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BBC News - Why does the human brain create false memories? - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...science-environment-24286258

TOK memory

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 29 Sep 13
     
    "Neuroscientists say that many of our daily memories are falsely reconstructed because our view of the world is constantly changing."
Lawrence Hrubes

Letter from Nairobi: The Death of Kofi Awoonor : The New Yorker - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...he-murder-of-kofi-awoonor.html

TOK arts poetry Africa Nairobi terrorism attack

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 28 Sep 13
     
    "On Saturday, September 21st, the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor was shot dead at Nairobi's Westgate mall by terrorists."
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How Social Media Is Changing Organ Donation : The New Yorker - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...ere-to-donate-your-kidney.html

TOK ethics organ donation medicine health

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 27 Sep 13
     
    "How do we keep organ distribution from morphing into a popularity contest, where those with the most sympathetic stories win, or are allowed to change the rules? "
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How Music Makes Us Feel Better : The New Yorker - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...usic-makes-us-feel-better.html

TOK arts music medicine health science psychology

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 27 Sep 13
     
    " In 2006, researchers discovered that even something as complex as open-heart surgery could be improved with a musical intervention: patients who listened to music during and after heart surgery not only felt less anxious but required, on average, two hundred fewer minutes of intubation"
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Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection | Video on TED.com - 0 views

www.ted.com/...s_the_art_of_misdirection.html

TOK perception attention ApolloRobbins pickpocket TEDTalk

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 26 Sep 13
     
    "Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our perception make it possible to swipe a wallet and leave it on its owner's shoulder while they remain clueless."
Lawrence Hrubes

Video of Apollo Robbins Pickpocketing : The New Yorker - 1 views

www.newyorker.com/...-the-art-of-pickpocketing.html

TOK perception senses attention pickpocket NewYorker ApolloRobbins

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 26 Sep 13
     
    "In the January 7th issue of the magazine, Adam Green profiles the pickpocket Apollo Robbins. Green writes: "Robbins, who is thirty-eight and lives in Las Vegas, is a peculiar variety-arts hybrid, known in the trade as a theatrical pickpocket. Among his peers, he is widely considered the best in the world at what he does, which is taking things from people's jackets, pants, purses, wrists, fingers, and necks, then returning them in amusing and mind-boggling ways.""
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Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing | Video on TED.com - 0 views

www.ted.com/...different_ways_of_knowing.html

TOK synesthesia perception senses maths numeracy language colour

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 26 Sep 13
     
    "Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia -- meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world."
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BBC - Culture - Art of Noise: Photographer captures colour explosions - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...0920-what-does-music-look-like

TOK arts photogrpahy

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 25 Sep 13
     
    "Sonic is the latest project by German photographer Martin Klimas. Paint is put on top of a speaker and then music is played at full volume - creating explosions of colour."
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BBC - Culture - Margaret Atwood's dystopian view of the future - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...906-atwood-dystopian-visionary

TOK literature memory storytelling narrative arts

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 25 Sep 13
     
    (video segment 3:40) "Themes in her work include dealing with the past, memory and how we tell stories about ourselves. She speaks with Talking Books' Razia Iqbal about her novels, science fiction, and the importance of storytelling"
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BBC - Capital - Trusting your gut: Smart management or a fool's errand? - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...0923-should-you-trust-your-gut

TOK intuition hunch business management photography arts

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 24 Sep 13
     
    ""A lot of people think intuition is general purpose, but intuition is actually domain specific," said Massimo Pigliucci, a philosophy professor at City University of New York, and author of Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life. "Intuition is the result of your subconscious brain picking up on clues and hints and calculating the situation for you, and that's based solely on experience.""
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Adam Gopnik: What Galileo Saw : The New Yorker - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...130211crat_atlarge_gopnik

TOK science

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 24 Sep 13
     
    "Kepler encouraged Galileo to announce publicly his agreement with the sun-centered cosmology of the Polish astronomer monk Copernik, better known to history by the far less euphonious, Latinized name of Copernicus. His system, which greatly eased astronomical calculation, had been published in 1543, to little ideological agitation. It was only half a century later, as the consequences of pushing the earth out into plebeian orbit dawned on the priests, that it became too hot to handle, or even touch."
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Chef Heston Blumenthal's Philosophy: The Fat Duck Restaurant - 1 views

www.thefatduck.co.uk/...Our-Philosophy

TOK sensory perception taste food

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 23 Sep 13
     
    "Of course I want to create food that is delicious, but this depends on so much more than simply what's going on in the mouth-context, history, nostalgia, emotion, memory and the interplay of sight, smell, sound and taste all play an important part in our appreciation and enjoyment of food"
Lawrence Hrubes

BBC News - A Point of View: Why people give in to temptation when no-one's watching - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...magazine-24165872

TOK ethics evil Milgram temptation

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 23 Sep 13
     
    "After World War II showed our species just how many hells on earth it could create, a whole generation of researchers devoted themselves to what I find a much more vital question. "Why do apparently good and normal people do abnormal and appalling things ?""
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Long Story Long: A Cartoon Controversy : The New Yorker - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...long-story-long.html

TOK arts ethics humour gender stereotype sexism

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 22 Sep 13
     
    "I was very pleased with the results of the cliché caption contest, but, while many people shared my opinion that the finalists were funny, some women took umbrage at this cartoon, considering it offensive to women"
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BBC News - She Who Tells a Story: Female lens on Iran and the Arab world - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...magazine-24119403

TOK gender women arts photography MiddleEast Iran stereotypes

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 19 Sep 13
     
    "In the Middle East, a number of pioneering female photographers have risen to prominence, using art to defy stereotypes and explore questions of identity in the changing region."
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Grand Theft Auto V's Torture Scene: How Evil Should a Video Game Allow You to Be? ... - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...ideo-game-allow-you-to-be.html

TOK ethics games video arts violence

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Sep 13
     
    "A 2011 Supreme Court ruling recognized that video games, like other forms of art and entertainment, are protected by the First Amendment as a form of speech. "For better or worse," Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the decision, "our society has long regarded many depictions of killing and maiming as suitable features of popular entertainment.""
Lawrence Hrubes

BBC News - Lost Spanish lotto ticket handed in to clear conscience - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-europe-24143767

TOK ethics honesty empathy lottery

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Sep 13
     
    "A man who found a multi million-euro winning lottery ticket in La Coruna, Spain said he would not have been able to sleep if he had claimed the prize."
Lawrence Hrubes

Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science | Video on TED.com - 0 views

www.ted.com/...acre_battling_bad_science.html

TOK TEDTalk TED.com science badscience Ben Goldacre doctor pharmaceutical

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Sep 13
     
    "Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industry. Ben Goldacre unpicks dodgy scientific claims made by scaremongering journalists, dubious government reports, pharmaceutical corporations, PR companies and quacks."
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Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk | Video on TED.com - 0 views

www.ted.com/...rockett_beware_neuro_bunk.html

TOK science neuro neurology neuroscience TEDTalk Molly Crockett badscience

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 18 Sep 13
     
    "Brains are ubiquitous in modern marketing: Headlines proclaim cheese sandwiches help with decision-making, while a "neuro" drink claims to reduce stress. There's just one problem, says neuroscientist Molly Crockett: The benefits of these "neuro-enhancements" are not proven scientifically. In this to-the-point talk, Crockett explains the limits of interpreting neuroscientific data, and why we should all be aware of them."
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