Yoram Soreq

Choosing a name for a baby boy before birth. Illustration: shutterstock

Things that Yorams know: Why does everyone have a name?

Yair asks "Is there a person who does not have a name?"
A prisoner loses consciousness in a cell that simulates atmospheric conditions at an altitude of 15 kilometers. Photo: Sigmund Rascher

Things that donors know: Is there any scientific value to the experiments conducted by the Nazis in the concentration camps?

AA asks: Nazi scientists during the war were given access to conduct experiments on human beings freed from any ethical or moral restrictions. Did they succeed in achieving anything? Can we see any contribution
Lego figures of Homer Simpson and his neighbor Ned Flanders having a barbecue. Note that Symphon holds the instrument in his right hand while Flanders in his left. Flanders is also the owner of a store for left-handed products. Illustration: shutterstock

Things that Yoram knows: left and right

"The shekel man" asks "how is it that there are right-handed and left-handed people"
The location of the appendix in the digestive system. Image: depositphotos.com

Things Yoram knows: the worm-shaped appendix

This week we learned about the return of the Prime Minister's wife, Sara Netanyahu, to her family after surgery to remove her appendix. Next to the sigh of relief, the interest arises in Neta's question: why do you need the appendix if it is removed
Earth's axis of rotation. Illustration: shutterstock

Things that Yorams know: why does the earth rotate like shawarma?

What would happen if the earth did not rotate on a north-south axis (like a shawarma skewer) but on some axis on the equator?
The anatomy of the foot. Image: depositphotos.com

Things that Yoram knows: why do you need toes?

Jinjun wonders what the toes are for? Are they a useless organ destined to degenerate and disappear? And why is it so painful for them to hit a piece of furniture at night?
wisdom teeth. Image: depositphotos.com

Things Yoram knows: Who needs wisdom teeth?

His mouth is lethargic and the hum of the drill still echoes in his ears. He turns to C with a desperate question: Who needs wisdom teeth?
Epetz: A benign growth on an oak tree branch. Source: Franco Folini, Wikimedia

Things that growers know: why plants don't get cancer

Bonobo monkeys in their natural environment. Photo: depositphotos.com

Things Yorami know: why kiss?

Strangely, Naomi, not only is it not known why people kiss, but it is not even clear whether the romantic kiss is a universal gesture and whether it is a learned behavior, but evolution has clues
A puppy dreams of a sausage. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things that Yorams know: Why do we stay awake in a dream?

Judit reports with amazement about a dream in which she smelled fresh bread and asks if there really are fragrant dreams?
A grove of ancient oak trees. Photo: depositphotos.com

Things Donors Know: Can Trees Live Forever?

In honor of Tu Bashvet, the column will satisfy the curiosity of Corbus who asks whether trees grow old or are they immortal
alcoholism. Photo: depositphotos.com

Things that donors know: is there a "vodka garden" for Russians?

compass. Photo: depositphotos.com

Things that Yaorim know: where does the compass needle point?

Niv asks: Why does the compass point north if the dynamo that flows under the surface of the ground, under the entire earth, is the one that creates the magnetism?
widow. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things that Yoram knows: sick, dying, widow - why women live longer than men

Judith asks: "Why do women live longer than men?"
Immortality. Illustration: Shutterstock

Things that Yoram knows: when and why did we give up immortality?

A bumble bee sucks nectar and in the process pollinates a flower. Photo: shutterstock

Things that insects know: can insects learn?

Until a few decades ago, insects were considered mindless automatons whose actions are guided by instincts and reflexes, but it turns out that they are also much smarter than was commonly thought
Pharaoh's daughter gathers Moses. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things Yoram knows: Did Sara Aminu shave her legs?

Noah has a few questions about body hair: From what period did women remove hair from unnecessary places? Did the women shave their legs during the time of the Bible? And how? Were there other periods (besides now) when men also shaved
Snails walk after the rain. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things that people know: who moved my slug?

Snails appearing with the shooter aroused the curiosity of Veronica who asks where do they disappear in the summer?
A bridge of ants. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things that Yoram knows: Go to the ant

Nir looks in amazement at the rows of industrious ants and asks: Is there slavery in nature? Are the workers enslaved to the queen?
Holstein cows Illustration: Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things that donors know: why milk?

Time managment. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Things that Yoram knows: why are there 24 hours in a day and who decided what time it is?

The day is divided into two dozen hours because the hour was born even before the decimal system defeated the competing base 12. The fixed hour is a relatively new invention
The dark part of the moon is visible next to the bright scythe. Source: Radoslaw Ziomber, Wikimedia

Things people know: why is the moon white?

embarrassment. Illustration: shutterstock

Things that Yoram knows: an embarrassing column

The column on the connection between evolution and emotions led my father to ask "Why are we embarrassed?"
The eruption of the Tongorhua volcano in Ecuador, 29/11/2011. Photo: shutterstock

Things Yoram knows: what calms the volcanoes?

Naama Erzi asks: Why do volcanoes stop being active?
A deadly mantis in a horror movie. An insect of this size would have suffocated in the absence of a mechanism for transporting oxygen. Reynold Brown, Wikimedia

Things people know: why are insects small?

Over a million species of insects breathe through cilia, so there is a limit to their growth capacity.
Chickens. From Jumpstory

Things that donors know: what are chicken wings used for?

In honor of Yom Kippur and the chickens of atonement, we will answer the question of the Yosef family "We wanted to ask and can't find an answer - what is the function of the chicken's wings?"
A risky bet. Illustration: shutterstock

Things that Yoram knows: why do we love the lottery and is it possible to beat the roulette?

Siegel asking "Which is more likely in the stock market or the lottery. And if there is a better chance in the stock market: why do we play the lottery?" The answer is unequivocal - in the stock market. And why only people like Sheldon Adelson can profit
Baroque fresco of the creation of the world in the church kostel Svaté Voršily by Jan Jakub Stevens ze Steinfelsu (1707).

Things that donors know: why exactly 5781?

Chaim wonders: How did they decide that the world was created exactly 5781 years ago?
Lotto (not Israeli so as not to do free advertising). From jumpstory

Things Yoram knows: hot numbers

Efrat asks: How is it possible that theoretically each of the numbers drawn in the lottery has an equal chance of being selected, while in reality it does not seem that way?
Piranha fish. Illustration: Image by Reimund Bertrams from Pixabay

Things that people know: what is disgust?

Disgust, along with fear, anger, joy, sadness and surprise belongs to a very small group of "basic emotions" - those that we are born with the ability to feel and that we recognize in the faces of strangers
A single-celled parasite colony feeds inside an animal's cell. From Jumpstory

Things Yorami know: the multicellular conundrum

Two questions will occupy us in this column, both of which concern the relationship between the whole and its parts. Let's start with Nir's philosophical questioning: in the animal world (fish, reptiles, mammals and birds) we know that all body parts serve the
leader. From Jumpstory

Things that Yorami know: who is a leader?

BL asks: What makes a person a leader
A jury in Mexico. From jumpstory

Things that donors know: why are there no juries in Israel?

shaving From Jumpstory

Things people know: why shave?

A detailed calendar for the days. From jumpstory

Things Yorami know: Why are there seven days in a week?

Soup of numbers, from jumpstory

Things that donors know: why do we live in base 10?

A goat and a cat seek shade together in Harar, Eastern Ethiopia. From Wikipedia

Things Donors Know: Do Animals Have Pets?

The num lock keys on the left side of the keyboard. The numbers go from bottom to top. Photographer: Mysid Wikimedia

Things Yoram Knows: The Evolution of the Numeric Keypad