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Rami Shalheveth

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Bringing the Museum into Your Living Room

From Galileo’s contraptions to computers, from butterfly collections to dinosaurs. Even if you’re stuck at home, you can still make an online visit to nature and science museums around the world

calendar 22.6.2025
reading-time 12 minutes

How Did Scurvy Help the Sicilian Mafia?

The history of organized crime would have looked different if it weren’t for citrus fruits

calendar 11.11.2022
reading-time 7 minutes

The Book Ahead Of Its Time – Newton’s ‘Principia Mathematica’

The “Principia”, Newton’s groundbreaking book that shaped our understanding of the laws of gravity and physics, overcame many an obstacle on its way to recognition

calendar 14.7.2022
reading-time 9 minutes

The Author at the End of the Universe

Science, art, imagination and plenty of humor accompanied Douglas Adams’ far-too-short life.

calendar 25.5.2022
reading-time 6 minutes

Today in History – The Battle Over The Discovery of America

It is 521 years since the second voyage of Amerigo Vespucci, from whose name “America” derives

calendar 13.5.2022
reading-time 9 minutes

Mad Scientists Who Changed the World

Scientists who did not conform to norms and some who breached the levels of morality

calendar 23.4.2022
reading-time 11 minutes

Is The End Of The World Near?

For many generations we have been threatened with an apocalypse that could destroy humanity – What does science have to say about it?

The Writer Who Reinvented Science Fiction

Centenary of the birth of Stanislaw Lem, whose unique writing combined science fiction, social criticism, linguistic virtuosity and satire

calendar 30.9.2021
reading-time 13 minutes

The Inventions That Helped Women Soar

Commemorating International Women’s Day: The technologies that assisted women in their struggle for equal rights.

calendar 7.3.2021
reading-time 15 minutes

The Time-Travel Paradoxes

What happens if a time traveler kills his or her grandfather? How do you stop a time machine from just appearing somewhere in space, millions of kilometers from home?

calendar 22.3.2020
reading-time 12 minutes

As Straight as a Crooked Ruler

Measurement errors that made history

calendar 31.1.2020
reading-time 8 minutes

On this Day: The Maritime Bridge to India

147 years to the inauguration of the Suez Canal, probably the ‎largest and most important engineering project of the 19th century

calendar 22.11.2016
reading-time 7 minutes