MR.C's TOK Blog- BD Somani Int School -Mumbai: September 2013

Monday, September 23, 2013

BBC - look back in time 13.6 billion years to the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang.

"All this preparation has made me slightly paranoid and for good reason. I am about to enter the large clean room at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado where the mirrors for the $8.7 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are being built and tested. These will enable us to look back in time 13.6 billion years to the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang. They will be precise enough to capture single photons. And the slightest speck of dust or greasy fingerprint could ruin them."

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130923-most-complex-mirror-ever-built

RICHARD HOLLINGHAM BBC.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Mayday Air Crash Investigation - S11E07 - Bad Attitude [Korean Air Cargo...

What role does language and cultural norms play in human behaviour and decision making? How difficult is it to challenge cultural norms and traditions even to the point of death?

Vanilla Sky - Are you smart enough to engage with this film? We can steer our live through hard work and good choices but can we control it?

Can a constructed language be a way of knowing or experincing emotion through music and film?
International acclaim came with 1999's Ágætis byrjun (['au̯cai̯tɪs 'pɪrjʏn] "A Good Beginning"). The album's reputation spread by word of mouth over the following two years. Soon critics worldwide hailed it as one of the great albums of all time,^[4] and the band was playing support to established acts such asRadiohead. Three songs, "Ágætis byrjun", "Svefn-g-englar", and a live take of the then-unreleased "Njósnavélin" (later 'unnamed' "Untitled #4") appeared in the Cameron Crowe film Vanilla Sky. FIRST HERE IS HE HOLIWOOD TRAILER OF THE FILM.
It is very entertaining but like all films on this blog will challenge your critical thinking skills and your imagination.

All of the lyrics on ( ) are sung in Vonlenska, also known as Hopelandic, a constructed language without semantic meaning, technically glossolalia, which resembles the phonology of the Icelandic language. It has also been said that the listener is supposed to interpret their own meanings of the lyrics which can then be written in the blank pages in the album booklet