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: pleasure of knowledge

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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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What’s Next For Transistors-New FETs, qubits, neuromorphic approaches, and advanced packaging

The IC industry is moving in several different directions at once. The largest chipmakers continue to march down process nodes with chip scaling, while others are moving towards various advanced packaging schemes. On top of that, post-CMOS devices, neuromorphic chips and quantum computing are all in the works....

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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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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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Edge

 (To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves) It was launched in 1996 as the online version of “The Reality Club”...

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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...