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

Category: A moon/candle in the dark night

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A moon/candle in the dark night / webscape

Resources of interest to skeptics from around the web

CSI Fellows Astrology and Astronomy Creationism Health and Psychology Publications Skeptic Blogs Skeptical Forums Skeptical Organizations and Services Skeptical Websites Transcendental Meditation UFOs Urban Legends CSI Fellows Stephen Barrett M.D., psychiatrist, author, consumer advocate, Allentown, Pa. Andrew Fraknoi Astronomer, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, Calif. Elizabeth Loftus Professor...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB)

Science as a Tool of Democracy-Carl Sagan(Quest Sunday special reading)

“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge… It can tell us when we’re being lied to. It provides a mid-course correction to our mistakes.” “Without science, democracy is impossible,” Bertrand Russell wrote in his foundational 1926 treatise on education and...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge

Give the public the tools to trust scientists

Anita Makri argues that the form of science communicated in popular media leaves the public vulnerable to false certainty. What is truth? How do we find it and does it still carry weight in public debate? Given recent political events, these are important and urgent questions. But of...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / webscape

Snopes.com-A site to lead you from misinformation-online touchstone of rumor research.

It is a website covering urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of unknown or questionable origin.It is a well-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture,[5] receiving more than 300,000 visits a day. The snopes.com website was founded by David Mikkelson,...

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2017 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC TERM OR CONCEPT OUGHT TO BE MORE WIDELY KNOWN?-Michael Shermer-

Negativity Bias One of the most understated effects in all cognitive science is the psychology behind why negative events, emotions, and thoughts trump by a wide margin those that are positive. This bias was discovered and documented by the psychologists Paul Rozin and Edward Royzman in 2001, showing...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge

Vaccines Are Dangerous-Fact or Fiction?

The world greets newborn babies by bombarding them with everything from dust to disease-causing microbes. Babies can deftly parry exposures to certain harmful substances, thanks to antibodies passed onto them in the womb. But this kind of inherited immunity is short-lived, so a child must develop her own...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB)

Deceptive Spice Extract Offers Cautionary Tale for Chemists(Quest Sunday reading)

Inside the golden-yellow spice turmeric lurks a chemical deceiver: curcumin, a molecule that is widely touted as having medicinal activity, but which also gives false signals in drug screening tests. For years, chemists have urged caution about curcumin and other compounds that can mislead naive drug hunters.  Now,...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB)

Doubts about Deepak Chopra –

Has the holistic-health mogul overstated the health benefits of meditation and other spiritual practices? A key to Deepak Chopra’s success has been his monetization of spiritual practices and promotion of their health benefits. But has he crossed an ethical line by suggesting that meditation and other mind-practices can “heal”...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder

Mindfulness is Powerful, But Keep Religion Out of It -Sam Harris

Sam Harris says that stress-reductive benefits of meditation are rather trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the self. And though such mindfulness practices can and should be approached secularly, the business of religion is all too often a forced and unnecessary part...