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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Ask Me Almost Anything (Science Salon special-Michael Shermer

In this 100th episode of the Science Salon podcast Dr. Shermer gives a brief overview and history of the salon and how it evolved from the Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, which began in 1992, along with the founding of the Skeptics Society, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit science...

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Michael Shermer on the Politics of Belief

This lecture is part of a course that Dr. Shermer teaches at Chapman University called Skepticism 101 Dr. Michael Shermer explains how we arrived at the Left-Right spectrum, both historically and evolutionarily, and the numerous metaphors used to wrap our minds around such complex systems as politics and...

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Factiness -Are we living in a post-truth world-Michael Shermer

n 2005 the American Dialect Society’s word of the year was “truthiness,” popularized by Stephen Colbert on his news show satire The Colbert Report, meaning “the truth we want to exist.” In 2016 the Oxford Dictionaries nominated as its word of the year “post-truth,” which it characterized as...

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skepticism 101 lectures-Michael Shermer

https://www.skeptic.com/tag/skepticism-101-lectures/ Skepticism 101: How to Think Like a Scientist covers a wide range of topics, from critical thinking, reasoning, rationality, cognitive biases and how thinking goes wrong, and the scientific methods, to actual claims and whether or not there is any truth to them, e.g., ESP, ETIs, UFOs,...

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Michael Shermer on Cognitive Biases & How Thinking Goes Wrong (and Right!)

Dr. Michael Shermer reviews the many ways that our attempts to understand the truth about the world are derailed by cognitive biases, including the anchoring bias, the representative bias, the availability bias, the confirmation bias, the hindsight bias, the self-serving bias, and even the bias bias. This lecture...

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Coronavirus & Conspiracy Theories, with Michael Shermer & Neil deGrasse Tyson

What’s the difference between being a skeptic and believing in conspiracy theories? How do you remain skeptical without falling down a rabbit hole? On this episode of StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice catch up with Michael Shermer, Founding Publisher of Skeptic Magazine and...

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How scientists are fighting the coronavirus: A three minute guide-Nature

Scientists across the world are working together to fight the novel coronavirus. Nature looks at three fields of research which are vital to keeping this outbreak under control: epidemiology, virology and biomedical science. Research in these areas will be key, alongside collaboration and the open sharing of data...

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Nicholas Christakis with Dr. Vivek Murthy: The Enduring Impact Of Coronavirus

Nicholas Christakis is a physician and sociologist at Yale University who explores the ancient origins and modern implications of human nature. Christakis’ research focuses on the social, mathematical and biological rules that form social networks as well as the implications of human connection that influences thoughts, feelings and...

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Michael Shermer with Nicholas Christakis — Profound & Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on How We Live

Apollo’s Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range...