Category: pleasure of knowledge

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Tape Storage Mounts a Comeback.”IEEE spectrum

Disk drives are reaching their limits, but magnetic tape just gets better and better By Mark Lantz It should come as no surprise that recent advances in big-data analytics and artificial intelligence have created strong incentives for enterprises to amass information about every measurable aspect of their businesses. And financial...

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TimesTalks | Yuval Noah Harari-21 lessons for 21st century

Bari Weiss, Op-Ed staff editor and writer at The New York Times, will join Yuval Noah Harari, historian, philosopher and international best-selling author of “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus” for a thought-provoking evening of conversation. Harari’s new book, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” untangles political, technological, social and...

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An Insider’s View of Medicine-Waking Up with Sam Harris

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Dr. Nina Shapiro about the practice of medicine. They discuss the unique resiliency of children, the importance of second opinions, bad doctors, how medical training has changed in recent years, medical uncertainty, risk perception, vaccine safety,...

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The Future of Humanity: Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation with Thomas L. Friedman(Quest special)

Yuval Noah Harari and Thomas L. Friedman discuss the big issues affecting our collective future, in a free-flowing conversation moderated by Rachel Dry. What are the biggest threats that currently face humanity? Where are the opportunities? Filmed in London (UK) on 19 March 2018, at an event produced...

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Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything-Royal Institution(Quest Sunday special)

What will the world of tomorrow be like? Kelly and Zach Weinersmith will give us a snapshot of the transformative technologies that are coming next, from space elevators to fusion-powered toasters, and explain how they will change our world in astonishing ways.Kelly Weinersmith is a Huxley Fellow at...