ToK Essays Nov 2024

Whether you’re a teacher, researcher or educator, our Mathematical Salad selection has something for you, in six delicious categories.

What does the evidence tell us about how to engage with people we disagree with? Mark Horne and artist Matt Kemp find out.

Frontex maps are the primary source of media maps about (illegal, irregular) migration into Europe. However, these use aggressive symbolism (such as red arrows) and can confirm bias against migrants. Other mapping options are available, but perhaps the best solution to prevent bias confirmation is to use other types of information and graphics.

Agenda 21, as it's currently presented in social media on accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, also attacks Universal Basic Income and purports people will be segregated into human settlement zones (a favorite of dystopian teenage fiction).And there'd be no fossil fuels, a fact tha

What anti-maskers are thinking during the Covid-19 pandemic — and why it matters to listen.

For too long the tired tropes of the male gaze in film and literature have focused on girls' sexual precociousness. Girlhood culture deserves to be represented more authentically.

From climate to COVID, naivety about how science is hijacked promotes more of the same.

The range of public monuments removed or vandalized has expanded to historic figures criticized as racist or oppressive, from Christopher Columbus to George Washington

Set Theory and the Axiom of Choice - Proof by Induction - Proof by Contradiction - Gödel and Unprovable Theorem | An interactive textbook

I’ve spent many years referencing Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases whenever I have a hunch that a certain type of thinking is an official bias but I can’t recall the name or details. It’s been an…

Claire Klingenberg looks back over the history of skepticism around the world, tracing its roots from the oldest skeptical group to the first skeptical celebrity.

Western religions have a specific image of the divine. For example, God is not only a person but also seems to have gender—and it is always masculine. Some are now challenging this traditional notion of God as male. What insights can be learned from feminine theology?