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

The quest-a thirst unquenchable ..

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curiosity corner / For members / pleasure of knowledge

What’s Next For Transistors-New FETs, qubits, neuromorphic approaches, and advanced packaging

The IC industry is moving in several different directions at once. The largest chipmakers continue to march down process nodes with chip scaling, while others are moving towards various advanced packaging schemes. On top of that, post-CMOS devices, neuromorphic chips and quantum computing are all in the works....

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / Saturday with Budthu (SwB)

Science as a Tool of Democracy-Carl Sagan(Quest Sunday special reading)

“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge… It can tell us when we’re being lied to. It provides a mid-course correction to our mistakes.” “Without science, democracy is impossible,” Bertrand Russell wrote in his foundational 1926 treatise on education and...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge

Give the public the tools to trust scientists

Anita Makri argues that the form of science communicated in popular media leaves the public vulnerable to false certainty. What is truth? How do we find it and does it still carry weight in public debate? Given recent political events, these are important and urgent questions. But of...

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A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / webscape

Snopes.com-A site to lead you from misinformation-online touchstone of rumor research.

It is a website covering urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of unknown or questionable origin.It is a well-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture,[5] receiving more than 300,000 visits a day. The snopes.com website was founded by David Mikkelson,...