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Viva Sarah Press
Nov 1, 20181 min read
A chat about reporting on the creative culture in Israel
Started the morning with a chat about what it's like to Report on the Innovation and Creative Culture in Israel with a visiting...
Viva Sarah Press
Oct 25, 20181 min read
Cannabis 101: Terminology to know
Cannabis slang and terminology is changing all the time. Some terms like THC and CBD are ubiquitous. But do you know the difference...
Viva Sarah Press
Oct 17, 20181 min read
I don’t work on Sundays
I don’t work on Sundays. While many people around the world don’t work on Sundays, in Israel, where I’m based, Sunday is Day One of the...
Viva Sarah Press
Oct 9, 20182 min read
Pepper spray, educational clowning and a sea of cell phones
My school clowning took me to a high school in a low socioeconomic neighborhood of a central city in Israel. The students, we had been...
Viva Sarah Press
Oct 2, 20183 min read
Educational clown care with pint-sized people
Educational clowning is a new kind of clown care and taking part in this developing arena is oh-so-much-fun. One recent afternoon,...
Viva Sarah Press
Sep 17, 20182 min read
You’re trustworthy, he tells me, then dodges payment (AKA clients who disappear without paying freel
Nearly all freelancers, no matter how veteran, will complete a project for free. Well, the “free” part isn’t meant to happen but it will....
Viva Sarah Press
Sep 3, 20181 min read
Back to school for kids -- and mom, too!
The new school year has begun in Israel, and as my third-grader and two sixth-graders headed back to their classrooms, I, too, returned...
Viva Sarah Press
Aug 30, 20181 min read
Eurovision 2019: Tel Aviv or ?
My kids are certain that I'm going to take them to the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest finals. They're also certain that Tel Aviv will host...
Viva Sarah Press
Aug 20, 20181 min read
A scoop of cannabis ice cream?
What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Vanilla? Chocolate? In Israel, gourmet artisan ice cream chains showcase their creativity...
Viva Sarah Press
Aug 8, 20181 min read
10 amazing iPhone apps made in Israel
Summer 2018: Apple announced its $1 trillion valuation. Shortly before that, Apple celebrated its 10th anniversary of the iOS App Store....
Viva Sarah Press
Aug 5, 20181 min read
Autonomous vehicles: from idea to acceptance
Autonomous vehicles. Self-driving cars. When I first hosted a radio show on the concept of AV in 2014, people were still calling it a...
Viva Sarah Press
Jul 29, 20182 min read
Time flies when therapeutic medical clowns wait for the doctor
Waiting for the doctor is an activity no one enjoys but nonetheless inevitable. So, what happens when a group of therapeutic medical...
Viva Sarah Press
Jul 25, 20181 min read
The Culture of Israeli Startups and the Wild Ideas that are Helping Change the World
For the second year in a row, I presented the workshop -- “The Culture of Israeli Startups and the Wild Ideas that are Helping Change the...
Viva Sarah Press
Jul 22, 20182 min read
White Helmets escape Syria via Israel to Jordan and beyond
Did you see the 2016 documentary on Syria’s “white helmets” civil defense group? It was a powerful window into the daily operations of...
Viva Sarah Press
Jul 16, 20181 min read
CBD - the skin care ingredient of 2018
The cannabis plant has been lauded for medical miracles. Now it's being hailed as the "it" ingredient for beauty cosmetics and topical...
Viva Sarah Press
Jul 12, 20181 min read
Cannabis, cars and collaboration
I gave two talks this week to college students from the US (now visiting Israel). The first talk was an abridged version of why Israel is...
Viva Sarah Press
Jul 2, 20181 min read
And then one day I became a living statue
For the next three days, I’m going to stand in 30C-degree weather, in a sweat-inducing costume, with layers of makeup on my face, on a...
Viva Sarah Press
Jun 18, 20181 min read
Rawabi-Tel Aviv innovation
On a recent visit to Rawabi, the first planned city built for and by Palestinians in the West Bank, developer and Palestinian businessman...
Viva Sarah Press
Jun 18, 20182 min read
Not all babies read the book on how to be born
My youngest son was born with a brain bleed. He was also born prematurely. He lost his heart beat in utero. He turned blue almost...
Viva Sarah Press
Jun 4, 20181 min read
Gathering the right information
Crazy driving. Skewed news. Innovation ideas. Asking for another explanation. These were some of the topics that came up during a panel...
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