At the age of 12, Lev Schwarzmann (Shvartsman) was kidnapped by anarchists in order to get a ransom from his father, one of the wealthiest Kyiv residents of the late 19th century. After returning to the family, Lev joined the Narodnaya Volya, but he did not stay long with them. None of the theories of the development of society that existed then, and even more so of a person, suited him, and he developed his own philosophy.
Yehuda Leib Schwartzmann, who became known to the world of philosophic thought as Lev Shestov, grew up in the Podil neighborhood of…
Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin is to announce today the sale of tickets for space tours aboard the New Shepard rocket. Blue Origin has already announced that the price of its space tickets will be competitive, which means that it should be no higher than $250,000, for which Richard Branson has already sold 600 tickets for flights under his Virgin Galactic program.
Space tourism is not a new phenomenon. It is believed that the first commercial space traveler was Toyohiro Akiyama, a Japanese journalist for whose travel into space TBS Corporation paid $25 million in 1990. …
About 1.5 million people nowadays die every year from tuberculosis in the world, but before the discovery of streptomycin by Selman Waksman in 1943, this toll was several dozen times higher.
Streptomycin was the first antibiotic effective for treatment of tuberculosis, and, unlike penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming by accident, Waksman and his students had to explore tons of different soils in different parts of the world for many years to isolate streptomycin.
Still in his youth, Waksman became interested in the antagonistic properties of microorganisms that live in the soil, and when in 1932 the American National Tuberculosis…
After defeating coronavirus, which caused colossal damage to business around the world, in the near future, the most urgent problem will be the problem of climate change.
With the previous US administration’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Summit, Joe Biden’s current initiative to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 looks promising. It is important to note that it has already been supported by the richest Americans, including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg.
Today, the richest 1% of people in the world account for 15% of all harmful emissions into the atmosphere. The significant increase in revenues of…
On Saturday, 3 million vaccine shots were administered in the United States, 1.3 million of them being the first dose. The U.S. is currently about where Israel’s vaccine campaign was in mid-February, which is considered a reference standard.
After the critical target groups have already received their doses, the effort will soon shift to the “mop-up” phase. In New York, for example, where the most serious load on the vaccination centers was observed, it is already allowed for everyone to come for vaccinations without an appointment.
In the meantime, in Israel, about 60% of the population has already been…
As soon as Israel eased quarantine restrictions, I immediately took the opportunity to meet with the administration and staff of Tel Aviv University, with which the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine is starting a large-scale project to study the history and culture of Ukrainian Jews from ancient times to the present day.
Historians of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv University will study the history of Jews on the territory of current Ukraine. According to the director and research supervisor of the project, Professor Simkha Goldin, the history of Jews in Ukraine is one of the most unexplored aspects…
For some time now, about 77% of hospitals in the United States have used Nuance Communications’ speech recognition system instead of manually filling out patient records, which automatically transcribes dialogues of doctors with patients and fills in the appropriate fields, including prescriptions.
The $19.7 billion buyout of Nuance Communications has been Microsoft’s largest deal in five years since the $26 billion purchase of LinkedIn in 2016. One of Nuance’s best-known products is the software behind Siri’s voice assistant, after which the company switched to AI-powered healthcare products.
However, according to analysts, the development potential of Nuance goes far beyond the…
The European Commission is going to adopt today a regulatory framework that limits the use of artificial intelligence on the EU territory. It is assumed that the use of AI for indiscriminate surveillance of natural persons should be banned, or, as the bill says, “AI systems used for general purpose social scoring” should be prohibited.
The initiative of the European Commission is assessed by analysts as a counterweight to the Chinese system of the so-called social credit scoring, which actively uses AI. This system allows the ministries of China to exchange information about the social credit score of each resident…
The first year quarter is traditionally a quiet period for initial public offerings (IPOs), but optimistic expectations in the market this year have made adjustments to the established practice. Most of those who went public in the first quarter on the world’s leading exchanges were tech firms. According to analysts, this was the busiest quarter for listings in the past 20 years.
The trend is expected to continue in the coming months. This can be confirmed, for example, by the recent debut of the Coinbase crypto exchange on Nasdaq, which was valued at the start at $85.7bn.
At the same…
“Pioneers, defiant returnees and defenders, they made deserts bloom, revived the Hebrew language, built villages and towns and created a thriving community controlling its own economy and culture, loving peace but knowing how to defend itself, bringing the blessings of progress to all the country’s inhabitants, and aspiring towards independent nationhood,” reads the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, which today turns 73 years old.
Among the pioneers referred to in the Declaration, there were also many Jews who came from the territory of current Ukraine. …
Boris Lozhkin
President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress. https://borislozhkin.org/
