23 Reasons to be Cheerful (Thanks to science)
Finish 2016 on a high note.
Category: Saturday with Budthu (SwB)
How to use rhetoric to get what you want-TED-ED
How do you get what you want, using just your words? Aristotle set out to answer exactly that question over two thousand years ago with a treatise on rhetoric. Camille A. Langston describes the fundamentals of deliberative rhetoric and shares some tips for appealing to an audience’s ethos,...
Understanding (and Refuting) the Arguments for God-Michael Shermer(quest Sunday special)
Michael Shermer (http://www.michaelshermer.com/) has made a career of skepticism — he is the founder of Skeptic, for one — but in his 2000 book, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, he does not come across as the hardcore atheist you might expect....
S.M.A.R.T goals-Saturday special
Creating S.M.A.R.T. Goals Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely Specific: A specific goal has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific goal you must answer the six “W” questions: *Who: Who is involved? *What: What do I want to accomplish? *Where: Identify a location....
scientific taxonomy of haters-Negin Farsad (Quest weekend special)
TED Fellow Negin Farsad ( read here about her )weaves comedy and social commentary to cleverly undercut stereotypes of her culture. In this uproarious talk/stand-up hybrid, Farsad speaks on her documentary, The Muslims Are Coming!, narrates her fight with the MTA in New York and offers a detailed breakdown...
How great leaders inspire action -(Week end special)
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership — starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers . Transcript of the talk (How do you explain when things don’t go as we assume?...
Why sitting is bad for you??-TED-Ed
Sitting down for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise. But nowadays, our lifestyles make us sit much more than we move around. Are our bodies built for such a sedentary existence? Murat Dalkilinç investigates the hidden risks of sitting down.
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator-Tim Urban(Quest sunday special)
This is one habit most us have and want to get rid of it.He is not offering a solution to it but he makes us aware of it and probably we can find our own solution to it. Let us listen to him Transcript of the talk In...
