ToK Essays Nov 2024

Philosopher Nick Bostrom's "singleton hypothesis" predicts the ​future of human societies. It says that intelligent life on Earth will eventually form a "singleton," which could be a single government or an artificial intelligence that runs everything. Whether the singleton will be positive or negative depends on numerous factors.

For decades, the idea of a language instinct has dominated linguistics. It is simple, powerful and completely wrong

Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

In the 1980s, as China was modernizing, they ran into a problem. There was no way to fit their 70,000 plus character language on a QWERTY keyboard. Today, the story of how they did it.

One way to differentiate between ‘change’ and ‘progress’ is to think of whether or not a change in knowledge is goal orientated. For example, when Fleming discovered penicillin, scientists would eventually talk of Fleming’s breakthrough as real ‘medica

Scientists are currently pushing on an ethical boundary. Will out of body gestation ever replace the experience of human birth?