| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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8/06/2009
Chipms or Orangutanes?
8/04/2009
Obama kills a fly, Stewart is a wuss
News of the day (about month and half ago)?
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Obama Kills a Fly | ||||
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America versus Iran: Who knows whom better?
And, a bit surprisingly perhaps, Iran wins, answering all the questions about United States of America with flying colors. Jason Jones is frustrated admitting even the goat shepherds know his country fairly well.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Jason Jones: Behind the Veil - Ayatollah You So | ||||
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Other Behind the Veil episodes.
And in this episode of "Behind the Veil", Jones investigates why Iranians are so evil.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Jason Jones: Behind the Veil - Minarets of Menace | ||||
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If you like these, you will surely love John Oliver's travelling interviews.
It is not all just fun, though:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| Jason Jones: Behind the Veil - Persians of Interest | ||||
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7/31/2009
7/09/2009
US media crazy about Twitter
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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"This new technology sounds adorable! Here is how Twitter works: I have no f***ing idea!" As Samantha Bee says: "Young people love it, according to reports about young people made by middle-aged people."
"Because we're rotting corpses grabbing for any glimmer of relevance,” eplains Sam why all the politics and media truckle towards young people with facebooks, tweets and similar gimick.
6/30/2009
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.
Sources:
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.
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | M - Th 11p / 10c | |||
| Little Crop of Horrors | ||||
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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...
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