10 Failed Climate Change Denial Arguments

Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death from the Skies!
 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/10/28/_10_failed_climate_change_denial_arguments.html 

Haydn concert interrupted by cell phone - emotional reaction controlled by reason

Many such venues have 'jammers' which jam the phone signal during the performance. Is this a good idea? Did you like the way the pianist controlled his reaction? Ways of knowing - listening/sense perception, emotion/frustration/ reason as a form of controlled reaction to an event.

FILM - TRUE STORY -Shattered Glass - A Movie/Reality Comparison: PART ONE - ETHICS and Journalism

                                                                               Stephen Glass was fired from his position as reporter at the respected "New Republic" magazine for inventing news stories.

The knowledge question raised by this true story of academic dishonesty in the media is: How can we know the difference between fiction and non-fiction in the modern news media?

The true story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles. 
The New York Times has an excellent article here:http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/12/us/rechecking-a-writer-s-facts-a-magazine-uncovers-fiction.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Human Sciences - What Do Academics Think of 'Breaking Bad' TV Show?

What Do Academics Think of 'Breaking Bad'?

BBC 100 Women Series of Reports - women and men should be treated equally and fairly in society

"Father in Heaven" in Irish Athair ar Neamh-Enya - a song in praise of God from Ireland's Enya

Duarte Design's Five Rules for Presentations by Nancy Duarte

A 'NO TALKING' RESTAURANT LAUNCHED IN NEW YORK IS BOOMING

Mars Pictures, Mars Photos -- National Geographic

Mars Pictures, Mars Photos -- National Geographic

Reshaping beauty - who decides what is beautiful and who is beautiful?

BBC News - JP Morgan fined a record $920m for 'London Whale' trading

How do we ensure ethical behaviour in the financial services industry?

What is art? What is digital art? Is it creative? What about copywright issues?

Artists Rob and Nick Carter have breathed new life into a 17th Century Golden Age master by digitising it and subtly animating it. The result is "Transforming Still Life Painting After Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder's Vase With Flowers in a Window" - a fascinating piece of digital fine art that the result of 2.5 years and thousands of hours of work.

China Lost 14 Million People in World War II. Why Is This Forgotten?

China Lost 14 Million People in World War II. Why Is This Forgotten? Historian Rana Mitter believes a better understanding of China's future actions can follow a truer understanding of its World War II past. The Japanese occupation of China was noted for its brutality. The Japanese were allies of the Nazis and believed that they were racially superior to other races. The Japanese view of the war argues that it was a war of liberation against European colonialists but why did so many Asian people die at the hands of Japanese soldiers? China and Korea remain bitter about this issue and the Chinese are also angry that their part of World War 2 is overshadowed by the stories of Pearl Harbour, D-Day or Stalingrad. How many Western historians have bothered to study the Chinese experience of the war?

(BBC) The Story of God - Part 1: Life the Universe and Everything

Buddha A Documentary About Buddhism - YouTube

BBC World Service Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet: Why is it so loved?

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet: Why is it so loved?

By Shoku Amirani & Stephanie Hegarty BBC World Service

Continue reading the main story

Kahlil Gibran is said to be one of the world's bestselling poets, and his life has inspired a play touring the UK and the Middle East. But many critics have been lukewarm about his merits. Why, then, has his seminal work, The Prophet, struck such a chord with generations of readers?

London school bans pupils from using 'innit', 'like', and 'bare'

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/15/london-school-bans-pupils-slang-innit

Knowledge Question - Did Columbus Really Discover America?

NOTE- In this short video we see and hear multiple knowledge claims about who reached America first. Be careful with the use of the word 'discovered' regarding piece of land already occupied by other people. The use of certain words in history can help 'soften' colonialism or even try to justify it. Was America 'lost' before it was discovered by Europeans or the Chinese for that matter.

Daniel Pearl World Music Days 2011

                                                                                 

BBC - Life in Hitler's Germany Part 1

Secret Pakistan : Documentary by BBC Part 1 (Double Cross)

Hitler's Death The Final Report - Operation Myth

Fermat's Last Theorem (Complete)

How to do a TOK presentation right!

The West Wing - Why are we changing maps? Do maps show fairly or exaggerate the size of Europe? Is it a legacy of colonialism?

My thanks to Grade 12 IB student Maitreya Kundalia for sending me this clip to share with our students and readers around the world.

Critical Thinking - the key skill we foster in Theory of Knowledge

How to apply this in a TOK Oral?  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17045169

Nearly three decades after the Falklands War, tensions between the UK and Argentina have resurfaced. The UK insists the Falkland Islands are rightfully the UK's. The Argentine government maintains the islands, which it calls Las Malvinas, belong to it. But what are the details of each side's legal, historical and geographical claims for ownership? 

Was the moon landing faked? - Mythbusters Discovery Channel proves it was genuine.

Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally: Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk

A Brief History of the USA - Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore

Song for Mahatma Gandhi's birthday - we need leaders like Gandhi and King in our world.

 

BD Somani International School Students enjoy the outdoors,  with Ms Janet and Mr Andrew during our recent trip to Igatpuri.

Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing - Compulsive and compulsory.

TOK is about real people and real issues - who constructs our notions of beauty?

Skinny fashion models can lead to ANOREXIA in the fashion industry. Notions of what looks beautiful has led to a boom in cosmetic surgery in the world.
Areas of Knowledge - human sciences, psychology, advertising images of female beauty, Gender and ETHICS, -WAYS OF KNOWING - Sense Perception, Language, Emotion, Reason.

Remember if you choose to present on these topics you need to base it on a real life situation.

"Sugar Coating" IB TOK Presentation HD - Student Presentation

The students clearly worked hard at this presentation. The personal examples used were excellent. Perhaps it would have been enhanced if they had used the terminology of TOK?

• Our Ways of Knowing are ........
• Our Areas of Knowledge are.....
• Our first KNOWLEDGE CLAIM is.........
• Our first COUNTER CLAIM to that original knowledge claim is......
• Knower's perspective - You should  include at least one example from their IB experience in any class, in CAS or while researching topics in TOK itself, while reading alone, reflecting or engaged with others in a classroom or in a coffee shop, link the presentation to your growth through critical thinking and reflection in an authentic way - avoid maudlin sentimentality or posturing....

MR.C.'s TOK Blog BD Somani Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: Students - Planning TOK Oral Presentation

MR.C.'s TOK Blog BD Somani Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: Students - Planning TOK Oral Presentation: http://mrhoyestokwebsite.com/Presentations/presentations_main.htm Excellent planning resources on this website from Mr. Hoye. Students sh...

MR.C.'s TOK Blog BD Somani Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: Oral Presentations can be about non-political topi...

MR.C.'s TOK Blog BD Somani Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: Oral Presentations can be about non-political topi...: The breakfast hype http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/18/health/he-breakfast18

MR.C.'s TOK Blog BD Somani Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: TOK ORAL PRESENTATION RESOURCES

MR.C.'s TOK Blog BD Somani Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: TOK ORAL PRESENTATION RESOURCES: click on website link here for resources - many thanks to Vidhi for this link - if any other student finds useful links in English or TOK p...

MR.C.'s TOK Blog BD Somani Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: TOK ORAL PRESENTATION TIPS

MR.C.'s TOK Blog BD Somani Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: TOK ORAL PRESENTATION TIPS: SAMPLE TOK ORAL PRESENTATIONS .  In many of my earlier posts I have stated beside the video that these topics are suitable for TOK or...

JOHNSHOPKINS - MEDICAL Ethical Questions of Stem Cell Research

                                                                             

War/Ethics/ Defence Spending/ Poverty? The Four $1.8 Billion Destroyers Circling Syria

                                                  In his famous anti-war address "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence," delivered 4 April 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. observed that "[a] nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."