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: Saturday with Budthu (SwB)

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A moon/candle in the dark night / Quest to share / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder

Michael Shermer on Cognitive Biases & How Thinking Goes Wrong (and Right!)

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...

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Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder

Nicholas Christakis with Dr. Vivek Murthy: The Enduring Impact Of Coronavirus

Nicholas Christakis is a physician and sociologist at Yale University who explores the ancient origins and modern implications of human nature. Christakis’ research focuses on the social, mathematical and biological rules that form social networks as well as the implications of human connection that influences thoughts, feelings and...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder

Thus spoke the amazing Randi-Quest tribute to James Randi

James Randi talks about one of the most influential scientists of all time; Carl Sagan. Randi and Sagan were well acquainted, and Sagan once said of Randi: “We may not always agree with Randi, but we ignore him at our peril.” Watch this video to see what Randi...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder

Thus spoke the amazing Randi-Quest tribute to Randi

The James Randi Educational Foundation gets many applicants for it’s Million Dollar Challenge who claim to be able to dowse. Many say that they can detect things from Water, Gold, Money and the like. What many of them fail to do is to research the ideomotor effect. We...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder

James Randi- the forum’s guiding light in fighting against pseudoscience-A tribute

Known professionally as the Amazing Randi, he dedicated his life to exposing seers who did not see, healers who did not heal and many others. James Randi, a MacArthur award-winning magician who turned his formidable savvy to investigating claims of spoon bending, mind reading, fortunetelling, ghost whispering, water...

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How language transformed us-Quest weekend

Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of “social technology” that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation. (About the speaker: Mark Pagel builds statistical models to examine...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / View from Giants' shoulder

Vaccines-set the record straight- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with first-time comic co-host Felicia Madison and returning friend of the show and Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett, to debunk disinformation and get straight to the facts about vaccines. As we watch the rise of anti-science movements, it’s important to set the...

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For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / show case-technical / View from Giants' shoulder

A “living drug” that could change the way we treat cancer

Carl June is a renowned pioneer in the fight against cancer. Carl June’s revolutionary leukemia therapy, which was recently approved by the FDA, uses genetically engineered versions of a patient’s own T cells and is the first personalized cell therapy for cancer to be sanctioned in America. Developed...

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How Apple,Amazon,facebook and Google manipulate our emotions-Quest week end special

The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these four companies come to infiltrate our lives so completely? In a spectacular rant, Scott Galloway shares insights and eye-opening stats about their dominance and motivation — and...