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Corona Special / For members / pleasure of knowledge / show case-technical / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published April 4, 2020 · Last modified April 5, 2020
The 2009 H1N1, or Swine Flu, pandemic took the world’s health experts by surprise. Looking back, journalist Laurie Garrett and public health scientist Michael Osterholm each give their take on how well the world responded to the threat, what mistakes they made, and what the lessons learned can...
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by thequestforum · Published December 2, 2019
Adapted from a provocative book by Brian Greene, this deeply engrossing documentary — which originally aired on PBS’s NOVA in three parts — attempts to explain the controversial string theory, a complicated scientific proposal that, in short, posits a single explanation for many of the universe’s mysteries. As...
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by thequestforum · Published November 25, 2019
Facebook is a company that has grown from nothing to be worth half a trillion dollars in just 15 years. Today nearly a third of all humans are using it, and yet we rarely get to see the people actually in charge of the biggest social network in...
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by thequestforum · Published October 29, 2019
We celebrate 150 years of the Periodic Table and Mendeleev’s genius by braving the elements from Argon to Zinc in this demonstration filled show Dr Peter Wothers is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Chemistry...
Change Agent / For members / show case-technical
by thequestforum · Published September 15, 2019 · Last modified September 20, 2019
https://thequestforum.org/quiz/engineersday19/index.html An Engineers Day is celebrated in India on September 15 every year as a tribute to India’s greatest engineer and Bharat Ratna, Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Born on 15 September 1861 in a Telugu speaking family, Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was an Indian engineer, scholar, statesman, and the 19th Diwan of...
For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB) / show case-technical / View from Giants' shoulder
by thequestforum · Published September 14, 2019 · Last modified September 22, 2019
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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by thequestforum · Published September 5, 2019
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by taking the first steps on the moon. His “one small step” took decades of research, planning, and innovation from more than 400,000 engineers, scientists, and other technical professionals who were involved in the historic moon mission. Now, 50 years...
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by thequestforum · Published December 11, 2018
“You don’t need anyone’s permission to make something great.” Massimo Banzi Massimo Banzi helped invent the Arduino, a tiny, easy-to-use open-source microcontroller that’s inspired thousands of people around the world to make the coolest things they can imagine — from toys to satellite gear.
While it is easy to extoll—and to exaggerate—the seductive promise of the new, its coming will be a complicated, gradual, and lengthy process constrained by many realities.Vaclav Smil When a bright new idea comes along, it’s easy to imagine a fantastic future for it. Perhaps the best example of...
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by thequestforum · Published September 19, 2018
Disk drives are reaching their limits, but magnetic tape just gets better and better By Mark Lantz It should come as no surprise that recent advances in big-data analytics and artificial intelligence have created strong incentives for enterprises to amass information about every measurable aspect of their businesses. And financial...
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