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One evening last week they went to 50 cafés and bars in the city of Tel Aviv, chatting with people they ran across about scientific advances.

It was a fascinating scene: people who had come to have a good time with friends over drinks were crowding in every corner to listen to lectures given by scientists from the institute.

The scientists made an effort to use simple, everyday language, leaving their complex terminology and equations behind them.

At a bar called Monastery, customers were standing in the concourse or leaning on their motorbikes, not having found a place in the café's balcony.

While there, Prof. Dan Shahar talked to people about some of the secrets of quantum theory, which details the behavior of subatomic particles and how this complex theory relates to our everyday lives.

At Clementine bar, customers learned about one of the wonders of creation from Dr. Karina Yaniv and Professor Eldad Tzahor.

They explained the process whereby a single cell – a fertilized egg – becomes a perfect embryo, and how it relates to stem cells, tissue regeneration and cancer.

They also talked about research to cure, or even prevent, inborn heart defects and cardiovascular diseases.

In Mate Lincoln Café, scientist Yarit Adamovich referred to this year as the 40th year since war has been declared on cancer.

A cancerous cell, she explained, is an egotistical cell: it disrupts all normal processes in the cell only to reach its ulterior goal—to produce more and more cells identical to itself.

Adamovich reviewed the research history of cancer, the disease which even now, is still largely unbeatable.

In a café whose name is its address—44 Gvirol Street, Dr. Rotem Sorek was lecturing about the second genome revolution—a genome for each person. The international project of mapping the human genome was completed in 2003 after an investment of 13 years of work and $3 billion. A second genome revolution, according to Sorek, is liable to further advance medicine by mapping the personal genome of each and every one of us.

Both the scientists and their listeners proved that understanding scientific phenomena which touch on our lives does not necessarily require long years of academic study; all it takes is the desire to share, and the will to listen.

At the end of the lectures the scientists convened for the opening of the exhibition "Parallel Worlds – Now, Here, and Everywhere" at the Daniel Gallery, which is being displayed through mid-May.

At first glance, the artworks on the walls seemed to be modern paintings, somewhat surreal. Yet, when reading the labels accompanying the works, one learns that the subjects are phenomena from unknown worlds that were seen, and then photographed, by scientific teams while they were carrying scientific experiments.

Reporter: Aviva Grunpeter

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