Larry DePrimo, NYPD Cop, Buys Homeless Man Boots

It is important to note that his act of kindness was not staged for the camera, the photograph was taken by a tourist from Arizona on a trip to New York. Each one of us should try to perform acts of kindness whenever we can. Wordsworth called these 'little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love'.

Technology, Human Sciences, Crime, Ethics - hackers and passowords.

How safe is your online data? Read this and see how even an expert was hacked. A very honest and frightening article by someone determined to expose a huge problem which is perhaps under reported as most of us hope it will never happen to us, the writer has shown great moral courage in sharing his experience here.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/

 
This summer, hackers destroyed my entire digital life in the span of an hour,” says Wired senior writer Mat Honan.
Photo: Ethan Hill
 Wired (stylized as WIRED) is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_%28magazine%29

This is posted for educational purposes and as a possible topic for Theory of Knowledge students in essays or oral presentations. Source of article on link above. No copyright infringement intended. Students and readers are encouraged to click on the link to the original article which I found on the BBC website, so I assume that it is in the public domain.

Gender TOK Presentation Part 1 - Biology (Natural Sciences) and Cultural Constructs (Human Sciences)

                                          What role does biology and human society (culture) play in forming our knowledge claims for gender? Does our education and environment also play a role in how we define our gender identity?
NOTE: while this is very interesting, perhaps the students should have highlighted their TOK questions to emphasise the KNOWLEDGE ISSUES in the presentation.  Students are reminded to use TOK terms like AOK and WOK and the other terms we have discussed in class, claims, counterclaims, bias etc

      PART 3                                             

PART 4

PART 5

Nonetheless, this is interesting but it could have been much better if the TOK had been more explicit. I also think it's a good idea to link your presentation or essay to the broader academic discourse by at least referencing a few scholars in your chosen area of knowledge.    

 Feminist authors are prominent in this discourse for example, though we are primarily interested in the views of students themselves.

Stephen Fry - The language in Nazi Germany - Language as a Way of Knowing - labeling and dehumanising 'the other' - leading to murder

TOK presentation - To What Extent is the Language of Persuasion Ethical?

What are Knowledge Issues in TOK?

What is Historiography?