Category: pleasure of knowledge
Big Think-Richard Dawkins
The Fact of Evolution, Natural Selection, Rationality of Sex,The Riddle of Consciousness, Richard Dawkins’s Faith, The Making of a Scientific Legend, Richard Dawkins Can Pass as a Cricket, Letting Science Inform Morality, Richard Dawkins on Canning Bill O’Reilly, Richard Dawkins Imagines a World Without God, The Importance of...
The Importance of Doing Useless Things-Richard Dawkins
From poetry and ballet to mathematics and being clever, life is laden with frivolous pursuits that hold no bearing on our ability to survive. However, Dawkins explains that the ability to perform such actions comes as a byproduct of the evolution of the human brain, perhaps because being...
Try solving “Einstein’s Riddle”??
A complex riddle involving a stolen exotic fish and a long list of suspects!!
Science and the Essence of Being Human-To Un-weave a Rainbow
As long ago as the early 19th century, the poet Keats bemoaned the washing away of the world’s beauty and mystery in the wake of natural philosophy’s reductionist insights—its tendency to “unweave a rainbow.” Two centuries later, the tentacles of science have reached far further, wrapping themselves around...
Try solving this riddle?
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?
Is Facebook the New Telescope?
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...
Re-engineering Technology for Lesser Served Communities in SIGHT-Advancing Technology for Humanity-IEEE
“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...
