Below is an interesting comparison of the roles women play in American television. On the left are roles acted in front of a camera and on the right are roles played in production.
Below is a graphic showing parent companies of common products. The title of this graphic is "The Illusion of Choice"
Sunglasses for a cyclops and other improbable devices.
Link to a New Yorker article on Epistemology and humor.
Below is a video of John Cleese speaking gibberish. For full effect, turn on the subtitles. This is what language sounds life if you have no context into which the individual words fit.
Below, John Cleese explains that if you are really good at something, the knowledge necessary to understand how good you are at it is exactly equal to the knowledge necessary to be good at it. He also explains stupidity.
Upcoming topics in Bioethics
Below is a graphic to demonstrate differences in color perception by gender.
Seven best case scenarios for the future of humanity.
How to measure the power of alien civilizations with the Kardashev Scale.
Two articles regarding the hazards of strictly applying logic |
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Here are five psychology experiments that may well ruin your day.
Why are we emotionally moved by music?
How the human brain sees a 160 km/h fastball.
Here is a file with good words to use in academic papers.
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Defining what being human means.
Untranslatable emotions chart. Here are some more untranslatable concepts.
Twelve cognitive biases that prevent us from being rational.
The best optical illusions of 2012.
Philosophical concepts expressed in minimalist posters.
This isn't really ToK material, but it is terribly funny: a man sneezes his head off.
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Why makes us see faces on mars, or Jesus in a tree trunk? Here is an interesting article on how and why we impose meaning on ambiguous images.
Here is an article about the possibility of artificial intelligence.
Check out this link to an article about the limits of human perception.
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