ToK Essays Nov 2024

John Berger looks at how the act of seeing or being seen affects the formation of art and the social relations that surround it.

An otherworldly experience at the intersection of art and science – staged on a single square inch in a Petri dish

For the first time in decades, humanity is making its way back to the moon. As you might imagine, conspiracy theorists who deny the original moon landing are not taking this well.

Human beings are at the centre of the knowledge universe. This is why in your TOK studies everyone explores the ‘Core Theme’. Figure 3 pictures ‘Me as a knower and thinker’. Anyone who pursues knowledge, whether an expert or not, will at some point have to reflect on the fact that there are various factors, both internal and external, which either promote or constrain their endeavours.

Research into a vase in Colchester reportedly provides the "only evidence" of such fights staged in Britain.

The movement of wakes left by large boats can look deceptive, and to the untrained eye could easily be mistaken for a monster in Loch Ness

Mathematicians using the computer program Lean have verified the accuracy of a difficult theorem at the cutting edge of research mathematics.