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Airsoft
by Robby Holland
Airsoft is a high speed combat simulation sport, in which players eliminate enemy team players with replicas of real firearms that fire 6mm plastic BBs. Airsoft started as a military training simulation in the late 70's...
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Graphene the Wonder Material
by JJ Brewer
In 2004 two individuals at The University of Manchester, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, rediscovered and characterized a long sought-after material. The material they discovered, called...
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Japanese Culture
by Joel Brewer
Japan is a country filled with stories and legends, history and culture, and, in today's modern world, it's one of the leading countries of science and technology. The islands of Japan are located in the...
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Rabbi Nachman taught that joy is a very valuable asset. When one is joyful, he naturally feels close to G-d. "Strength and Joy are in His place" (I Chronicles 16:27). One who is joyful naturally feels close to G-d. One who lacks joy inevitable...
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Community is vital. In the famous story of Choni Hame'agel, in which he slept for seventy years and all his friends and family were already gone, He prayed "Either give me friendship or give me death". (I like that much better than Patrick Henry;s...
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I once went in to a health food store and asked for a good bottle of soy sauce. The store owner pointed to a shelf, where there were two kinds of soy sauce. i asked him what the difference was. He said "This one is like a musical note played on...
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Just a thought: There is a beautiful book called "How To Stop Worrying and Start Living", by Dale Carnegie. It was written more than half a century ago, but contains a great deal of sound advice. It occurred to me that we rarely refer to "worry"...
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A friend of mine had enrolled his daughter in a Beit Yaakov school in a small Israeli city. He was called by the principal, who informed him that his daughter was being suspended. When he asked for the reason, the principal said "It's a problem...
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One of the difficulties in translating from one language to another, is that a word in the original language, may have more than one meaning. Sometimes, the meanings of one word could be opposites. This is the case with the word "cleave" in...
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There are many differences between the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds not only in halachah, but also in ideology. This is especially evident in the area of Mesorah. Both Talmuds recognize the immutability of the laws given to Moses, both in...
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