Category: Quest to share

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The Living Body – Our Extraordinary Life (Quest documentary of the week)

  With meticulous and startling detail, The Living Body examines the miracle of the human species from birth to death. The journey of a human life – the inner processes that bind us all – has rarely been rendered with such stunning clarity and insight. An Emmy-winning feature...

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Next Generation Solar Cells _ Lowering Costs, Improving Performance and Scale-MIT PV group

5/05/2009 6:00 PM MuseumTonio Buonassisi, Assistant Professor, Laboratory for Photovoltaic ResearchDescription: According to Tonio Buonassisi, we’re “on the cusp” of achieving a competitive technology for capturing the limitless energy of the sun. Buonassisi, in conversation with an MIT Museum audience, describes how, with the work of MIT and...

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Socrates-The father of western philosophy and ”Gadfly”

Here is a man who lived during  470/469 – 399 BC period and known as the founder of western philosophy He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and  Xenophon .We the quest forum has been quoting him...

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What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? (TED education

What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that you can never simultaneously know the exact position and the exact speed of an object. Why not? Because everything in the universe behaves like both a particle and a wave at the same time. Chad Orzel...