The image of the shroud pictured above is a poster from 1898. By then the images on the shroud were faint.
(by Eileen Dombrowski, from OSC TOK blog) This topic of the Shroud of Turin just keeps getting better and better for TOK. In my last post, I outlined TOK lessons based on it. But now – even better materials for launching a class! A podcast interview with historian Charles Freeman (25 minutes), linked from the website of History Today, readily sets up a leaner lesson on the methods of research of an historian. The interviewer applauds Freeman’s research as “historical detective work” on an “unsolved mystery” and invites him to explain his methods of investigation. Continue reading
Can we write more directly and more effectively to each other by chucking out all those words and using emoticons or emoji instead? Three social networks are currently offering images to bypass text altogether. Could this be, at last, a universal language? 
Activating TOK 