Additional resources: areas of knowledge
This page provides additional materials that could potentially be used to justify and analyze knowledge questions and knowledge claims when brainstorming and writing the TOK essay. While resources may be listed under a specific AOK, you can often connect them to other ways and areas. Be sure to properly cite any resources used in your essay.
ethics
Article - Genome Editing Poses Ethical Problems That We Cannot Ignore (IFL Science)
Article - Good People Do Bad Things in the Afternoon (Psychology Today)
Podcast - Note to Self
Article - Good People Do Bad Things in the Afternoon (Psychology Today)
Podcast - Note to Self
the arts
history
Podcast - Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell
Podcast - The Podcast History of the World
Podcast - Stuff You Didn't Learn in History Class
Podcast - The Podcast History of the World
Podcast - Stuff You Didn't Learn in History Class
human sciences
Book - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Book - SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Podcast - Freakonomics
Podcast - Coolest Stuff on the Planet
Podcast - The Ax Files
Podcast - The Economist
Book - SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Podcast - Freakonomics
Podcast - Coolest Stuff on the Planet
Podcast - The Ax Files
Podcast - The Economist