Posted in Language, Politics on Jan 31st, 2009 No Comments »
We briefly discussed the phrase “Our nation is at war” from Obama’s inaugural speech, which seemed to proceed to “against terror”, but actually ended in “against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred”.
The article below discusses the catchphrase “war against terror”/”war on terror” – when it arose, what it came to mean and how the [...]
Posted in Ethics, Natural Sciences on Jan 31st, 2009 1 Comment »
A story that has had the world abuzz for the past few days is that of a 33-year old American woman giving birth to octuplets (yes, octuplets!). From the scientific point of view this is rather unique. At the moment all eight babies are alive and apparently doing well, and may go on to become [...]
Posted in Language, Politics on Jan 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Some of you are struggling to come up with presentation topics, yet issues worthy of ToK happen every day. One recent example is Barack Obama’s swearing-in last week, which probably raised multiple issues we could talk about. However, since we are currently studying language, I thought we should focus on linguistic KI’s.
We could commence with [...]
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Posted in Language, Politics on Jan 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Single Words, Different Perspectives: The “War of Language”. Check out the audio & photos on the side as well – the war’s “many angles”.
Posted in Ethics, Natural Sciences on Jan 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Some articles I read over the vacations that I wanted to share:
Creature Comforts – Service Animals
Motherhood at 70
Leave this Child Behind: Sports, Segregation and Environmental Eugencis
