tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70793168865741136232011-08-03T09:01:23.057+03:00Mel Rosenberg pursues parallel careers as a scientist (international expert on the diagnosis and treatment of bad breath, with a book just out), inventor (Dentyl pH, the second bestselling mouthwash in the UK, and various other concoctions and gizmos, some available on the site), jazz singer and musician (with several jazz festivals and two CDs under his belt), writer of illustrated children's books (now becoming available online and offline).Dr. Mel Rosenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10597461665853406230noreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079316886574113623.post-89710071572099915962010-06-23T15:02:00.006+03:002010-06-24T10:47:52.098+03:00

The HED big band is an Israeli phenomenon. Composed of some 16 professional musicians, most of them immigrants from Russia, they have been delighting audiences for years with their renderings of classic American tunes from the 1940s jazz era. They have performed with leading vocalists and musicians from Israel and abroad. Their classy club in south Tel Aviv is the perfect venue for hearing this

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Elvis, our beloved dog, has a dilemma. It is the day before Passoverand the house is full of good food. Will he go for Granny's home mademeat balls, or the store-bought gefilte fish? It's a tight contest.Enjoy.

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7th Workshop of the ARPA FoundationMel Rosenberg presenting onPeriodontal Disease & Bad Breath Are They Related? Friday, 2010-03-19 - 2.15 pm, MunichDentists often assume that periodontal disease is a major cause of badbreath. Indeed, bad breath is often cited as being a warning sign ofperiodontal disease. But is it? This is the issue which I will addressin my presentation. Indeed, various

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Eight or nine autumns ago, I met Rick Birman for the first time. We were playing a rather large open air gig at the Ziv Towers in Ramat Hahayal. Rick Birman came up to me at intermission and introduced himself, saying that he was enjoying our music. Rick was a well known pianist here in Tel Aviv, and knowing that he was in the crowd made me very nervous during our second set! This was the

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A Door Closes, A Window Opens In December, 1973, I flew back to Ottawa for my brother David's bar mitzvah. A week or so after the simha, I was surprised to receive a telegram (phone call? I can't remember) from Tel Aviv University. "Where are you?" they wanted to know. A week before the Yom Kippur war, I had taken the bus from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv to interview for a graduate position there

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My Children's Books Come to LifeI have been writing children's books, stories and plays for over thirty years. My first story, "Bacteria Galore by Sunday at Four" was the first to be published (in Hebrew) in 1996, followed by Arabic and English versions.Today I chanced upon the very first version of this story, written in a lab notebook in 1975. I had prepared it for a young child in Kiryat

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(Pictured from left Professor Mel Rosenberg, Professor Danny Levitan, Rector, Tel Aviv University)Bye Bye Love I have spent most of my life at Tel Aviv University, student, lecturer, professor. I started out 36 years ago as a starry-eyed young M.Sc. student, right after the Yom Kippur war. Lat week I submitted my letter requesting early retirement. There are many reasons for my desire to retire

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All Roads Lead to RhodesActually, no roads lead to Rhodes, an undeniably beautiful Greek island. But, people come to this magical island for just that, to relax and be removed from the hustle and bustle of everday life. If you need to be online 24/7, this isn't the place. Do not come to this lovely island if you like to be stressed out. This is a place to hang loose.If you do come, make sure to

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A fellow scientist reviews my bookA Review of Children's Science Books: “Bacteria Galore by Sunday at Four,” My first review will combine two of Jonathan's faves: Microbiology and Open Access. The book is "Bacteria Galore by Sunday at Four" by Mel Rosenberg, a Professor of Microbiology at Tel-Aviv University who wrote the text and Tali Niv-Dolinksy, the illustrator.The book is Microbiology 101

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Ode to an Up and Coming BloggerSex, Sheep and New Zealand I have written a bunch of amazing blogs about my life and the world over the past year. Sadly, only about three people a day visit my blog. For example, over the past year, only three visitors from New Zealand have visited my blog. I have never been to New Zealand but have heard it's a swell place with great people.I went to my blogging

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It was a great time making this with you guys!

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Mahane Yehuda - The Jerusalem ShukA Walk Down Memory LaneThe famous shuk of Mahane Yehuda in Jerusalem has undergone some major facelifts since I was a student in the early seventies. Still, the stalls are much the same, as well as the espirit of the people selling their varied wares. Nowadays, it's not just fruits and veggies, fish and meat, but also coffeehouses, fancy shmancy candles and halva

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The Witch and the Toothbrush -A Story about Dental Hygiene A dozen years ago, Prof. Herb Judes, then Head of the Dental Faculty of Tel Aviv University, asked me start a dental outreach program in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Israel. Outreach for me means reaching out to kids. After all, when you teach a child good oral hygiene, his teeth will likely last a lifetime. Soon we were bringing small

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What should the un-iversity be about?Nothing, and everything. The curriculum should resemble a me-nu more than a syllabus. It should be a resource for learning, for thinking, for creating new ideas, new paradigms (whatever those are). It shouldn't compete with regular universities (we have enough of those) in offering standard courses. The courses we offer should be 'off the wall'. It is likely

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To Be or Not to Be!The ten minutes that changed your life.Just yesterday I was talking to Jeff Pulver about his thoughts on chance, providence, and good old luck. I was thinking that each of us must have experienced an episode that changed our life, shaped our career, secured our financial well-being or brought about fame. Some of us have had several, but if I asked you to recount the most

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<?xml:namespace prefix = o /> The Un-iversityOnce in a while, my dream of starting an un-iversity comes back to "haunt" me. After over thirty years at a regular university (Tel Aviv University), I am aware of the shortcomings of ordinary academia. 1. The students are degree-oriented. The want to take a course, get a y average, to get a degree in z. 2. Teaching is mostly mediocre. This is because

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Save your Breath"Save Your Breath" is a book on bad breath that I have written for the general public. I wish me luck! I have already sold over 120 books and it isn't even published yet. This book is very valuable because it's an easy read and yet extremely informative and explanatory. I hope it will better many the many people l around the globe who suffer from issues of bad breath on a daily

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Us kids at the house, 1963My First Start-Up: Still going strong at fifty!I have been back to my home in Ottawa only a few times over the past forty years. So when I met Nicole, a scientist from Ottawa at the recent American Society for Microbiology (ASM) meeting in Philadelphia, I implored her to take a few photos of my old home.So here is the picture of the place we grew up in fifty years ago.

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My Trip to DortmundTraveling to Germany is always an issue for me. For decades, I wouldn't go at all. Then, when I was about forty-five, I broke the ice and started going there for business. I found three things: i. A lovely country; ii. Nice people (with a few exceptions, like anywhere); iii. Ghosts. I keep coming back to the war, wherever I am. Where did the Jews live here? Where were they

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Yossi Vardi Walks into my LifeYossi Vardi is an enormously successful entrepreneur who spearheaded the Israeli internet hi-tech revolution of the past fifteen years (and before that he had an amazing career as well). We met several years ago, through the auspices of Prof. Dov Lichtenberg (Yossi's classmate and my Dean at the Medical School). For whatever reasons, we hit it off. Yossi connected me

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Mel Rosenberg's recent recording with Shany Moore Autumn Leaves & Everything Happens to YouI met Shany Moore about six years ago following the recommendation of my late friend the jazz pianist Rick Birman. I was impressed. Man, that young lady could sing! I later saw her perform in the basement of the old Camelot in Tel Aviv with the Shai Maoz trio. They were hot. During the years that have

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Inventors, inventing, inventions... I don't remember inventing things as a kid. Actually I am quite clumsy at technological things and have trouble working practically anything. When I was in high school, I developed a knack for taking pianos apart, but was unable to put them back together. Our piano in Ottawa required an urgent visit from the piano tuner, who scolded me for opening it up in

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Mel takes off for Bologna's International Children's Book Fair In a week and a half, I should know whether the work we've done over the past two years has been worthwhile. By the work, I mean a labor of love: preparing eight (!) children's books, illustrations and all, for the children's book fair in Bologna. Together with our potential partners in the UK (The Smelly Book Company), we are having

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Mel's Sold Out Performance at the Tel Aviv Jazz FestivalRead on to find out what preparation went into it and more details... Last year, I approached Nitzan Kremer, jazz guru and organizer of international jazz festivals around the world. I wanted to know how one moves up the ladder from being a jazz entertainer to a jazz musician. Three times in the past he had invited me to perform at the Tel

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Blog from London TownAlthough the news on the television is grim concerning the UK fiscal situation, you'd never know it on Oxford Street here in London. Streets are packed with November shoppers, even though there are no good sales on (I wonder how many of the shoppers are Europeans coming over to take advantage of the low pound). And even though the weather here has been inclement, the

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A Tribute to Chet Baker@ the Tel Aviv Jazz FestivalThursday, February 26 I have loved the song and music of Chet Baker, trumpetist and singer, ever since I was 'introduced' to him by my friend and jazz afficionado Eli Marcus way back in the 80s. I never heard him in person, but was lucky to meet (and briefly perform with) a Belgium sax player who had played with him . Chet had an amazing gift for

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I have been smelling babies' heads for many decades. Doesn’t everyone? I particularly love the smell behind their ears. Today I spent about twenty minutes smelling Amitay, the six month old baby of Rotem Omri, the wonderful illustrator of my current children's books (see http://www.meltells.com/). I noticed that after smelling him for a few minutes, I became highly relaxed and content. Mothers

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How I wrote Tim the Porcupine meets Dr. CluckMel Rosenberg© 2008–12-20Tim the Porcupine was the first story in my trilogy of Dr. Cluck stories. Tim wakes up one morning to find that his quills are on backwards (reminiscent of Kafka's marvelous "Metamorphosis", which beginsAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect).Tim tries

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Skip to article Dear Janet,To: JANET RAE-DUPREEDear Janet,You recently (Sept. 6th, 2008) wrote an article in the New York Times entitled on universities and intellectual property in the US. This article was circulated among senior professors at my university, and had a bemused read.Let's start with the basics. University academics have egos that range from large to XXXL. They (myself included, of

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A tooth for a toothRabbi Yechiel Eckstein is a famous orthodox rabbi who has made a philanthropic allegiance with famous evangelist Christian leaders, who are also orthodox in their own way (the way of the church, that is). He is founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. With their support, Rabbi Eckstein has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for worthy

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GeekCon-2008-2539Originally uploaded by Yaniv GolanOne of the most ingenious games to come out of geekcom 2008, guess who won...

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The launch performance of "The Essential Mel" CDOriginally uploaded by Mel RosenbergCarol Feldman, a good friend, sat at the launch performance of my new CD, "The Essential Mel", and drew these lovely pictures of the band. Thank you, Carol!

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Leiden is one of the best-kept secrets of Europe. A university town of 120,000 inhabitants (about 20% of them students and professors), full of everything one would expect in an old Dutch town – windmills (still working), little canals, winding cobblestone streets, coffee shops, fantastic chocolate emporia, big market on Saturday with almost everything (no kitchen sinks, but other appliances).

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I have been writing children's stories (in English and Hebrew) for dozens of years. Like most authors, I dreamed of having the stories published and indeed, twelve years ago, my first book, Bacteria Galore by Sunday at Four was published in Hebrew, and subsequently in Arabic and English.Last year we published another book (this time in Hebrew) containing two stories, "The Witch and the Toothbrush

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Sometimes dreams do come true. Every summer, when I was growing up in Canada, my parents would send me to "Camp Massad", a Hebrew-speaking summer camp near Winnipeg. My fondest memory of the camp is learning Israeli songs (I still have the mimeographed "shirron" dating back to the early '60s), among them "Erev Shel Shoshanim", written by Moshe Dor. In 1976 I married Shulamit Sapir, a marvelous

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This morning I met with my good friend Jehudi and his wife, Iris. I don't get to see them that often as they live in Germany, so any opportunity to sit down with them and catch up is welcome. Jehudi has recently launched an international program called the 'good rose' which entails handing a lovely little rose to someone as a gesture of goodwill, appreciation, peace and love.Jehudi has given out

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Tel Aviv University is having financial difficulties. As a public campus, some of the burden for this lies on the State of Israel, but some of the responsibility lies on the shoulders of those who have been running our university. One of the most irksome issues is that of applied research. Weizmann Institute brings $100,000,000 a year from royalties of service inventions. The Hebrew

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I am writing this blog from the Hilton Park Hotel on the outskirts of Nikosia (or Lefkosia, as it is actually called here), Cyprus. A lovely place. It is only a forty minute flight from Tel Aviv, but here one feels as if in a different world, more relaxed, less frenetic. At breakfast today, there was barely the sound of a single mobile phone, which was a welcome relief from the noisy

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Kinnernet2008-552 Originally uploaded by Herbert Bishko This is our skatmobile, based on an idea i had that originally didn't work, but into the limelight stepped up my friend and great genius Hagai Cohen, who invented a new steering mechanism. We test ran the new skatemobile at Kinnernet 2008, it actually works and is like waterskiing on land. Tons of fun. Stay tuned!!!!

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Kinnernet2008-594 Originally uploaded by Herbert Bishko With the man himself, the one and only King and Ruler of Kinnernet (not to mention originator, organizer and visionary) Yossi Vardi

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About two years ago, I was approached by the President of Afeka College, Prof. Moti Sokolov. He had heard (quite correctly) that I was interested in taking a sabbatical, and teaching an interdisciplinary course at the undergraduate level. This is practically impossible at large, conservative, departmentalized universities, but Afeka is a top notch community college, focusing on engineering

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Hagai Cohen Originally uploaded by rafael_mizrahi With Hagai Cohen, test driving last weekend at the kinneret - Doesn't it look cool?

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Several weeks ago I arrived at the Giraffe, a popular local restaurant. The moment I walked into the restaurant, I noticed that many people there were wearing green shirts. I didn't pay attention to the waiters, the aroma, just the number of people wearing green shirts. I thought it might be St. Patrick's day. It wasn't, just a lot of people wearing green shirts. I might not have given this

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Last month I had a great time in South Africa - a hectic week of professional lectures and interviews, followed by a great weekend of fun, relaxation, and of course - Jazz.Saturday night I had one of the most memorable jazz performances of my career at the venerable Rand Club in Johannesburg. I played with a formidable rhythm section, led by Dr. Marc Duby (a fellow professor, but of music!),

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I already wrote you how I started writing children's books, and even asked for your opinion on my new free children's books project.Like many other writers I am heavily influenced by other children's books. In particular, those that my father used to read me every night. I knew most of them off by heart, but like many other children, never tired of hearing the same beloved, familiar story again

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Let me start out by stating clearly that the problems of Tel Aviv University which I will be discussing are as much my fault as anyone else's. I wouldn't like to give the impression that I am blaming others, I think we are all to blame.In the early 1970s, I moved to Tel Aviv University as a young master's student. What a welcome escape it was from my undergraduate days as a chemistry student at

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During the early-mid 1970s, terrorism in Israel took on an ugly face and nowhere appeared safe. I was doing my M.Sc. thesis, and each month had my turn standing at the entrance to the life science building on campus, checking all those entering the building. The head of the botany department, Prof. Yoav Weisel, decided that this was not enough. So every week two volunteers headed up to Kiryat

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About five years ago I went to a conference on alcohol in Brussels with two objectives. The first was to meet a researcher from Finland, with a strange theory that the yeast and bacteria in our mouths help cause cancer when we drink alcohol. The second was to meet the television team that was due to film a program on bad breath (they later came to Israel, and went on to produce a film that won

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I grew up in a small city in Canada (Ottawa) in the 1950s and 1960s. There were only about 5000 Jews in a city of about 250,000. I went to a private Hebrew day school where we spent almost half the day praying and learning religion. When we stepped out of the school onto York Street, other children would taunt us, and on occasion throw stones at us. We were not allowed to sing Christmas caroles,

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What I wouldn't give today to have met Frank Sinatra?The sad truth is that I could have, and didn't. This story takes place in the winter of 1975. I am selling musical instruments by day at Tel Aviv's largest musical emporium, and writing my master's thesis by night. I had recently begun dating Shuli (my wife of 31 years) and am deeply in love. One morning a guy comes into the store. Sinatra is

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It is the autumn of 2001 and we have our biggest gig to date – an open air performance in front of hundreds of people at Kikar Ziv in the high tech area of Tel Aviv. I am performing with a tenor sax, which I had just started to play (instead of the alto on which I learned to play sax originally), and am pretty nervous. After the first set, someone familiar from the jazz scene comes up to shake my

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"I see you've gone and changed your name again…" -Leonard CohenNames are difficult to remember. This is not only because we are more interested in having people remember our names than we are in remembering others' names. As one of the heroes of my youth, Dale Carnegie pointed out, a person's name has little to do with the person. When we are born, our parents pick a name they fancy. By the

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Last night, I watched one of the modern masters of the tenor saxophone, Scott Hamilton, perform his magic at the Tel Aviv Opera House in front of a huge, immensely appreciative crowd. Scott has distilled the art of Ben, Lester, Coleman and Gene, and delivers an immaculately smooth sound with more subtle hues than the autumn leaves back in his native Rhode Island. His trademark ballads transport

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Gordon Lightfoot is one of my favorite songwriters. He makes a fellow proud to be a Canadian. Two of my favorite songs are "In the early morning rain" and "Affair on 8th Avenue.""In the early morning rain" is the classical song of getting stuck, somewhere, anywhere, emotionally or physically (or both). The guy in the song may be somewhat of a broke hobo, but it speaks to us all.When I was a

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It is the early summer of 1959. Ottawa. The crocuses have blossomed.I have just completed my first year's study of piano with the formidable Sandra Coupal (I am glad to see there is now a prize given in her memor each year). She is a stern, but excellent teacher of classical piano on Daly Street. I am one of her better young first year students, and am elected to play God Save the Queen at the

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I must admit that until recently I was not much of a fan of gypsy swing. This art form was perfected in the 1930s by the great Django Reinhardt, and since he died, all that's left is to try to copy his inimitable style. But something happened to me a few months ago on the way to the shopping mall that has changed my musical future.Every Sunday I would perfom our regular jazz standards with my

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Next week is an exciting one for me – my seventh performance with the HED Big Band in south Tel Aviv.Singing with a big band has been one of my greatest dreams since I started to perform eight years ago. Let me tell you how it came true.My sister-in-law Neta reads people's futures in Ecuadorian stones. "What would you like to ask my stones?" she asked one summer's day."Will I ever have the chance

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Essential MelOriginally uploaded by Mel Rosenberg Meira, who worked here in the Faculty of Medicine until recently, ordered this beautiful drawing of me as a present for her retirement.It was drawn by a fantastic young artist: analgarlic.blogspot.com/ - whom I also thank for capturing my image so well!

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Leonard Cohen lived just down the road from me. The road from Ottawa to Montreal, that is. Strangely, he didn't exist for me until the summer of 1969, when someone sang "Hey, that's no way to say goodbye" at Camp Galil in Pennsylvania. Since then, it's been a love affair. My love for his eternal words and music.I saw him twice. Once, in concert in Jerusalem (Binyenei Hauma, 1972 or 1973). He

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I am the kind of person who looks for glasses while he is wearing them. I have trouble finding everything and anything. I look for keys in my pocket when I am holding them in my hand. I get lost two blocks from my own house. Several years ago I was at an important meeting in a large building in Germany. I went to the bathroom, and upon my exit, could not remember where I had come from. I wandered

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It's a pleasant afternoon in London, which is something a tourist here should not take for granted. My dear friend Howard W. has arrived to escort me through Mayfair on our adventure. Like bloodhounds, we are on the trail of scent, but with a different task in mind than hunting foxes. Our goal: to find the most remarkable perfumeries in London's west end that still make their very own unique

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With "Swing De Gitanes"Originally uploaded by Mel Rosenberg With a wonderful trio (Swing De Gitanes), playing some gypsy-style jazz. Their music is fabulous, and I hope to put up a performance with them soon!

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pinocchio takes a break on a hot day Originally uploaded by Mel Rosenberg Rome, Italy

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Holy WaterItaly is one of those countries where water has great importance. Not very knowledgeable about Catholic practice, I noticed a person dipping her hand into some water at the entrance to the lovely (and cool!) church in Piazza Navone, and then crossing herself. This is one of those European countries where water is pricey. A small bottle of water costs the equivalent of four to five US

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Jazz at the Bean 063 Originally uploaded by Mel Rosenberg My new Sunday evening gig - At the Ramat-Aviv Coffee Bean

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Bad breath has been good to me. I write these words in the lobby of the Thistle Marble Arch, near Oxford Street right next to Marble Arch and Hyde Park. I'm on my way home in a few minutes, after five days dedicated to the two-phase mouthwash which I invented and help develop, first in Israel, then in the UK. As I write, the invention (Dentyl pH) has become a hit here. One out of every five (!)

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Mel the Genie Originally uploaded by Mel Rosenberg. Rotem-The-Pink-Pirate drew my picture as a genie... pretty cool, right?

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Life is funny. Back in 1975 I had the chance to sit backstage at a Frank Sinatra concert in Jerusalem, and blew the opportunity. I guess I wasn't enough of a Sinatra fan at the time. What an idiot I was then! When I entered Hillcrest High School in 1964, I could have learned saxophone and played in the school big band. Instead I signed up for woodwork (a disaster for me and the poor remains of

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Friday morning gig 2Originally uploaded by Mel Rosenberg. With Tamir Miller and Oren Sagi on our regular Friday morning gig in Petach-Tikva

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Smelling well is very important in modern society. We interact with hundreds of people each day, we smell them and they smell us. Smelling well is critical to our success in life. We are less likely to date or to hire people with bad smell. Most of us would avoid being treated by a dentist who has a bad odor.Of all our senses, smell is the most mysterious. We can detect thousands of different

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I was recently sitting in a hotel at the Dead Sea, ruminating about life, and observing an annoying fly who was about to die. So here are its last few words, as recorded by me, and which in turn I would like to dedicate to the late, great Ogden Nash who wrote the immortal poem:"The Lord in his wisdom made the fly/And then forgot to tell us why."On the FlyI don't know whyI'm just a flyI could have

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Although I am not a physician or dentist, I am part of the medical/dental establishment. I work in a medical faculty, I lecture to physicians (mainly about bad breath and body odors), and I do medical research.We teach our medical and dental students to deal with disease, but we never stop to consider whether there is one standard definition for this word. Wikipedia's current definition of

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People call me Mr. Bad Breath to my face, other things behind my back ("Honey, do you know what Mel Rosenberg actually does for a living? He sticks his nose into people's mouths and smells their breath!"). When I was that pudgy kid growing up in Ottawa, I originally wanted to be an astronomer. But I ended up doing my Ph.D. in microbiology. When I joined the dental faculty of Tel Aviv University

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The entire family at Seder 2007Originally uploaded by Mel Rosenberg.

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There is something special about starting one's blog on Passover. Passover is the holiday of starting afresh, the Jewish people leaving Egypt and finding their freedom in the Holy Land. This is essentially what happened to me when I left Canada in 1969. In Canada, your 'Jewishness' is defined by the Jewish community (which synagogue you attend, which Jewish school you attend) and by the

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A few weeks ago I attended Kinnernet 2007, a unique adult summer camp (but held in the spring) mostly for computer and internet geniuses, and other assorted strangely talented but otherwise harmless people. The camp 'director' Yossi Vardi (to the right of me in photo), kindly invited me, despite my limited understanding of all things internet (I suppose I belong tothe second category of invited).

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Dear Friends,This is my first post, so please be kind. First, I'd like to thank my manager, Alon Amit, for setting it up so quickly. What I hope to do here is discuss various aspects of my personal, scientific and musical life in the hope that it is of some interest or benefit to others.I was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Ottawa, at a time when there were only six teams in the NHL, and the CFL

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