Text: “France fines Google, Facebook over cookies.” DW.com. Extract: “France’s National Commission for Information Technology and Freedom (CNIL) on Thursday hit Facebook and Google with €210 million ($237 million) in fines. CNIL has determined that the sites facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com do not allow users to refuse the use of cookies as simply Read more…
The letter from Disney (from 1938) l shows its response to a woman’s inquiry about working in Disney’s creative department. The response is extremely sexist. At that point in time Disney declared that the “boundaries of acceptable investigation” were gender-based.
Text: “The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz.” The Atlantic.com Extract: “The Polish resistance had been hearing horrific first- or second-hand accounts about the conditions inside Auschwitz. These early accounts came primarily from released prisoners, but also from casual observers like railway employees and residents of the nearby village of Oswiecim. Read more…
Text: “Curator Accused of Making NFTs of Works by Anish Kapoor and Others Without Permission.” Artnews.com Extract: “British curator Ben Moore is being accused of NFT theft. According to the Financial Times, Moore is facing claims that he made NFTs of works by various artists, including Anish Kapoor, without the creators’ permission. Back in 2013, Moore worked Read more…
Text: “Health scientist Carrie Bourassa on immediate leave after scrutiny of her claim she’s Indigenous.” CBC news Extract: “Carrie Bourassa, a University of Saskatchewan professor and the scientific director of the Indigenous health arm of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), is on leave from both institutions following a Read more…
Text: “The Depths of Animal Grief” “Elephants’ response to death has been called, “probably the strangest thing about them.” They almost always react to a dead elephant’s remains. Occasionally they react to a human’s. The remains or bones of other species, they ignore. Joyce Poole writes, “It is their silence 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/ 6. If we conclude that there is some knowledge we should not pursue on ethical grounds, how can we determine the boundaries of acceptable investigation Read more…
Text: “Riots erupt in Vancouver after Canucks loss” Extract: “Riot police fired tear gas, pepper spray and flash bombs in downtown Vancouver Wednesday night to try to disperse angry rioters who set cars on fire, looted stores and taunted police officers after the Canucks’ 4-0 Stanley Cup final loss to the Boston Bruins.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/riots-erupt-in-vancouver-after-canucks-loss-1.993707 In the Read more…
Text: “Controversial father of Pakistan nuclear bomb dies at age 85.” The Japan News / Associated Press. Extract: “Abdul Qadeer Khan, a controversial figure known as the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, died Sunday after a lengthy illness, the country’s interior minister said. He was 85. Khan launched Pakistan on Read more…
Text: “Make something up’ threat Lancashire Police officer suspended” Extract: “A police officer who threatened to “make something up” in order to arrest a man has been suspended from duty. A clip of the incident, which happened in Accrington, Lancashire, on Friday, had been widely shared on social media. In Read more…