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: View from Giants’ shoulder

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / View from Giants' shoulder

Pseudo-scientific and Paranormal Claims-James Randi(Quest Science month special)

Lecture is from the McGill University’s Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium on the confrontation and threat of pseudoscience in contemporary society. As one of the central figures in the area of “flim-flam,” James Randi has exposed fraud, deceit, cheats, fakes, liars, and charlatans with effervescent ease. Trained as...

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Tuesday with Bill-What Technology Can We Expect to Have 50 Years From Now?

If we could jump 50 years into the future, what will our world look like? Flying cars? Hologram phones? Bill Nye sees two technological paths ahead – and we’re in the fork between them at this very moment. Transcript Sailmen: Hey Bill. My name is Sailmen. I’m an...

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‘The Next Time You’re Abducted, Steal Something Off The Spaceship'(Neil Tyson)(Quest science month special)

Sometimes controversial, Neil deGrasse Tyson, 58, is one of the scientists who lobbied to have Pluto stripped of its status as the ninth planet from the sun. Tyson also says there is no reason to doubt the existence of life other than ours elsewhere in the universe, possibly...

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The Storytelling of Science ( Dawkins, Krauss, deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye .., )(Quest Science month special)

The Storytelling of Science features a panel of esteemed scientists, public intellectuals, and award-winning writers including well-known science educator Bill Nye, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, theoretical physicist Brian Greene, Science Friday’s Ira Flatow, popular science fiction writer Neal Stephenson, executive director of the World...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge / View from Giants' shoulder

Pseudoscience-Richard Feynman(Quest science month special)

This year as a part of science month celebrations one of the focal themes is the threat of pseudoscience. Kick starting it with the following: Transcripts Because of the success of science there is a kind of I think it kind of pseudoscience that social sciences an example...