Science, Medicine, & Education

Love/Sick touches audience at Mira Costa College

nce again, the students of Mira Costa College and Theater School have brought us a winner. This time they explore the delightful, provocative depiction of many expressions of love. Through nine vignettes, John Cariani’s Love/Sick invites the audience into the most intimate moments between a couple, through the succession of two individuals. (To read more, please click on the headline.)

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Self- esteem key to women’s progress in Morocco

By Lailah Said and Victoria Burns AGERZRANE, Morocco–“I do not love myself.” “I do not feel confident in myself.” Imagine feeling this way about yourself. Now imagine hearing this from your mother, sister, or daughter, and knowing that the negative self-conception that they hold within themselves is due to social and cultural constraints beyond their

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International, Lifestyles, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 28, 2019

Items in today’s column include:  *How various public schools named for Jews rank academically *Archaeology in Israel will be subject of day-long colloquium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography *Political Bytes *Honorable Menschen *Passages By Donald H. Harrison How various public schools named for Jews rank academically SAN DIEGO  — Voice of San Diego recently published “A

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

StandWithUs launches petition against NSJP anti- Semitism

  LOS ANGELES — StandWithUs has launched a campaign calling out National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) for spreading antisemitism, supporting violence, and violating free speech. This builds on a similar effort in 2018. The campaign features a petition against the National SJP Conference at University of Minnesota (UMN) being held November 1-3, social

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 26, 2019

Items in today’s column include: 
*Scripps Institution of Oceanography grad now in space
*Jewish Community Fundraisers
*Demanding the ‘perfect’ may impede progress
*Political Dots and Dashes
*Sports
*World War II collector auctioning Hitler memorabilia
* Mazel tov! Mazel tov!

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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions

Some results, but not enough, from U.N. Climate Action Summit

I could not possibly applaud enough the young men and women who flooded the streets in hundreds of cities around the world demanding from their government to take immediate and long-term action to combat climate change. By the same token, I could not condemn and denounce more vehemently Mr. Trump and many of his ilk, like Bolsonaro of Brazil, for their criminal disregard of the catastrophic peril that climate change represents. By denying the threat that climate change poses and its devastating harm to countless living creatures, they are systematically undermining any chance we still have of avoiding a terrible catastrophe, including a mass extinction of species the likes of which the modern world has never seen. (To read more, please click on headline)

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, USA

In field of immunology, AI is needed to sort through all the data

Excerpt: Considering the existence of widespread data on the human immune system, most of it not easily connected, this is an enormous task for a human mind.  
In a humorous aside, Dr. Shen-Orr, recalling the classic Faustian Pact with the Devil, offered that the Devil came to our scientific labs 20 years ago (the genome and its derivatives), and offered a great ‘data dump.’  He tricked us, since the sheer volume of it makes no sense.

But with Super Computers and applied AI, it is possible to begin to sort the data and find patterns which give us direction into how to treat those yet untreatable.  (Please click headline to read full story)

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Irv Jacobs, MD, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education