John Polkinghorne - God and Science 1of3

  FIRST VIDEO :John Polkinghorne is a former Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University, Dean of Trinity Hall and President of Queens College Cambridge. Here he discusses his views on the harmony between science and faith. He is a scientist and Anglican priest in the Church of England.                                       

     

Morgan Freeman hosts "Through the wormhole - Is there a creator?" The second video is from Discovery Channel and explores knowledge claims for a supreme being Creator and other explanations of the origins of the universe. 

Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain

Some great TOK WEBSITES

http://mrsmithsibwebsite.weebly.com/tok-assessment.html

http://mrhoyestokwebsite.com/

http://edrontheoryofknowledge.blogspot.in/ 

TOK HOMEWORK DUE HERE FRIDAY 14TH LANGUAGE AS WOK

        

 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.

Is The Coca Cola Superbowl Commercial Offensive to Americans?

                

            Coca-Cola's Super Bowl ad showed that some Americans still can't take diversity

Its multilingual script alarmed conservatives already losing their battle to preserve an America that never existed 

READ MORE FROM THE GUARDIAN http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/09/coca-cola-super-bowl-ad-america-diversity

Malaysian couple detained for disciplining son in Sweden

Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room - the crash of a corporate giant