Text: “Can a dangerous microbe offer a new way to silence pain?” Science Daily. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/success-fail-why-outliers-people-communities-nudges Extract: “A new study shows that a toxin from the microbe that causes anthrax can silence multiple types of pain in mice. Researchers found the toxin targets pain-sensing cells to alter signaling and block pain. Read more…
Text: “How meditation can help you make fewer mistakes.” Science Daily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191111124637.htm Extract: “The research, published in Brain Sciences, tested how open monitoring meditation — or, meditation that focuses awareness on feelings, thoughts or sensations as they unfold in one’s mind and body — altered brain activity in a way Read more…
Article: “Mitsubishi Electric used special program to spin fake data.” Asahi.com Excerpt: “Mitsubishi Electric Corp. fashioned a computer program to churn out fictitious data used in place of actual tests on air conditioning units it supplied to railway companies apparently for more than three decades.” http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14385139 The article shows that Read more…
Text: “Champions.” https://www.australianpoetryslam.com/ Poetry slams are unique artistic events where two or more poet “battle” in a competitive environment. Sometimes the battle is more for fun and in other cases the participants are competing for awards, prizes, and recognition such as this example: https://www.australianpoetryslam.com/champions What value does knowledge gained from poetry Read more…
Text: “UK school ceiling collapses after a decade of austerity cuts and lifting of safety regulations.” World Socialist Web Site. Extract: “Last week, 12 children and one adult were taken to hospital after a school ceiling collapsed at a primary school in London. The London Ambulance service treated a further Read more…
Text: “Moral judgments about an activity’s COVID-19 risk can lead people astray.” Sciencenews.org Extract: “When it comes to catching COVID-19, outdoor activities, in general, are safer than indoor activities (SN: 8/15/20). But if you chose the beach or baseball as riskier, you are not alone. Two new studies show that people consider activities Read more…
Text: “COVID-19 testing in schools works. So why aren’t more doing it?” Extract: “Asymptomatic screening dramatically increases case detection among students and staff in the K through 12 setting,” says M. Jana Broadhurst, a microbiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center who led the team that designed and implemented Read more…
Some developments of knowledge in the natural sciences rely on observation that is supposed to be neutral and impartial. To what extent does this approach mean that there is justification for viewing knowledge in the natural science more highly than knowledge in another AOK? Consider the image of the tardigrade Read more…
See the main page for the May 2022 TOK essay basic knowledge questions https://toktips.com/may-2022-tok-essay-prescribed-titles-sample-knowledge-questions/. Also, have a look at the TOK essay process here: https://toktips.com/the-tok-essay-process/ 3. Is there solid justification for regarding knowledge in the natural sciences more highly than knowledge in another area of knowledge? Discuss with reference to Read more…
Text: “These Century-Old Stone “Tsunami Stones” Dot Japan’s Coastline.” Extract: “At the edge of Aneyoshi, a small village on Japan’s northeastern coast, a 10-foot-tall stone tablet stands, carved with a dire warning to locals. “High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants,” the rock slab says. “Remember the Read more…