Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Friday, 19 December 2008

Scientists: "People Still Willing to Torture"

The BBC is reporting that a group of scientists from, you guessed it, the US have repeated the famous Milgram experiments, to assess a persons capacity to 'torture' another, by administering electric shocks (think Peter Venkman at the start of Ghostbusters).
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The results this time? Same as last time:
"What we found is validation of the same argument - if you put people in certain situations, they will act in surprising and maybe often even disturbing ways."
What. A .Shock. (No pun intended)

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

The end is nigh?

Today, we may all be sucked into a hole on the French-Swiss border. (Theres a joke in there somewhere, I'm sure of it). Here's a nice introduction from the BBC website to what the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is all about.
See you on the other side...