Text: “Masked artist makes sticky issue out of radiation in Japan” Extract: “Known as 281 Antinuke, Japan’s answer to Banksy has covered Tokyo streets in images depicting politicians as vampires and children being shielded from radioactive rain to highlight the consequences of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant after Read more
Text: “NASA’s New Shape-Shifting Radiator Inspired by Origami.” Extract: “Vivek Dwivedi, a technologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has teamed with a couple of researchers at Brigham Young University in Utah to advance an unconventional radiator that would fold and unfold, much like the V-groove paper Read more
Text: “What Happens if a Child Is Never Exposed to Language?” Excerpt from the text: “Children learn the language(s) that they hear and see around them at a young age, but what happens if a child just never has any linguistic input, spoken or signed? Although a scientific study around Read more
Text: “Old growth logging protesters gather outside B.C. premier’s office as legislature resumes“ Extract from the text: “Protesters opposed to old-growth logging gathered outside Premier John Horgan’s office and other entrances to British Columbia’s legislature Monday as politicians returned to Victoria for a six-week fall session. A spokesman for the Read more
In the last few years there has been an explosion in the number of people investing in the stock market. This dramatic increase is partly due to the lower costs of trading, market swings during COVID, and to some extent the attention paid to “meme stocks” such as Gamestop. Ben Read more
Text: “Djibouti asks UN help to end border dispute with Eritrea” Excerpt: “UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Djibouti is asking Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to help peacefully resolve a border dispute with Eritrea following the recent end to that nation’s 20-year border dispute with Ethiopia.” https://apnews.com/article/cd6cf3024ba24afe9baa58852397d5ab Essays on May 2022 TOK essay Read more
Text: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/01/dining/nacho-graphic.html The NYT article explains how Doritos (and other similar foods) are made more appealing through the use of food science techniques. With May 2022 TOK essay prescribed title #3 you need to compare and contrast knowledge in the natural sciences and another AOK. Look at the use of Read more
Text: “Mathematical beauty activates same brain region as great art or music” https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2014/feb/mathematical-beauty-activates-same-brain-region-great-art-or-music May 2022 TOK essay prescribed title #2 is focused on research on how the same part of the brain seems to be responsible for processing both mathematical and artistic beauty. There are of course significant differences between Read more