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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Tuesday with Bill-How Do I Engage Skeptics in Meaningful Climate Change Discussion?’

Transcript – Danny Miller: Hello Bill. My name is Danny Miller. Politically I tend to be conservative. I believe that anthropogenic global warming is real and that the Big Bang Theory and evolution are perfectly valid theories. Obviously this puts me at odds with most people in my...

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Mindfulness is Powerful, But Keep Religion Out of It -Sam Harris

Sam Harris says that stress-reductive benefits of meditation are rather trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the self. And though such mindfulness practices can and should be approached secularly, the business of religion is all too often a forced and unnecessary part...

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What We Cannot Know(the Royal institute lecture (Quest Sunday special)

Is it possible that we will one day know everything? Or are there fields of research that will always lie beyond the bounds of human comprehension? Marcus du Sautoy(click here to know about him ) investigates.Former Christmas Lecturer Marcus du Sautoy will lead us on a thought-provoking expedition...

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We Need to Teach Kids Creative Thinking-

“Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking,” says the professor and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss. “And therefore what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.” Transcript – Education is far less about a set...

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Quantum Computers Ready to Leap Out of the Lab in 2017

Google, Microsoft and a host of labs and start-ups are racing to turn scientific curiosities into working machines Quantum computing has long seemed like one of those technologies that are 20 years away, and always will be. But 2017 could be the year that the field sheds its research-only...

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Detox Scams are Worthless and Potentially Dangerous-A case report of a healthy woman

A case report of a healthy woman who landed in intensive care due to her New Year’s detox regimen highlights that detox treatments are a dangerous scam.   A recent case report in BMJ Case Reports tells the story of a 47 year old healthy woman who decided...

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Royal Institute Christmas Lectures (Carl Sagan)-1977- The Earth as a Planet-(A quest new year week special)

In this Christmas Lecture, American astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan (click here to see his wiki page) explores planet Earth and the place, scale and geometry of the “pale blue dot” in the Solar System. Sagan provides a unique insight into the history of our knowledge of the...