The quest-a thirst unquenchable ..
Starting today!! watch daily the shots of awe created by Jason Silva(Want to know more about him click here ) Shots of Awe, a short documentary series produced and distributed by TubeTest (a Discovery Digital Network) that summates some of mankind’s most daunting scientific pursuits into fun and exciting videos that...
Michael Shermer debunks myths, superstitions and urban legends — and explains why we believe them. Along with publishing Skeptic Magazine, he’s author of Why People Believe Weird Things and The Mind of the Market. Michael Shermer has exposed fallacies behind intelligent design, 9/11 conspiracies, the low-carb...
A farmer had a dog who used to sit by the roadside waiting for vehicles to come around. As soon as one came he would run down the road, barking and trying to overtake it. One day a neighbor asked the farmer “Do you think your dog is...
As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their...
A 24 year old boy seeing out from the train’s window shouted… “Dad, look the trees are going behind!” Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year old’s childish behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed… “Dad, look the clouds are running with us!” The...
A little boy came running excitedly to his mother saying: “Mom, there is a boy out there in the woods who is mocking me. Everything I say he says after me. If I say: “Hello,” he says: “Hello.” When I say “Who are you?” he says: “Who are...
A young woman who was invited to go rock climbing. Although she was scared to death, she went with her group to a tremendous granite cliff. In spite of her fear, she put on the gear, took a holdon the rope, and started up the face of that rock....
Heard of carl Sagan (if not read here ) Sagan reflects on the many types of deception to which we’re susceptible — from psychics to religious zealotry to paid product endorsements by scientists, which he held in especially low regard, noting that they “betray contempt for the intelligence of their...
Every day Nasrudin went to beg for alms in the market, and people used to make fun of him by playing the following trick: they would show him two coins, one worth ten times more than the other, and Nasrudin would always choose the smaller coin. The story...
Naranath Bhranthan’s most favorite pastime was rolling a big stone to the top of the nearby hill. The stone was so big and the hill so steep that, when he push up the stone one foot up, the stone will come two feet down. But he will not stop...