Category: Saturday with Budthu (SwB)

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How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong(Quest week end thoughts)

In 2011, when Stanford computer scientists Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig came up with the bright idea of streaming their robotics lectures over the Internet, they knew it was an inventive departure from the usual college course. For hundreds of years, professors had lectured to groups of no...

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Miscellaneous “Alternative Medicines”(Quest science month special)

There are recurrent memes or myths in CAM( complementary and alternative medicine) that refuse to die. Like zombies, they keep rising up again no matter how many times they have been debunked. This lecture Includes a survey of some of the truly bizarre odds and ends that can...

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Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things- Michael Shermer(Quest Science month special)

Every day, we see intelligent people embracing unintelligent things. They’re skeptical in some areas of their lives, gullible in others. They seem to shift from logical to illogical at the drop of a hat. Maybe this refers to another. Perhaps it describes ourselves. In this conversation, Seth Andrews...

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Children of Africa” (The Story of Us)(Quest Science month special)

A musical celebration of humanity, its origins, and achievements, contrasted with a somber look at our environmentally destructive tendencies and deep similarities with other primates. Featuring Jacob Bronowski, Alice Roberts, Carolyn Porco, Jane Goodall, Robert Sapolsky, Neil deGrasse Tyson and David Attenborough.

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Naturopathy and Herbal Medicines-pseudoscience??(Quest science month special)

Naturopathy is an ill-defined system based on vitalistic mythology; it combines commonsense health and nutrition measures and rational use of a few herbs with a huge variety of unscientific practices and anti-medical double-talk. What naturopaths do that is good is no different from what MDs do, and what...