Monthly Archive: February 2017

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The Storytelling of Science ( Dawkins, Krauss, deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye .., )(Quest Science month special)

The Storytelling of Science features a panel of esteemed scientists, public intellectuals, and award-winning writers including well-known science educator Bill Nye, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, theoretical physicist Brian Greene, Science Friday’s Ira Flatow, popular science fiction writer Neal Stephenson, executive director of the World...

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U.S. science illiteracy a serious threat-Neil Tyson

  The issue of greatest concern to perhaps one of the nation’s most well-known scientists, Neil deGrasse Tyson: Americans know far too little about science. Americans overall are bad at science. Scared of math. Poor at physics and engineering. Resistant to evolution. This science illiteracy, Tyson told a...

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Pseudoscience-Bill Nye(Quest Science month special)

watch Bill Nye,”the science guy” in his characteristic style discuss the issue of Psedoscience [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”1″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”0″ enable_fullscreen=”0″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”1″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”45″ disable_keyboard=”0″]_q8D2dhWPSs[/wpdevart_youtube]

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Shots of Awe: The Creative Urge

“Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level” – Ernest Becker [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”0″ enable_fullscreen=”1″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”1″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”44″ disable_keyboard=”0″]fvi7VLbiMuk[/wpdevart_youtube]

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A Love Song To Science(To kick start science month)

Science Is Awesome [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”1″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”1″ enable_fullscreen=”0″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”1″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”51″ disable_keyboard=”0″]niewhcHKB9k[/wpdevart_youtube]

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Pseudoscience-Richard Feynman(Quest science month special)

This year as a part of science month celebrations one of the focal themes is the threat of pseudoscience. Kick starting it with the following: [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″ theme=”dark” loop_video=”0″ enable_fullscreen=”1″ show_related=”0″ show_popup=”0″ thumb_popup_width=”213″ thumb_popup_height=”128″ show_title=”0″ show_youtube_icon=”0″ show_annotations=”1″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”51″ disable_keyboard=”0″]tWr39Q9vBgo[/wpdevart_youtube] Transcripts Because of the...

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“The Beauty Of Science” -Richard Dawkins

February has  been an exciting month for Questers for the last 4 years as this is “Science Month”. This year we kick start the celebration with the following video from Richard Dawkins wherein he explains why science is beautiful with a short, inspirational tale. Use this video to...