Not meat or milk: Israeli food tech can help fight climate change
Prof. Shlomo Maital brings the breakthroughs of the future in food production, and how it is done.
Self-efficacy, Interpersonal Skills and STEM Career Choice The Case of the FIRST Project
In view of the acute lack of STEM professionals, there is dire need to encourage more students to elect STEM studies. The robotics program For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), whose participants are students 5–18 years old, employs project-based learning (PBL) principles to develop interpersonal skills. The FIRST program applies science, technology, […]
What is the origin story of Israel’s Declaration of Independence?
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The public is heavily burdened by the greed of monopolies
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Is the Israeli Start-Up Nation era coming to an end?
Prof. Shlomo Maital is asking: Save Our Startups
Rebellion or good citizenship?
On the criteria for justifying rebellion or civil disobedience
Israel-Singapore: A deep, dark, secret love affair
Prof. Shlomo Maital on Israel’s crucial role in helping Singapore and why it was kept so secret.
Engineering, Society and Environment
Engineering has a crucial role in the development of human civilization and its influence is especially prominent in the current era. This influence extends beyond the direct effects of engineering artifacts and it has increasing indirect impacts, positive and negative, such as those associated with environment and society, such as increase in societal gaps. Modern […]
Energy Forum 54: Electrical Energy Storage
The electricity grid, naturally, operates in a non-constant state, with fluctuations in both consumption and production. From this arise non-simple problems in network management. There are several ways to deal with these problems, the most immediate of which is a control mechanism of the electric company that activates or deactivates power plants of various types […]
Israel needs Masorti Jews to become modern, tolerant, welcoming
Prof. Shlomo Maital suggests that Israel today is like one big brain, split Left and Right. Only without a working corpus colossum to connect them – and suggests it could be the tiny Masorti movement.
