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A Guardian story, looking at the return to the Prado of the painting, The Year of Famine, which went from being the museum's most popular piece to an artistic joke.

NEW LOOK MINI-LESSONS!

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A Hannah Fry story, in which she ‘proves’ that a bankrupt British department store was built by ancient aliens, giving us an interesting insight into our brains.

NEW LOOK MINI-LESSONS!

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A Graffiti Street story, looking at the mysterious appearance of a statue on a famous street in London, which may or may not be a Banksy.

NEW LOOK MINI-LESSONS!

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LOOK WHERE YOU’RE GOING | TOK mini-lesson

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A Conversation story, arguing that corporate algorithms are becoming our new moral authorities, and decide whether we are behaving appropriately or not.

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RANKINGS AND DASHBOARDS | TOK mini-lesson

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An FT story*, exploring the essential role of trials in helping to produce reliable knowledge about science and other areas.

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TOUGHENED PINT GLASSES | TOK mini-lesson

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A Live Science story, analysing the motives for the Artemis II moon mission, taking people back to the moon for the first time in 50 years.

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A DW story, investigating the rise of looksmaxxing, focusing on the activities of the influencer Clavicular, known for his ‘bonesmashing’ techniques - and controversial views.

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A Conversation story, exploring whether people in Argentina are forgetting the realities of their military dictatorship, on the 50th anniversary of its start.

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FORGETTING THE DISAPPEARED? | TOK mini-lesson

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An Earth Island story, arguing that we need to “embrace culturally-informed knowledge systems” in order to better protect the environment.

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SCIENCE IS NOT NEUTRAL | TOK mini-lesson

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A Science News story, discussing research that weighs up the pros and cons of using AI Chatbots to diagnose medical symptoms.

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A Forbes story, looking at how AI is shaping the way we wage war, and the ethical implications of this.

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WAR AND ACCOUNTABILITY | TOK mini-lesson

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A Conversation story, looking at how we tend to remember opinions more than facts - and how that can be leveraged to help stop misinformation.

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A TED story, in which etymologist Adam Aleksic argues platforms such as ChatGPT and Spotify are changing the way we interact with reality.

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A Black History Month story, looking at the life of Claudette Colvin, who was the first black person to refuse to give up her seat on a bus, but who was never recognized like Rosa Parks.

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CONSTRUCTING THE NARRATIVE | TOK mini-lesson

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A TED story, in which Harini Bhat discusses the “thrill” of not knowing, and being able to admit that that is the case.

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A Conversation story, analyzing the “marketing genius” of Spotify Unwrapped, the yearly round-up of users’ music habits.

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CONNECTION & INDIVIDUALITY | TOK mini-lesson

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A Conversation story, posing the ethical question, why is it OK to receive a transplanted organ from a pig, but not OK to grow human organs in a pig.

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A Conversation story, which looks at the life of Jane Goodall, and how her disruptive approach led to the production of important new knowledge.

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A Conversation story looking at the ethics of anatomical drawings, that feature in medical textbooks, and which were often created via troubling ethical scenarios.

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DID THEY EVER CONSENT? | TOK mini-lesson

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A Salon story, arguing that doubt is an ‘Act of resistance’ in an age when people have weaponized certainty in politics and other aspects of life.

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An NPR story, looking at news that scientists have created human eggs in the lab, using skin cells - and what the implications are of this.

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A BBC story, reporting on the decision to rename the US Department of Defense the ‘Department of War’, to "project strength and resolve".

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A BBC Future story, looking at how suggestions that eating insects might help us combat climate change have fuelled a conspiracy theory.

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I WILL NOT EAT THE BUGS! | TOK mini-lesson

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A Big Think story, featuring Alex Edmans, who says that the prevalence of misinformation is due to us suffering from confirmation bias.

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A Conversation story, reporting on how AI has now passed the Turing test - and what this means for our relationship with art.

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An AP story, reporting on the campaign by African nations to replace the Mercator map as the standard representation of the world.

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A Wired story, looking at how patients and doctors are increasingly turning to AI-chatbots to make medical diagnoses and recommendations.

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THE RISE OF DR CHATGPT | TOK mini-lesson

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A Guardian story, looking at how Ayahuasca tourism is leading to the increased exploitation of indigenous people in South America.

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FANTASIES FOR OUTSIDERS | TOK mini-lesson

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A Forbes story, about the reaction to a new advert for American Eagle jeans, featuring the actor Sydney Sweeney.

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MOCKERY AND MARKETING | TOK mini-lesson (senior)

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A mini-lesson based on a Guardian investigation, which has discovered that over 50% of mental health videos on TikTok contain misleading or inaccurate information.

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A mini-lesson based on a very short Science News review of a book exploring the way ‘silly science’ can lead to profound insights into the way the natural world works, and be built on in the future.

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INSIGHTFUL SILLY SCIENCE | TOK mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on a 5-minute BBC video, reporting on the erection of a statue to former dictator, Joseph Stalin, in a Moscow metro station, and his rehabilitation in Russian - or Soviet - history.

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THE PUSH FOR PATRIOTISM | TOK mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on a Conversation article, drawing on Carl Sagan’s ‘ECREE’ maxim to explore how much evidence would be required to convincingly claim that extraterrestrial life exists.

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A mini-lesson based on a Big Think interview with Claire Dederer, which discusses the age-old question of art vs. artist, and why the goalposts have moved in the online age.

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AN AESTHETICO- ETHICAL DANCE | TOK mini-lesson

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A mini-lesson based on a Big Think interview with Robert MacFarlane, in which he discusses how language and perception shape our relationship with the natural world.

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THE LANGUAGE OF CONNECTION | TOK mini-lesson

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The mini-lessons help students apply TOK concepts to real-world situations, challenge them to identify their biases and assumptions about knowledge, and provide powerful examples for their essays and exhibitions.

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