ToK Essays Nov 2024

COVID-19 and the history of the panspermia hypothesis.

The science supports that face coverings are saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough?

On many critical coronavirus questions, like when schools should reopen, and how worried parents should be about Kawasaki disease, we don’t have enough data to have good answers. And we’re going to have to make decisions anyway.

Hayley Stevens explains how the recent ghost captured on a Birmingham CCTV camera may have a far more mundane explanation.

For the warriors and wanderers who became the Aztec people, truth was not singular and history was braided from many voices

Is there an omnipotent all-knowing entity, otherwise known as "God", ruling our daily affairs and caring enough to judge our behaviors on an individual basis? Or is our life ruled by an invisible supercomputer that pre-ordains most of our actions, ensuring an impenetrable veil between us an

Can your zip code predict when you will die? Will testosterone supplements boost your libido? Should you space out childhood vaccines? Does talcum powder cause cancer? Why do some doctors recommend e-cigarettes while other doctors recommend you stay away from them? Health information―and misinf

Star calls for live music to challenge social distancing rules, but faces fan backlash

In every generation, some religious believers imagine their time to be the end time. Why is this so? What makes the end time so compelling, even intoxicating? What characterizes the end time? How about in our generation? What, in a religious nutshell, is the end time? And what can we learn about religion, and religious organizations, from end times?