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Science Makes America Great:Dr.Michael Shermer Dear President Trump: Fifty-five years ago this week President John F. Kennedy hosted a dinner honoring Nobel Prize laureate scientists, remarking: I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White...
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by thequestforum · Published April 22, 2017 · Last modified April 21, 2017
In an enlightening and scientifically motivated talk, Dr.John Van Wyhe states that the popular narrative attached to Darwin and his discoveries are wide off the mark. Dr van Wyhe tells us why it is important to hear the true story behind Darwin and his work to understand their...
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by thequestforum · Published April 20, 2017 · Last modified April 19, 2017
Seventy thousand years ago, our human ancestors were insignificant animals, just minding their own business in a corner of Africa with all the other animals. But now, few would disagree that humans dominate planet Earth; we’ve spread to every continent, and our actions determine the fate of other...
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by thequestforum · Published April 20, 2017
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by thequestforum · Published April 19, 2017 · Last modified April 18, 2017
Prof.Harari again
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by thequestforum · Published April 18, 2017 · Last modified April 16, 2017
Our brains are the same organ, but no way are we all the same people. So why do we like different things, if we’re all made of roughly the same parts? Everybody’s brain development is a little bit different, explains Bill Nye, whether that’s physiologically through chemical variations...
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by thequestforum · Published April 17, 2017 · Last modified April 16, 2017
Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease, take pill, kill something. But physician Siddhartha Mukherjee points to a future of medicine that will transform the way we heal.
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by Bala Prasad · Published April 16, 2017 · Last modified April 15, 2017
Professor Harari came to the Intelligence Squared stage to explain how the fictions that we believe in are an inseparable part of human culture and civilisation Myths. We tend to think they’re a thing of the past, fabrications that early humans needed to believe in because their understanding...
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by thequestforum · Published April 15, 2017 · Last modified April 9, 2017
That’s the question Richard Dawkins seeks to answer as he continues his exploration of the big questions of life in a world shaking off religious faith. In a journey that takes him from the casinos of Las Vegas to Buddhist monasteries in the foothills of the Himalayas, Richard...
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by Bala Prasad · Published April 15, 2017 · Last modified April 14, 2017
The talk addresses and argues that the future belongs to techno-religions, which promise salvation through technology, and which are already gathering believers in places such as Silicon Valley.
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