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Basketball on Air Craft Carrier - 0 views

www.sportsonearth.com/...40250336 science
shared by Sean Kirkpatrick on 13 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Sean Kirkpatrick on 13 Nov 12
     
    After listening to Zach Lessner talk about his TOK moment- how it is harder to play basketball on an air craft carrier- I did some more research on the game. Other analysts said that there was increased moisture on the court, providing more slippery surfaces to play on. This could have led to injury or just a more sloppy game. Interesting.
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Philosophy and Natural Phenomenon - 0 views

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shared by Sean Kirkpatrick on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Sean Kirkpatrick on 29 Nov 12
     
    In this article, written by a Stanford Professor, the author talks about Natural Phenomenon and how it relates to things we are learning in TOK. This resource further expands our knowledge of the natural and human sciences.
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More conversation on emotion and reason - 0 views

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shared by Sean Kirkpatrick on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Sean Kirkpatrick on 06 Mar 13
     
    When doing research for my TOK final presentation, I came across this article, and I thought i'd share it because I found it useful
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Manti Teo "girlfriend" : Catfish - 0 views

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  • Sean Kirkpatrick on 06 Mar 13
     
    Article summarizing the term "Catfish," or someone you meet online. How can one trust someone behind a computer screen? Do emotion or reason come into play when online dating? TOK moment: Manti Teo, etc.
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Science Is a Pain in the Butt. Embrace It. | Experts' Corner | Big Think - 0 views

bigthink.com/...-a-pain-in-the-butt-embrace-it TOK science
shared by Blair Peterson on 11 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Blair Peterson on 11 Mar 13
     
    Really great metaphor for science.
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Opinion Pages Article on August 6th Briefing - 0 views

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shared by Chris DiMaria on 16 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Chris DiMaria on 16 Dec 12
     
    This is the article I cited in my TOK essay, an opinionated article on the Bush administration's reactions to briefings.
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Buddhist Meditation - 0 views

www.accesstoinsight.org/...bl015.html sense perception illusion
shared by Grace Carey on 14 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Grace Carey on 14 Jan 13
     
    Much of this makes me think of TOK issues, especially the parts discussing all of life being an illusion or hallucination. "Physics, by showing that the realm of phenomena we know through these channels of cognition (sense perception) does not really correspond to the physical world known to science, has confirmed this Buddhist truth. "
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Ted Kaptchuk's Quest to Understand the Placebo Effect - 0 views

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shared by Sean Kirkpatrick on 29 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Sean Kirkpatrick on 29 Apr 13
     
    I am very interested in the Placebo effect and its ties to the TOK course
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Erasing History in the Internet Era - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...keller-erasing-history.html TOK history internet
shared by markfrankel18 on 07 May 13 - Cached
  • Lorraine Martin, a nurse in Greenwich, was arrested in 2010 with her two grown sons when police raided her home and found a small stash of marijuana, scales and plastic bags. The case against her was tossed out when she agreed to take some drug classes, and the official record was automatically purged. It was, the law seemed to assure her, as if it had never happened.
  • Defamation is the publication of information that is both damaging and false. The arrest story was obviously true when it was first published. But Connecticut’s erasure law has already established that truth can be fungible. Martin, her suit says, was “deemed never to have been arrested.” And therefore the news story had metamorphosed into a falsehood.
  • They debate the difference between “historical fact” and “legal fact.” They dispute whether something that was true when it happened can become not just private but actually untrue, so untrue you can swear an oath that it never happened and, in the eyes of the law, you’ll be telling the truth.
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  • Google’s latest transparency report shows a sharp rise in requests from governments and courts to take down potentially damaging material.
  • In Europe, where press freedoms are less sacred and the right to privacy is more ensconced, the idea has taken hold that individuals have a “right to be forgotten,” and those who want their online particulars expunged tend to have the government on their side. In Germany or Spain, Lorraine Martin might have a winning case.
  • The Connecticut case is just one manifestation of an anxious backlash against the invasive power of the Internet, a world of Big Data and ever more powerful search engines, in which it seems almost everything is permanently recorded and accessible to almost anyone — potential employers, landlords, dates, predators
  • The Times’s policy is not to censor history, because it’s history. The paper will update an arrest story if presented with evidence of an acquittal or dismissal, completing the story but not deleting the story.
  • Owen Tripp, a co-founder of Reputation.com, which has made a business out of helping clients manage their digital profile, advocated a “right to be forgotten” in a YouTube video. Tripp said everyone is entitled to a bit of space to grow up, to experiment, to make mistakes.
  • “This is not just a privacy problem,” said Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, and author of “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age.” “If we are continually reminded about people’s mistakes, we are not able to judge them for who they are in the present. We need some way to put a speed-brake on the omnipresence of the past.”
  • would like to see search engine companies — the parties that benefit the most financially from amassing our information — offer the kind of reputation-protecting tools that are now available only to those who can afford paid services like those of Reputation.com. Google, he points out, already takes down five million items a week because of claims that they violate copyrights. Why shouldn’t we expect Google to give users an option — and a simple process — to have news stories about them down-ranked or omitted from future search results? Good question. What’s so sacred about a search algorithm, anyway?
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College Basketball v. NBA Basketball Arena Atmosphere - 0 views

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shared by Sean Kirkpatrick on 05 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Sean Kirkpatrick on 05 Feb 13
     
    I especially liked this article as it talks about the difference between watching college basketball and NBA basketball. It talked about many TOK aspects including the way of knowing, Emotion. THey talked a lot about how knowledge can be gained through emotion in both atmospheres. Very interesting article.
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News at Tipitaka Network - 0 views

www.tipitaka.net/...news.php dogmatism falsification religion ignorance bias faith dual-causation logic Quantum-Physics measurement Reality Heisenberg uncertainty 5-senses perception
shared by Grace Carey on 27 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Grace Carey on 27 Jan 13
     
    Finding some interesting and very much TOK articles while I'm working on my religious investigation about the science behind Buddhist beliefs. I found this one particularly intriguing as it discusses why the theory of reincarnation is scientifically sound and why scientists are often narrow-minded and overly trusted. "I was once told by a Buddhist G.P. that, on his first day at a medical school in Sydney, the famous Professor, head of the Medical School, began his welcoming address by stating "Half of what we are going to teach you in the next few years is wrong. Our problem is that we do not know which half it is!" Those were the words of a real scientist." "Logic is only as reliable as the assumptions on which it is based." "Objective experience is that which is free from all bias. In Buddhism, the three types of bias are desire, ill-will and skeptical doubt. Desire makes one see only what one wants to see, it bends the truth to fit one's preferences." "Reality, according to pure science, does not consist of well ordered matter with precise massed, energies and positions in space, all just waiting to be measured. Reality is the broadest of smudges of all possibilities, only some being more probable than others." "At a recent seminar on Science and Religion, at which I was a speaker, a Catholic in the audience bravely announced that whenever she looks through a telescope at the stars, she feels uncomfortable because her religion is threatened. I commented that whenever a scientist looks the other way round through a telescope, to observe the one who is watching, then they feel uncomfortable because their science is threatened by what is doing the seeing! "
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Largest Prime Discovered | Mathematics | LiveScience - 0 views

www.livescience.com/t-prime-number-discovered.html TOK mathematics
shared by Lindsay Lyon on 06 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • The largest prime number yet has been discovered — and it's 17,425,170 digits long. The new prime number crushes the last one discovered in 2008, which was a paltry 12,978,189 digits long.
  • The number — 2 raised to the 57,885,161 power minus 1 — was discovered by University of Central Missouri mathematician Curtis Cooper as part of a giant network of volunteer computers
  • "It's analogous to climbing Mt. Everest," said George Woltman, the retired, Orlando, Fla.-based computer scientist who created GIMPS. "People enjoy it for the challenge of the discovery of finding something that's never been known before."
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  • the number is the 48th example of a rare class of primes called Mersenne Primes. Mersenne primes take the form of 2 raised to the power of a prime number minus 1. Since they were first described by French monk Marin Mersenne 350 years ago, only 48 of these elusive numbers have been found, including the most recent discovery. [The Most Massive Numbers in the Universe]
  • mathematicians have devised a much cleverer strategy, that dramatically reduces the time to find primes. That method uses a formula to check much fewer numbers.
  • mber is the 48th example of a rare class of primes called Mersenne Primes. Mersenne primes take the form of 2 raised to the power of a prime number minus 1. Since they were first described by French monk Marin Mersenne 350 years ago, only 48 of these elusive numbers have been found
  • the 48th example of a rare class of primes called Mersenne Primes. Mersenne primes take the form of 2 raised to the power of a prime number minus 1
  • Emily Horwitz on 06 Feb 13
     
    An interesting article that reminded me of the discussions we had last year on whether math was invented or discovered. With regard to prime numbers, could we ever stop finding "new" ones? Can we ever find a formula to pinpoint every single prime number without dividing it by other numbers?
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New Perspective on our Home Planet - 0 views

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shared by Chris DiMaria on 21 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Chris DiMaria on 21 Feb 13
     
    I love this video. Not only for the incredible imagery that it provides, but also for the perspective it offers from those that have worked on these missions and those that have seen the Earth like we see the moon. They articulate it so well it goes along perfectly with the topic of perception in TOK
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