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Doing good is good for you: Ethics and the Human Sciences, TOK and CAS

December 21, 2014
(re-post from December 16, 2013 blog. It’s so appropriate for this time of year!) Is there really anything newsworthy about the value of doing good to others?  So much has been said over so many centuries that surely current psychological research cannot add...

Doing good is good for you: Ethics and the Human Sciences, TOK and CAS

December 16, 2013
Is there really anything newsworthy about the value of doing good to others?  So much has been said over so many centuries that surely current psychological research cannot add tremendously to our understanding!  And surely doing good falls within the scope of ethics...

Being Human

May 11, 2016
This week I did something which I have rarely done in my many years of teaching; I asked students to spend a whole lesson watching a video. Each student was given a laptop and they were asked to put on their earphones (they always seem to have the latter available at...

Liberal Arts & Sciences – is this the degree for you?

February 17, 2016
What is a Liberal Arts & Sciences degree? Liberal Arts and Sciences is not a new idea and in fact began in Ancient Greece aimed at facilitating high quality, academic studies to develop critical and analytical thinkers in a broad range of disciplines. Typically...

The Mathematical Sciences in the 21st century

December 31, 2013
In the last day of 2013 it seems appropriate to browse two books published by the National Academies Press – both of them represent reports of an interesting project The Mathematical Sciences in 2025. They can be read online freely (and after a registration a...