MR.C's TOK Blog- BD Somani Int School -Mumbai: February 2014

Do you love a good mystery and ancient texts? Rajesh Rao sure does. He is a computational neuroscientist at my alma mater, the University of Washington in Seattle. He has devoted much of his professional life to cracking "the mother of all crossword puzzles": How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script!

Homework Roadmap February :

FEBRUARY 14TH BLOGPOST - students of Mr C - you will post here 100 -150 words on the Rosetta Stone or the Rosetta Stone for the INDUS SCRIPT - do you think that ancient written languages are important sources of knowledge and worthy of study?
Pondicherry School Trip JOURNAL -Week of Feb 17th - Principal Gardner has instructed all students to record their experiences in a TOK Journal using the WOK to inform your reflections. These will be collected and included in the Quarter Grade Assessment.
Friday 28th - BLOG POST Students will post a comment on any aspect of the Van de Lagemaat chapter on LANGUAGE. You may also consider the changing forms of English through 'Rap' and other vocabularies specific to certain groups.

Scientists who have reviewed What the Bleep Do We Know!? have described distinct assertions made in the film as pseudoscience.^[12]^[13] Lisa Randall refers to the film as "the bane of scientists".^[14] Amongst the assertions in the film that have been challenged are that water molecules can be influenced by thought (as popularized by Masaru Emoto), that meditation can reduce violent crime rates,^[15] and that quantum physics implies that "consciousness is the ground of all being." The film was also discussed in a letter published in Physics Today that challenges how physics is taught, saying teaching fails to "expose the mysteries physics has encountered [and] reveal the limits of our understanding." In the letter, the authors write "the movie illustrates the uncertainty principle with a bouncing basketball being in several places at once. (Film source youtube and text wikipedia)