The quest-a thirst unquenchable..
Quest - a thrust unquestionable..
For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published January 17, 2017 · Last modified January 16, 2017
Transcript – Josh: Hey Bill. Do you ever think about your mortality? Does it ever bother you to think that one day you just won’t exist? I know you’re not religious but do you think anything happens when we die or is it just over, no thoughts, nothing...
A moon/candle in the dark night / curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge
by thequestforum · Published January 16, 2017 · Last modified January 15, 2017
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...
For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published January 16, 2017
The astrophysicist joins us to talk about the new season of his National Geographic series, StarTalk see this wiki page
Just how reliant are we on computing infrastructure? Sometimes it takes just a little outage to get a taste of the interwoven dependency we don’t readily see It can be small. The international travelers landing in U.S. airports on January 3rd, one of the busiest travel days of the year,...
A moon/candle in the dark night / curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB)
by thequestforum · Published January 15, 2017 · Last modified January 14, 2017
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,...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB)
by thequestforum · Published January 14, 2017
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”...
curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge
by thequestforum · Published January 14, 2017
curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge
by thequestforum · Published January 14, 2017
New findings provide a more complex profile of the brain’s “internal GPS” How do humans and other animals find their way from A to B? This apparently simple question has no easy answer. But after decades of extensive research, a picture of how the brain encodes space and...
curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published January 11, 2017
by thequestforum · Published January 11, 2017 · Last modified January 10, 2017
A majestic musical tribute to the first law of thermodynamics, and energy itself.
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