Pirates of Silicon Valley trailer

APPLE Steve Jobs (r.i.p.) Stanford commencement speech 2005

B.D. SOMANI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Chomsky dispels 9/11 conspiracies with sheer logic

Lynn Brewer- Enron Whistleblower

Corporate ethics and whistleblowers?

The beauty of ToK is that there are so many interesting areas for us to explore. On this blog, I will point you in several directions, you do not have to read or study in depth everything that is here, but you should at least make a brief note of the topic in your notebook. If do look into the topic, feel free to post a comment or question here or raise it during our weekly review of the blog in school. This article from "Time Magazine" is recommended for ToK students. In the aftermath of the attacks on New York (911), Coleen Rowley, herself an FBI agent, exposed inefficiencies in the intelligence community. Her story is an important for students searching for the truth about the failures of intelligence in 2001. There are stories here of two women blowing the whistle on corporate malpractice in WorldCom and Enron. "In a year when our trust in American institutions was tested, Sherron Watkins of Enron, Coleen Rowley of the FBI and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom found the strength to stand for what's right." Just google 'Time Magazine Person of the Year 2002' and you can read the article.

Grade X1 ToK students visit Grade X11 Mock Art Exhibition

Ms Zeba, IB Art Teacher explores the links between ToK and the Visual Arts at the exhibition.

Wednesday October 12th Emotion/Reason/Ethics

Hello Knowers and Enquirers - on Wednesday we enjoyed a visit to the Grade X11 Mock Art Exhibition. Ms Zeba gave a most interesting talk on the links between ToK and Art and held our group spellbound with her challenging observations on the topic and the work of the Grade X11 students. In class this week, we will continue with emotion and reason and we will start to probe the issue of Ethics, so put your thinking caps on and consider if there is a link between academic honesty and honesty within the worlds of business and politics. We have touched on this with Saket's presentation on the Bhopal tragedy and if this area of ethics interests you, then consider a documentary on Enron - "The Smartest Guys in the Room". This is available on youtube but it's quite long but worth the effort as there is material there that is quite informative and shocking. The alternative is to research the career of Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay on the internet. Both men were arrested when Enron collapsed and charged with fraud. Enron was the third largest corporate collapse in the history of America in 2002. It left thousands of employees jobless and they later discovered that the company shares they purchased for their pensions were worthless. http://www.youtube.com/user/GandhiandKing