http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=3288 Newest articles written by Arnie Gotfryd Copyright 2005, Chabad.org - Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, all rights reserved. http://www.chabad.org/media/images/50/CtRx507451.gif 130 52 http://www.chabad.org Mon, 01 Jan, 0001 12:00:00 EST Mon, 01 Jan 0001 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1432285 http://www.chabad.org/holidays/purim/article_cdo/aid/1432285/jewish/How-Random-is-a-Lottery.htm <p>Mohan Srivastava’s daughter is only eight years old, but she already knows how to pick winning lottery tickets up to 90 percent of the time. She’s not a prophetess, nor is she a genius—it’s a trick she was taught by her statistician father, who looks for hidden patterns among apparently random numbers for a living.</p> <p>Mohan is a statistical sleuth based in Toronto, Canada, who consults to gold-mining companies. His job revolves around analyzing data from rock samples to help decide if it’s worth digging a mine there. Rocks don’t give up their secrets so easily. A geological statistician has to know about different types of rocks, the forces acting on them, and how metals in those rocks react to those forces.</p> <p>Mining lottery cards for cash works pretty much the same way, as he discovered one day kind of by accident. Someone had given him two scratch-and-win cards, and the first was a loser and the second was a winner. That got him thinking: what made that second card a Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1328969 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1328969/jewish/Refresh-Rate.htm Physical reality is like your computer screen. The pictures it displays aren't substantial physical objects, but dynamic images that are being constantly regenerated. Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1225796 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1225796/jewish/Sounds-of-Silence.htm When we get to the climax of the prayer service, the top rung of the ladder, the Amida, what do we hear? Nothing. Just lips moving. But why? Why, after all the hub-bub, when we get to the heart of our personal conversation with G-d, do we finally go silent? Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1239135 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1239135/jewish/MP3s-and-the-Good-Enough-Revolution.htm Are you investing your life savings based on wikinformation? Are you treating a fatal condition based on a health blog you found? Are you calling a once-in-a-lifetime business contact on a VOIP line? Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1197597 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1197597/jewish/More-Power-To-You.htm Does morality have any influence on a person's physical strength? A new discovery by scientists reflects ancient wisdom on the subject while providing new insight into a curious yet popular Jewish expression of appreciation. Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1183981 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1183981/jewish/The-Science-of-Life-and-the-Art-of-Living.htm Jacques Berger looked me up and down, noting my long ponytail, plaid flannel shirt and threadbare, faded blue jeans. He must have also noticed my ethnically distinct nose... Tue, 11 May 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1120132 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1120132/jewish/Praying-Helps-But-Whom.htm At least ninety percent of Americans pray every day, asking and thanking their Maker for blessings of health, wealth and peace of mind. But what would happen, asked psychologist Nathaniel Lambert of Florida State University, if we focused our prayers on the people that make us mad? Thu, 06 May 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=1158613 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1158613/jewish/The-Biological-Shabbat-Clock.htm How does a seven-day cycle manifest itself in nature? Or does it? Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=998855 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/998855/jewish/How-the-Atom-Found-its-Soul.htm In the middle of this lab session, as literally hundreds of undergraduate students like me were racing against the clock, I was summoned to the side by one of the dozens of supervisors... Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=998018 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/998018/jewish/A-Matter-of-Principal.htm His first day on the job, there was a beating. The victim, a young teenager, suffered brain damage, vision loss and more. After having the perpetrator arrested for assault, Waronker got a personal death threat... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST