The quest-a thirst unquenchable..
Quest - a thrust unquestionable..
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Quest to share / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published March 12, 2021
Street Epistemology is a technique based on Socratic questioning to help people reflect on the reasons and methods they use to conclude their deeply held beliefs are true. This skill is incredibly important to enable you to have productive and non-confrontational discussions with friends, family, or online discussions....
A moon/candle in the dark night / Quest to share / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 18, 2020
Dr. Michael Shermer reviews the many ways that our attempts to understand the truth about the world are derailed by cognitive biases, including the anchoring bias, the representative bias, the availability bias, the confirmation bias, the hindsight bias, the self-serving bias, and even the bias bias. This lecture...
Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Quest to share
by Bala Prasad · Published December 17, 2020
Scientists across the world are working together to fight the novel coronavirus. Nature looks at three fields of research which are vital to keeping this outbreak under control: epidemiology, virology and biomedical science. Research in these areas will be key, alongside collaboration and the open sharing of data...
Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Quest to share
by Bala Prasad · Published December 9, 2020
Leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates rely on new technologies that have fast-tracked development and testing. Vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna have completed early phase 3 clinical trials and are reportedly under review at the US FDA for emergency use authorization (EUA) although safety surveillance continues. This video explains the...
Corona Special / For members / Quest to share / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 9, 2020 · Last modified December 12, 2020
Yale Sterling Professor Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH returns to JAMA’s Q&A series to discuss the surge in US cases and other recent pandemic developments. Dr. Christakis is author of the recently published book “Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We...
Corona Special / For members / Quest to share / View from Giants' shoulder
by Bala Prasad · Published December 8, 2020 · Last modified December 12, 2020
A review by David Quammen is the author, most recently, of “The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life.” Nicholas A. Christakis https://sociology.yale.edu/people/nicholas-christakis THE WAVES COME AT US. We are now being hit with the third wave of case numbers in the Covid-19 tsunami and the first...
COVID-19 is far from the first pandemic to wreak havoc in the world. A long line of infectious diseases have devastated and in some cases destroyed entire societies. Almost all of them started in animals and made the jump to humans. We are terrified of pandemics. And with...
More than 7 million Americans have suffered from COVID-19, including Pres. Trump. Emmy winner Jeffrey Wright narrates the documentary detailing how four years of Trump’s actions brought America to this moment.
Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Quest to share
by Bala Prasad · Published December 7, 2020
How are democracies and authoritarian states reacting to the coronavirus pandemic? An investigative team is looking for clues worldwide and interviewing virologists, health experts and citizens. Where is the fight against COVID-19 working and where isn’t it? Nine months after the new coronavirus first appeared, the documentary “The...
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