The quest-a thirst unquenchable..

Quest - a thrust unquestionable..

“You have given me deeper thirsting after life. Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain. And in this lies my honour and my reward, – That whenever I come to the fountain to drink I find the living water itself thirsty; it drinks me while I drink it.” – Khalil Gibran

Monthly Archive: April 2017

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Tuesday with Bill-‘Hey Bill Nye, Our Brains Are All the Same – Why Aren’t People More Identical?’

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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Cure Diseases With a Cell not pill-Siddhartha Mukherjee

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. [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=”0″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true”...

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A Quantum Comedy-to cheer you up for the entire week!!

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. [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=”0″ show_progress_bar_color=”red” autohide_parameters=”1″ set_initial_volume=”true” initial_volume=”59″ disable_keyboard=”0″]0sCEiSmjcuM[/wpdevart_youtube]

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The myths we need to survive-Yuval Noah Harari(Quest sunday special)

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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A Scientist’s take about the Resurrection-(Easter day special from quest)

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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“Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets”Yuval Harari

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. [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=”65″ disable_keyboard=”0″]g6BK5Q_Dblo[/wpdevart_youtube]