When you start teaching TOK, there is no "way of knowing" how to stop! My musings, and collaborative sharings on Knowledge.
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"Ever since its inception from multiple cultural roots, science has unified diverse peoples through an appreciation of its benefits and its inclusive perspective on the natural world free of cultural constraints." #science #TOK
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#Science is not unnatural, but it is often counterintuitive. It requires us to correct the very cognitive instincts that helped our ancestors survive. skeptic.com/article/sciencin… #tok #bias
Humans prefer to walk anticlockwise, scientists find – but reason is unclear #TOK #knowledge theguardian.com/science/2026…
"Why do we continue to see so much decorative neuroscience? A study published in 2008 found that laypeople rate explanations that contain irrelevant neuroscience as better than those that lack neuroscience." #tok #pseudoscience #language
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"America’s Alien Problem: Why We Ignore Common Sense in Favor of Belief" #tok #belief #knowledge skeptic.com/article/americas…
"Your brain evolved to cut corners, and it's remarkably good at it. A psychologist's take on cognitive bias: why it exists and how awareness of it might be the most underrated mental health tool." #tok #bias #cognition bit.ly/40sPWV7
“At a time when racism and sexism are out of favor,” writes Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel, “credentialism is the last acceptable prejudice.” #bias #university #numbers #tok
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"When a #belief supports your identity or social standing, the mind unconsciously applies stricter standards to disconfirming evidence and looser standards to supporting #evidence." #TOK #bias
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"...the “95 percent” figure should be treated for what it is: not #reliable. It is viral, vibey, methodologically weak and it buries its caveats. The report served some purpose, but what that purpose is, I’m not clear." #knowledge #tok bit.ly/4bpdfFV
"Most people get failure wrong—they either ignore it or let it define them. Here's how to fail productively, extract the lessons, and actually grow from your mistakes." #ibdp #failwell #learning bit.ly/3Zh5WZL
“...but she selected, adjusted and used one with notable dexterity and flexibility. Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist.” #knowledge @assumptions #tok bit.ly/3LHYKlW
"The World Happiness Report Is a Sham
A case study in elite misinformation." all things are numbers? #TOK #essay bit.ly/49kB2Fi
"As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost." #tok #idk #knowledge #ai bit.ly/4ooyomw
"Borderline ambiguity: How Google Maps removes disputed Western Sahara border for Morocco users" #reliability #TOK #maps #models #perspective bit.ly/43yxYCx
"Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo. Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say..." #tok #ib #fallacy bit.ly/4op8cc9
"Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too" #tok #iks #ib bit.ly/4or2TbQ
"A #paradigm change’: black hole spotted that may have been created moments after big bang" #tok @naturalscience bit.ly/41CeMmd
"Memory is more than data stored somewhere—it’s what makes us who we are. It dictates our perspective on the world, our feelings, actions, and reasoning." #tok #IB bit.ly/4mPHt7v
"Sometimes this mythical-mathematical reality fractures entirely: a Google map conveys me into a lake, while maintaining that this is the fastest route home." #tok #math #map #IBDP bit.ly/3Hljuhg
Scientists Have Discovered A New Way To Count (And It's Actually Really Important) #TOK #knowledge #technology bit.ly/3IRK02c