The quest-a thirst unquenchable..
Quest - a thrust unquestionable..
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by thequestforum · Published April 19, 2017
“Millie Dresselhaus began life as the child of poor Polish immigrants in the Bronx; by the end, she was Institute Professor Emerita, the highest distinction awarded by the MIT faculty. A physicist, materials scientist, and electrical engineer, she was known as the ‘Queen of Carbon’ because her work paved...
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by thequestforum · Published April 18, 2017 · Last modified April 17, 2017
In 1967 Philippa Foot introduced us to the thought experiment called the Trolley Problem. This problem introduces a situation where a runaway trolley carrying four people is careening down the tracks towards a dead end. The four people in the trolley will certainly be killed in nothing is...
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by thequestforum · Published April 18, 2017 · Last modified April 16, 2017
Our brains are the same organ, but no way are we all the same people. So why do we like different things, if we’re all made of roughly the same parts? Everybody’s brain development is a little bit different, explains Bill Nye, whether that’s physiologically through chemical variations...
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by thequestforum · Published April 17, 2017 · Last modified April 16, 2017
Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease, take pill, kill something. But physician Siddhartha Mukherjee points to a future of medicine that will transform the way we heal.
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by thequestforum · Published April 17, 2017 · Last modified April 16, 2017
From mobile phones to tablets to Fitbits and Misfits, quantum physics surrounds us. But of course not everything is quantum. Our video sheds some light.
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by Bala Prasad · Published April 16, 2017 · Last modified April 15, 2017
Professor Harari came to the Intelligence Squared stage to explain how the fictions that we believe in are an inseparable part of human culture and civilisation Myths. We tend to think they’re a thing of the past, fabrications that early humans needed to believe in because their understanding...
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by thequestforum · Published April 16, 2017 · Last modified April 15, 2017
Today our Christian brethren celebrate Easter This is the forum’s take on the event. Written by Michael Shermer For the world’s two billion Christians, Easter marks the resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion death at the hands of the Romans. It is the resurrection that sets Christians apart from all...
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by thequestforum · Published April 15, 2017 · Last modified April 9, 2017
That’s the question Richard Dawkins seeks to answer as he continues his exploration of the big questions of life in a world shaking off religious faith. In a journey that takes him from the casinos of Las Vegas to Buddhist monasteries in the foothills of the Himalayas, Richard...
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by Bala Prasad · Published April 15, 2017 · Last modified April 14, 2017
The talk addresses and argues that the future belongs to techno-religions, which promise salvation through technology, and which are already gathering believers in places such as Silicon Valley.
Can machines ever have consciousness? Is there an economic value in it? Does organic life any life over inorganic, artificial life? Dr Yuval Noah Harari answers questions from the audience following his talk
