Education

The destruction of medical and scientific research in the Trump-Musk administration. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DAKEE

Musk's cuts threaten US science, education, and healthcare infrastructure and will harm generations

Cuts in direct and indirect research budgets at NIH, NOAA, FEMA, and many other agencies will lead to a decline in research infrastructure, stunted scientific innovation, and loss of talent, which could critically impact the development of treatments and public health.
A green city, for mental health. Credit: The Science website. The image was produced using DALEE for illustrative purposes and is not a scientific image

Human culture is changing at a rate too high for evolution to catch up - so it could affect each of us

Some problematic trends can be understood from a mismatched evolutionary fit. For example, competition and anxiety about social status have been linked to obsessions with studies, competing for prestigious positions and materialism. There is a growing trend of "being poor longer".
Harvard University. Photo: © Jiawangkun | Dreamstime.com

Seven Nobel laureates have appealed to the heads of Harvard, MIT and Pennsylvania over the hesitancy in dealing with anti-Semitism

The Seven expressed their concern over the hesitant responses of the institutions' leadership to condemn the calls for genocide
A war with iron swords Kibbutzim in the Gaza Strip Reim parking lot at the place where a mass party took place and about 260 young people were murdered Photo by Kobi Gideon / GPO

How to deal with a routine of war and how to preserve the children's optimism?

The surprise and speed with which things happened, and the ignorance regarding the fate of many people, arouses tension and distress in all of us. Bar-Ilan University's mental support team offers several ways to help us deal with
scientific reserve. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Does the program - a scientific and technological reserve contribute to paving and inequality?

About the program - scientific and technological reserve - in the schools, and about its effect on the future of the students
Demonstrators against the coup in Tel Aviv, 2023. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Four ways populists endanger democracy

The populists are lying when they claim they want to empower us all by denying judges the authority to oversee democracy. They really want to break through the strongest constitutional barrier against authoritarianism
Robotics participants. Source: Technion spokesmen.

This road starts here

Walter. Source: Wikimedia.

You can't study science and technology without Walter

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The four freedoms of education

Ravivim school students in Holon during the experiment.

The effect of the nature of the group on the effectiveness of learning

Teaching evolution in schools. Illustration: shutterstock

Survey: 70% support evolution studies - 66% in Jewish schools, 89% in Arab schools

Ben Nelson, founder of Minerva, in a lecture at the World Economic Forum in Dubai.

Project Minerva: The future of academia?

QCRAFT: A "mod" of the game Minecraft, which teaches players about quantum entanglement and other strange quantum phenomena. Credit: QCRAFT.ORG

Mind games / Alan Gerschenfeld

The scientific tablet Einstein of the Fourier company. PR photo

Israeli development: a tablet that is also a scientific laboratory

Israeli nano satellite to the moon. Figure: SPACEIL Group

Israeli entrepreneurship is the key to the future

From the Etrog blocking service website

The divine particle is blocked for the ultra-Orthodox

Teenagers play computer games and kill aliens at a conference at Haifa University, 7/2/2012. Photo: Haifa University

"Star-Craft" on the educational front

Graduation ceremony at the University of Canterbury in the UK. From Wikipedia

Towards real life

eyes for the blind

"The Young Engineer" competition

MDCs when demonstrating an experiment in physics

The MDC project in physics celebrates a decade

Studying mathematics. From the Mount Mary College website

What about math and values?

The whole country is in translation

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Technological education - man versus machine

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Thoughts on mathematical education

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Nanotechnology in high school?

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

sick

Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Who needs the Mitzvah tests?