The quest-a thirst unquenchable..
Quest - a thrust unquestionable..
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB)
by Bala Prasad · Published May 6, 2017 · Last modified May 5, 2017
To introduce you to the kind of really silly material that I regularly receive for consideration and can deal with only briefly, I ask you to consider this item: From Paris, France, I received a 102-page book—in French. Its title translates as: Released from Mathematics, to Finally Know...
For members / pleasure of knowledge / the quest academy-Quest e-Gurukulam
by thequestforum · Published May 6, 2017
In a dystopian world, your resistance group is humanity’s last hope. Unfortunately, you’ve all been captured by the tyrannical rulers and brought to the ancient coliseum for their deadly entertainment. Will you be able to solve the passcode riddle and get everyone out safely?
Much like the invention of the telescope forever changed the way humans view the universe, the ability to generate and analyze large amounts of data is helping us to see our world like never before. At the 2016 World Science Festival, computational social scientist Duncan Watts discussed how...
“IEEE’s tagline means completeness. The idea is that advancement of technology should be inclusive – benefiting all and not only a few,” says Kartik Kulkarni, former chair of the IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) program and current IEEE and IEEE Computer Society member. We spoke...
curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published May 5, 2017 · Last modified May 4, 2017
Richard Dawkins asks Neil deGrasse about what are his thoughts on the probability of life existing elsewhere in the universe. Neil is very positive about having life as the basic ingredients for having life are in abundance in the universe, as we are mostly made up of carbon....
A moon/candle in the dark night / curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published May 5, 2017 · Last modified May 4, 2017
curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
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...
curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge
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...
For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published May 3, 2017 · Last modified May 2, 2017
An atheist’s take on purpose of life.
