Rothschild - a review of the book 'The Rise of Money'

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Stephen Hawking's Master Plan book cover. Yanshof Publishing, 2011

Percussive but short: a book review about the 'Master Plan'

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Reagan announces the launch of the project

Reagan's Fantasy: On the Star Wars Initiative

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Jules Verne

Success has two fathers - Jules Verne and Pierre Hetzel

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A steam plane built by an Englishman. Photo: Alexander Graham Bell. From Wikipedia

The man who almost preceded the Wright brothers

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Nylon stockings on flesh and blood legs

Ma'am, it's mine! About the nylon riots

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The admiral Claudisali is following

The curse that became a blessing - about the disaster of the Isles of Scilly

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The photo of the explosion in Halifax (probably the only one that exists)

The worst accident in history - the Halifax disaster

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The cover of the book Journeys Without Scale

Getting Lost: Book Review of 'Journeys Without Scale'

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the cover of the book

Book review: 'The Fish Within', Neil Chaubin.

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Microraptor zhaoianus - the smallest dinosaur fossil in the world. Photographed at the Hong Kong Science Museum, from Wikipedia (GNU license)

The fake fossil that was discovered as two fossils each is a scientific discovery in itself

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bell curve. From Wikipedia

Perfect as a French soldier - on Adolphe Catella and the bell curve

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The cover of the socially sealed book. You spent with an employee

Book review: 'The Social Atom' Why does the monkey beat the economists?

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In memory of the looting of the electronics stores - the DJ Grand Wizard Theodore took a picture with a fan wearing a shirt with the inscription indicating the power outage

Darkness and Fear in New York: On the Great Blackout of 1977

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Gregor Mendel

Not exactly Chuck Norris: on Gregor Mendel and the laws of genetics

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God. third. Wells

Thursday Wells - the successful failure

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IBM 360 computer in the Apollo program

The revolution has begun - on the history of the Internet

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To win the lottery, without partners - on cognitive biases and brain bugs

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

Suicide Mission - on the book 'The Dark Lady of DNA'

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

The dust fountains of the moon

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

Quasars - very far away and terrifyingly powerful

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

If Cinderella Were a Physicist: On Satyandra Bose and the Bose-Einstein Condensation

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

The Man in the Little Pill: About Philip K. Dick

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

Between art and suicide - about sleepwalking

Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

the great death

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

Psychological experiments at McDonald's - about Milgram's creepy experiment

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

In the power of knowledge: the wonderful story of the Israeli Science Corps

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

Hippie, fascist, free man - about Robert A. Heinlein

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

The strange case of the poisonous lady - on the psychology of a crowd

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

How I stopped hating and started loving traffic jams

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

What goes up must come down - on returning from space flights

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Stamp in memory of Isaac Asimov. Photo: Olga Popova / Shutterstock.com

The history of the future

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The meaning of life is 42. The sentence most associated with Douglas Adams. Photography" shutterstock

Douglas Adams - life, the universe and a cup of tea

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

Bubblyism, Big Brother and science

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

About Sophie Germain, the unsung hero of France

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

The Conservative Revolutionary: On Max Planck and the Early Days of Quantum Theory

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Lactate isn't just a byproduct: Here's how it may worsen sepsis

Water instead of oil? Don't bet on it

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