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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

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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

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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

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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

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  • It may be no accident that so many of the great scientists really have followed Galileo, in ducking and avoiding the consequences of what they discovered. In the roster of genius, evasion of worldly responsibility seems practically a fixed theme. Newton escaped the world through nuttiness, Darwin through elaborate evasive courtesies and by farming out the politics to Huxley. Heisenberg’s uncertainty was political—he did nuclear-fission research for Hitler—as well as quantum-mechanical. Science demands heroic minds, but not heroic morals. It’s one of the things that make it move. ♦
  • 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"
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Elizabeth Loftus: The fiction of memory | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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  • markfrankel18 on 23 Sep 13
     
    "Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either remember things that didn't happen or remember them differently from the way they really were. It's more common than you might think, and Loftus shares some startling stories and statistics, and raises some important ethical questions we should all remember to consider. Memory-manipulation expert Elizabeth Loftus explains how our memories might not be what they seem -- and how implanted memories can have real-life repercussions."
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BBC News - A Point of View: Why people give in to temptation when no-one's watching - 0 views

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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

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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

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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.""
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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."
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List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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