The quest-a thirst unquenchable..
Quest - a thrust unquestionable..
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by thequestforum · Published May 4, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2017
As a teenager in the ’40s, James Randi “would have gotten stoned” for being gay. But when he outed himself to the world in 2010, the reaction was “wonderful.” Question: Why did you decide to come out publicly at age 81?James Randi: Oh, well. I did it, first...
This short video was shot at SXSW this year, where the IEEE held a panel to discuss the future of computing Gordon Moore predicted that the number of components in integrated circuits would grow exponentially. Somehow, miraculously, that prediction held true for decades, giving the world progressively more...
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by thequestforum · Published May 4, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2017
There’s an organism that changed the world. It caused the first mass extinction in Earth’s history … and also paved the way for complex life. How? Anusuya Willis explains how cyanobacteria, simple organisms that don’t even have nuclei or any other organelles, wrote a pivotal chapter in the...
