Jessica Meir is an interesting person. She is Swedish-American-Israeli, born to a Swedish American mother and to an Iraqi Israeli father. One can probably not imagine a more diverse set of cultures merging into one person. Meir seems to be brilliant, as she is an assistant professor of Anasthesia at Harvard, while also being an aquanaut and an astronaut. See her Wikipedia page for more details. Jessica Meir will now be Israel's second astronaut, after ...
