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Happy Passover

April 17, 2025

Students at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology come up with a new way to tell a very old story.

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Happy Passover

April 23, 2024

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Happy Passover

April 6, 2023

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Happy Passover

April 16, 2022

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Happy Passover

March 27, 2021

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Happy Passover

April 9, 2020

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Happy Passover

April 20, 2019

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Happy Passover

April 10, 2017

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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
―Hank Aaron
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Does refusing to go to the gym count as resistance training?
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