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Can we create new senses for humans? David Eagleman | TE, BQ1

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Can we create new senses for humans? David Eagleman | TE, BQ1

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As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” says neuroscientist David Eagleman, “is constrained by our biology.” He wants to change that. His research into our brain processes has led him to create new interfaces -- such as a sensory vest -- to take in previously unseen information about the world around us.

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What the people of the Amazon know that you don't, Mark Plotkin | IS, BQ4

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What the people of the Amazon know that you don't, Mark Plotkin | IS, BQ4

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What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t

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“The greatest and most endangered species in the Amazon rainforest is not the jaguar or the harpy eagle,” says Mark Plotkin, “It’s the isolated and uncontacted tribes.” In an energetic and sobering talk, the ethnobotanist brings us into the world of the forest’s indigenous tribes and the incredible medicinal plants that their shamans use to heal. He outlines the challenges and perils that are endangering them — and their wisdom — and urges us to protect this irreplaceable repository of knowledge.

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How to truly listen, Evelyn Glennie | K&K, BQ3

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How to truly listen, Evelyn Glennie | K&K, BQ3

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In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.

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Taking imagination seriously, Janet Echelman | AR, BQ5

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Taking imagination seriously, Janet Echelman | AR, BQ5

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Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously

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Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.

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★ The pursuit of ignorance, Stuart Firestein | NS, BQ5

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★ The pursuit of ignorance, Stuart Firestein | NS, BQ5

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What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more like “farting around ... in the dark.” In this witty talk, Firestein gets to the heart of science as it is really practiced and suggests that we should value what we don’t know -- or “high-quality ignorance” -- just as much as what we know.

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Battling bad science, Ben Goldacre | NS, BQ3

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Battling bad science, Ben Goldacre | NS, BQ3

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★ Using art to turn the world inside out, JR | AR, BQ1 

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★ Using art to turn the world inside out, JR | AR, BQ1 

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Use art to turn the world inside out | JR

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How societies can grow old better, Jared Diamond | IS, BQ2

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How societies can grow old better, Jared Diamond | IS, BQ2

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Jared Diamond: How societies can grow old better

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There's an irony behind the latest efforts to extend human life: It's no picnic to be an old person in a youth-oriented society. Older people can become isolated, lacking meaningful work and low on funds. In this intriguing talk, Jared Diamond looks at how many different societies treat their elders -- some better, some worse -- and suggests we all take advantage of experience.

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★ The doubt essential to faith, Lesley Hazleton | RE, BQ1

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★ The doubt essential to faith, Lesley Hazleton | RE, BQ1

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Lesley Hazleton: The doubt essential to faith

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TED is a brilliant resource for anyone delivering the TOK course, introducing students to a range of life-changing ideas, and helping them to understand the different aspects of the course.

Students can not only use the talks to understand the TOK course - and the wider DP - in more depth and detail, but also draw on their discussions to construct and support their essay and exhibition arguments.

Use the resource as a way of augmenting and enriching your BQ or Classic course, and share it with all the teachers in your school to integrate TOK with the rest of the DP, and turn your learning institution into a hub of authentic critical thinking.

The unpacking documents offer an introduction to each speaker, questions that link their talk to the TOK course, and suggested answers. We've also indicated ideas for further research.

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The psychology of your future self, Dan Gilbert | K&K, BQ5

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The psychology of your future self, Dan Gilbert | K&K, BQ5

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“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.” Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the “end of history illusion,” where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we’ll be for the rest of time. Hint: that’s not the case.

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★ Do we see reality as it actually is? Donald Hoffman | K&K, BQ1

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★ Do we see reality as it actually is? Donald Hoffman | K&K, BQ1

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Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.

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★ The fiction of memory, Elizabeth Loftus | K&K, BQ1

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★ The fiction of memory, Elizabeth Loftus | K&K, BQ1

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Elizabeth Loftus: How reliable is your memory?

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Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either remember things that didn't happen or remember them differently from the way they really were. It's more common than you might think, and Loftus shares some startling stories and statistics -- and raises some important ethical questions.

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Is there a real you? Julian Baggini | K&K, BQ1

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Is there a real you? Julian Baggini | K&K, BQ1

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