Reading Material
Posted in Ethics, Sense Perception on Mar 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Religious Belief and End-of-Life-Treatment Choices: New Study Findings
Have the Eyes Had It?: How reliable are eye-witness reports?
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Language and Perception: “The Egg and the Sperm”
Posted in Human Sciences, Language, Natural Sciences, Sense Perception on Mar 12th, 2009 3 Comments »
We will be discussing the article “The Egg and the Sperm” tomorrow, but here are a few pre-class reflection questions:
1) What are the stereotypical male/female traits? Identify and write them down.
2) Do the textbooks examined in the study reflect any of these stereotypical traits?
3) Does your biology textbook (whether from IB Biology or from lower [...]
Blindsight: Blind, Yet Seeing
Posted in Emotion, Science, Sense Perception on Dec 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Fascinating scientific research on blindsight, “the native ability to sense things using the brain’s primitive, subcortical — and entirely subconscious — visual system” – read about it here.
Primal, Acute and Easily Duped: Our Sense of Touch
Posted in Natural Sciences, Sense Perception on Dec 9th, 2008 No Comments »
This article on the sense of touch (which we largely neglected in our discussion) is fascinating and rather insightful.
Three Interesting Articles
Posted in Emotion, Natural Sciences, Sense Perception on Nov 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
“The Unappreciated, Holding Our Lives in Balance (“Sensory Heroes”)”: Related to Sense Perception.
“What? Me Biased?”: Links to a test that allows you to determine your unconscious bias.
“Fly Me to Deity”: An article on science and religion, reflection on the first space (unmanned) space mission to the moon by a nation that worships the satellite as [...]
Mathematical Gut Instinct, Feeling Music, and the Scientific Method (Brain Food)
Posted in Math, Natural Sciences, Religion, Sense Perception, Technology on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Every day I peruse newspapers and magazines online, just to keep myself properly informed about happenings in the world. Frequently I encounter articles for ToK – and quite often these relate to the sciences. There are many, many absolutely intriguing articles on scientific progress out there and I would highly recommend you start reading some [...]
