Thus spoke Neil Tyson
The astrophysicist joins us to talk about the new season of his National Geographic series, StarTalk see this wiki page
The quest-a thirst unquenchable ..
Cyber Risks Compound with Technology Adoption-(Matthew Rosenquist, Cybersecurity Strategist)
Just how reliant are we on computing infrastructure? Sometimes it takes just a little outage to get a taste of the interwoven dependency we don’t readily see It can be small. The international travelers landing in U.S. airports on January 3rd, one of the busiest travel days of the year,...
Deceptive Spice Extract Offers Cautionary Tale for Chemists(Quest Sunday reading)
Inside the golden-yellow spice turmeric lurks a chemical deceiver: curcumin, a molecule that is widely touted as having medicinal activity, but which also gives false signals in drug screening tests. For years, chemists have urged caution about curcumin and other compounds that can mislead naive drug hunters. Now,...
Doubts about Deepak Chopra –
Has the holistic-health mogul overstated the health benefits of meditation and other spiritual practices? A key to Deepak Chopra’s success has been his monetization of spiritual practices and promotion of their health benefits. But has he crossed an ethical line by suggesting that meditation and other mind-practices can “heal”...
How Do Brain Cells Tell Us Where We’re Going?(quest week end reading)
New findings provide a more complex profile of the brain’s “internal GPS” How do humans and other animals find their way from A to B? This apparently simple question has no easy answer. But after decades of extensive research, a picture of how the brain encodes space and...
swachh bharat-how to make it happen-from chalta hai to Kaam Chalu Mooh Bandh
The Ugly Indian is an anonymous collective that does not talk to media, wants no publicity and works with the motto – Only Work No Talk. However, they made an exception for TEDxBangalore so that they could open up the question of why we as Indians are okay...
