The quest-a thirst unquenchable ..

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Big Think-Richard Dawkins

The Fact of Evolution, Natural Selection, Rationality of Sex,The Riddle of Consciousness, Richard Dawkins’s Faith, The Making of a Scientific Legend, Richard Dawkins Can Pass as a Cricket, Letting Science Inform Morality, Richard Dawkins on Canning Bill O’Reilly, Richard Dawkins Imagines a World Without God, The Importance of...

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Populism and the Fate of the West -RSA(Quest Sunday special)

When faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth and solidifying power, and for citizens to look upon one another with suspicion, incomprehension and mistrust. But as mainstream technocrats are purged, and populists fall on their own...

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Science and the Essence of Being Human-To Un-weave a Rainbow

As long ago as the early 19th century, the poet Keats bemoaned the washing away of the world’s beauty and mystery in the wake of natural philosophy’s reductionist insights—its tendency to “unweave a rainbow.” Two centuries later, the tentacles of science have reached far further, wrapping themselves around...

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It Just Never Stops …A Magician in the Lab-James Randi

To introduce you to the kind of really silly material that I regularly receive for consideration and can deal with only briefly, I ask you to consider this item: From Paris, France, I received a 102-page book—in French. Its title translates as: Released from Mathematics, to Finally Know...