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

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

Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and a Better Way to Think-Andy Norman

Philosopher Andy Norman answers the important questions impacting the world today. Why are ideologies poisoning public discourse? Why is extremism on the rise? How did we get here? What can we do about all of it? It turns out some influential assumptions are suppressing our culture’s “immune response”...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Quest to share / View from Giants' shoulder

A journey through Vaccine education during a global pandemic- Skeptical Inquirer

Dr. Sankar is the Science Advisor for ScienceUpFirst, a national anti-misinformation campaign in Canada that aims to combat misinformation around COVID-19. She is also the Science Communication lead for COVID-19 resources Canada, leading a COVID-19 discussion initiative. Dr. Sankar is passionate about countering misinformation and has been dispelling...

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Vaccines: A Measured Response:science behind the anti-vaccine movement!!

What is the science behind the anti-vaccine movement, and is it any good? Let’s find out! The Covid19 pandemic has brought the discussion about vaccine safety back into the headlines. And yet, despite media making it seem like a controversial issue debated over the last century, it’s not....

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The SARS-CoV-2 vaccine could end the pandemic-

Deciding between a vaccine and…an infection? A handy comparison of COVID-19 vaccines compared to COVID-19 infections. Evidence that has emerged on the Pfizer-BioNTech and also the Moderna vaccine give us good reason to be cautiously optimistic, perhaps for the first time in this pandemic. The fact that both...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / Corona Special / curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Quest to share / View from Giants' shoulder / webscape

Science based medicine-Need of the hour

Science-Based Medicine is dedicated to evaluating medical treatments and products of interest to the public in a scientific light, and promoting the highest standards and traditions of science in health care. Online information about alternative medicine is overwhelmingly credulous and uncritical, and even mainstream media and some medical...

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The origin of SARS-CoV-2, revisited-Quest special

Since early in the pandemic, scientists have overwhelmingly concluded that the evidence makes a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, a far more likely explanation for the pandemic than a laboratory origin. Over the last three weeks or so, however, there has been considerable chatter...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder

Sapiens and Pandemic: A Special Discussion with Yuval Noah Harari

Students in Japan engage in a virtual lesson from historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” regarding how clues from the past can be used to forecast what the future has in store. https://youtu.be/9drNVSuyp0w

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder

Michael Shermer w/ Helen Pluckrose-from Skeptic

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can...