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**Instructions:**

Use the below table to record potential resources that you believe will be helpful in the exploration of Title #1. If you find something that you think is valuable, show it to your TOK teacher so they can approve its value and then they can add it to the table. Before you approach your teacher, please ensure that you have the information to fill all of the fields of a row.

Truthiness, truth and facts: they couldn't be further apart in the world of knowledge making, it seems ||
 * Title and Other Bibliographical Information of the Resource || Link/Where to Find the Resource || Explanation of How this Resource Could be Applied to the Title ||
 * ===**The myth of religious violence.**=== || http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/-sp-karen-armstrong-religious-violence-myth-secular || A little history of secularism: does the marginalisation of religion explain growth of fundamentalism? ||
 * ===**Belief, bias, and Bayes.**=== || http://www.theguardian.com/science/life-and-physics/2014/sep/28/belief-bias-and-bayes || How a mathematical formula helps describe nature of scientific method which helps to explain bias ||
 * ===**Trust, morality - and oxytocin?**=== || http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_zak_trust_morality_and_oxytocin/transcript?language=en || =====Oxytocin the 'moral molecule'? Experiments suggest it gives us an ethical meaning & purpose in life...===== ||
 * ===WWII Enigma Machine: The Enigma Project=== || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elYw4Ve4F-I || =====Brief insight into how mathematical thinking helped design and engineer an efficient system of coding and decoding in ONE machine!===== ||
 * ===Brain-Computer Interface Allows Person-to-person Communication Through Power Of Thought=== || http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091006102637.htm || Power of Thought: theories about brain to brain communication to help treat medical conditions ||
 * ===Free Will: Is Your Brain the Boss of You?=== || http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/06/30/free-will-is-your-brain-the-boss-of-you-video/ || Your brain & knowledge of free will: a constant moral principle that shapes human nature & decisions? ||
 * ===8 pieces of advice for thriving in a world of constant change=== || http://ideas.ted.com/2014/07/08/how-to-thrive-in-a-world-where-change-is-constant/ || Orchestrating complexity: advice on how to use intuitive thinking to shape the unknown of the present ||
 * ===What's So Funny?: The Science of Humor=== || http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/humor-science-weems/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed || Cathexis: the science of funny & how laughter really is the best medicine for conflicting emotions ||
 * ===A hundred walked out of my lecture=== || https://richarddawkins.net/2014/08/a-hundred-walked-out-of-my-lecture/ || Memes & memeplexes: explaining the 'truthiness' of religion in terms of evolution theory ||
 * ===**Wikipedia - Truthiness.**=== || http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness || **To compliment/make sense (!) of the link above:**