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6/30/2009
CIA is hiring
5/31/2009
Milgram experiment and Asch's experiment
One of the most famous psychological experiments with, for me, very disturbing results and implications. In Milgram experiment, participants were instructed to ask other participants series of questions. If "student" reply was wrong, they were instructed to administer an electric shock. This experiment was to test how many people are willing to knowingly push a switch causing someone a pain or even endanger their life - simply because an authority told them to.
I really recommend to read the full Wikipedia article about this experiment, this is just a brief description.
Of course, no real danger is present, but participants do not know that. We must assume that the behaviour they show is similar to how they would react in real life. And the thought is quite scary.
When Milgram asked his coleagues, experienced psychologists, how many percent of participants will administer the lethal shock (450 V), they estimated noone would ever do that. In reality, more than 60 % of participant did. Two thirds of people were knowingly causing a threat of death just because an unknown authority told them so.
Many variants of this experiment in 1961 and following years showed that this was not a random behavior, but rather significant phenomenon - people are tought since their childhood to follow authorities' orders, even if they seem strange. They don't feel like decision-making people then, but rather they think of themselves as mere tools.
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5/23/2009
5/18/2009
White House Organic Garden Spikes Controversy
Samantha Bee investigates why Michelle Obama opening organic, green garden at the White House could be harmful. Frankly, I think she does a good job humiliating the hypocritical clerks and exposing their hidden motives.
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Obama's spokesman confiscates Journalist's cellphone
Way to get the press coverage. These are the enhanced interrogation techniques, I guess...
3/06/2009
Search for reviews on Google - QRS
How to find reviews using Google? Quick Review Search might be the answer. It is basically a Customized Google Search, specialized on searching reviews on trusted domains. Trusted reviews can by found on sites like gizmondo.com or dpreview.com, and these are the domains this new customized search looks in. QRS might prove useful, since otherwise the search results on product reviews are full of ads and e-shops.
Using Google for review searching is sometimes very tedious work - there is just too many e-shops. This Custom Search uses Google to search only trusted review webservers. Please give it a try and let us know how it goes.
3/04/2009
Obama's turning troops into GeekSquad, Jon says
The troops will have different tasks. Again. Jon highlight the similarities of Obama's and Bush's plans on how to "end" war in Iraq.
Maybe you should reclassify the soldiers as trees so they never have to go...b
Maybe you should reclassify the soldiers as trees so they never have to go...b
2/22/2009
George Bush and his Watergate
What was president Bush's "Watergate"? It might very well be his handling of Enron scandal...
Lewis Black notices how similar the rhetorics of Bush and Cheney are to the ones of Nixon...
Lewis Black notices how similar the rhetorics of Bush and Cheney are to the ones of Nixon...
1/24/2009
FOX News biased against Barack Obama
This is crazy. FOX News start blaming president Obama only 24 hours after he's sworn in. Wow. Some of those are really childish claims, too.
11/23/2008
Barack Obama on his way to White House - fine moments
Ted Kennedy supported Baracka Obama
Barack Obama drains 3-point jumper on first try in Kuwait during his numerous travels
Obama elected president of USA
Let's see what change he might bring. There are already lot of speculation. Will Obama get rid of daylight saving time? If you go deeper, you find that he probably never said that. Two scientist only mentioned that it might be good idea and it would be compliant with Obama's environmental policy. But another blog writes:
That's more like it. Anyway, I think it would be a good move.
Barack Obama drains 3-point jumper on first try in Kuwait during his numerous travels
Obama elected president of USA
Let's see what change he might bring. There are already lot of speculation. Will Obama get rid of daylight saving time? If you go deeper, you find that he probably never said that. Two scientist only mentioned that it might be good idea and it would be compliant with Obama's environmental policy. But another blog writes:
In order to conserve energy, President-elect Barak Obama wants to eliminate daylight saving timeI turns out that he never said it. The author of the green blog realized it and now it reads:
In order to conserve energy, President-elect Barak Obama should eliminate daylight saving time.
That's more like it. Anyway, I think it would be a good move.
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