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Elisabeth Gabalova

Genetically Modified Organisms: To Eat Or Not To Eat? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR - 1 views

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GMO ToK ethics science

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    Genetically Modified Organisms: To eat or not to eat
Lawrence Hrubes

Pawan Sinha: How brains learn to see | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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TOK perception vision senses neuroscience blindness brain learning

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    "Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain's visual system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains learn to interpret visual data. The work offers insights into neuroscience, engineering and even autism."
Lawrence Hrubes

RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time - YouTube - 1 views

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TOK perception time culture religion technology paradigm

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  • Lawrence Hrubes on 30 Sep 13
     
    "Renowned psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo explains how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being."
Lawrence Hrubes

James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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TOK IQ intelligence abstraction cognition morality politics

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    "It's called the "Flynn effect" -- the fact that each generation scores higher on an IQ test than the generation before it. Are we actually getting smarter, or just thinking differently? In this fast-paced spin through the cognitive history of the 20th century, moral philosopher James Flynn suggests that changes in the way we think have had surprising (and not always positive) consequences. James Flynn challenges our fundamental assumptions about intelligence."
Lawrence Hrubes

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

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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."
markfrankel18

What Elvish, Klingon, and Dothraki Reveal about Real Language & the Essence of Human Co... - 1 views

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TOK language

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  • Language, Darwin believed, was not a conscious invention but a phenomenon “slowly and unconsciously developed by many steps.” But what makes a language a language? In this short animation from TED Ed, linguist John McWhorter, author of the indispensable The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (public library), explores the fascinating world of fantasy constructed languages — known as conlangs — from Game of Thrones’ Dothraki to Avatar’s Na’vi to Star Trek’s Klingon to Lord of the Rings’ Elvish. Though fictional, these conlangs reveal a great deal about the fundamentals of real human communication and help us understand the essential components of a successful language — extensive vocabulary, consistent grammar rules but peppered with exceptions, and just the right amount of room for messiness and evolution.
Lawrence Hrubes

How Social Media Is Changing Organ Donation : The New Yorker - 0 views

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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? "
Lawrence Hrubes

How Music Makes Us Feel Better : The New Yorker - 0 views

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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"
Lawrence Hrubes

Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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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

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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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