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Questions of colour 2
As suggested in the companion page Questions of colour 1 , the colour of human skin causes a ludicrous amount of difficulty - but this is not restricted to white-on-black prejudice, since there are also...
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Race relations
The social organisation of race ... Is it the case that the concept of race involves 'social organisation'? The term 'organisation' suggests deliberate, conscious planning - but surely 'races' simply...
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Patents & inventions
The patent procedure organises and controls the process of human invention. This enshrines the idea of 'intellectual property' - that if you have thought up a new idea, or written a book or a song, you...
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Ig Nobel prizes
The Ig Nobel prize ceremonies have now been running since 1991, and are in their 34th year. The idea behind them is stated succinctly in their website - The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements so surprising...
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Sci & Tech, evaluated
Introducing Science & technology ... for sure, all of our IB Diploma student will have met these words - but it must be worth reviewing what they think the words mean. And 'reviewing' must mean applying...
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Sci & tech & econ
But what exactly do we mean by 'science and technology', and where did these two vastly influential fields of human thought come from? The eminent - and somewhat dissident - Cambridge economist Ha-Joon...
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Sci & tech, surveyed
Exploring the field of ingenuity ... recycled from the Topic of the old Subject Guide, this page provides a useful tour of areas of interest, links to relevant research sources, and some 'springboard...
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Impact of computers
The consequences of ingenuity ... one can admire the cleverness of some new idea or technique, but it may be even smarter to be able to extrapolate the consequences of that new idea: to work out accurately...
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SuperChatbot 1
Chatbots are programmes of artificial intelligence which produce recognisable and comprehensible human language. The latest, state of the art, chatbot is called ChatGPT. The Wikipedia article on this...
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SuperChatbot 2
As pointed out in the page SuperChatbot 1 , the latest, state of the art, chatbot is called ChatGPT. The Wikipedia article on this device is well worth reading, and here is what it has to say as a general...