Knowledge

**Links to articles about knowledge**

 * [|Do we always seek knowledge?] What factors influence how we, as individuals and societies, decide what knowledge to pursue?**

"To test or not to test" Why, when treatment is freely available, would so many choose not to find out if they are HIV positive? Jonny Steinberg investigates in a remote South African village.


 * [|What makes particular new knowledge most important within its own area?]**

//To what extent would you accept that these are the top scientific discoveries of 2008? How, alternatively, would you establish which discoveries are the "top ten"? According to what criteria?//


 * [|Can we trust our sense perceptions completely?] As critical thinkers, what means do we have of evaluating the accuracy of our picture of the world?**

"Body swap research shows that self is a trick of the mind" by James Randerson, Science Correspondent. Dec 3, 2008
 * Scientists create illusion of out-of-body experience
 * Technique may be used to treat phantom limb pain

[|The Memory Doctor] How can your memory be manipulated in 2010?

[|Beyond Belief - Science, Reason, Religion and Survival] Series of 10 lectures / debates with leading scientists and philosophers.