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

An Evening With James Randi “our hero”-NECSS 2017

In this recording, Mr. Randi presents his lecture, “Magic, Illusion, and the Paranormal,” followed by a question and answer period with the audience (The Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS, pronounced as “nexus”) is a four-day conference focusing on science and skepticism held annually in New York...

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Undermining democracy -| Carole Cadwalladr

In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK’s super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters — and linking the...

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Making sense-Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe-Sam Harris

n this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Roger McNamee about his book Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for thirty-five years. He has cofounded successful venture funds including Elevation with U2’s Bono. He was...

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The Map of Misunderstanding (with Daniel Kahneman)-Sam Harris-Quest weekend special

Daniel Kahneman is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work with Amos Tversky on decision-making....

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Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe- Roger McNamee&Sam Harris(Quest Saturday special)

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Roger McNamee about his book :Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. (If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy,...

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WHEN TECH KNOWS YOU BETTER THAN YOU KNOW YOURSELF- Noah Harari and Tristan Harris interviewed by Wired(Quest saturday special)

WHEN YOU ARE 2 years old, your mother knows more about you than you know yourself. As you get older, you begin to understand things about your mind that even she doesn’t know. But then, says Yuval Noah Harari, another competitor joins the race: “You have this corporation or...