10 Psychological Experiments That Went Horribly Wrong Psychology as we know it is a relatively young science, but since its inception it has helped us to gain a greater understanding of ourselves and our interactions with the world. Many psychological experiments have been valid and ethical, allowing researchers to make new treatments and therapies available, and giving other insights into our motivations and actions. Sadly, others have ended up backfiring horribly — ruining lives and shaming the profession. Here are ten psychological experiments that spiraled out of control. 10. Prisoners and guards In 1971, social psychologist Philip Zimbardo set out to interrogate the ways in which people conform to social roles, using a group of male college students to take part in a two-week-long experiment in which they would live as prisoners and guards in a mock prison. 9. Wendell Johnson, of the University of Iowa, who was behind the study Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, also seen top 7. 6. The Milgram Experiment underway 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Futuristic mega-projects by Shimizu Japanese construction firm Shimizu Corporation has developed a series of bold architectural plans for the world of tomorrow. Here is a preview of seven mega-projects that have the potential to reshape life on (and off) Earth in the coming decades. - Luna Ring In response to the ever-growing demand for energy, Shimizu has developed plans for the Luna Ring, a project that seeks to transform the Moon into a massive solar power plant. Luna Ring's 11,000-kilometer (6,800-mile) "solar belt" spans the Moon's equator Electricity collected by the Luna Ring's enormous "solar belt" is relayed to power conversion facilities located on the near side of the Moon. Luna Ring feeds power to energy-hungry Earth The solar power plant is built mainly using lunar resources. Large machinery and equipment from Earth is assembled in space and landed on the lunar surface for installation. - Green Float Lily pad-like cities at sea Each floating island features a 1,000-meter (3,300-ft) central tower. + Video
the Anarchist Library Liberty - Mother, not Daughter of Order "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. Samuel Adams, (1722-1803) U.S. Anarchist Thinkers Mikhail Bakunin, a founding father of Anarchism. Miscellaneous Essays, Articles, etc. Review of the "Anarchist" Cookbook, raises doubts about this classic piece of disinformation. Short list of Anarchist Links - Large page of Anarchist Images - Return to Flag Home What on earth! | Esther Havens Humanitarian Photography I am traveling with Austin Mann in Ethiopia working on the final prep for our Light The World workshop. We looked up to the sky to see the strangest thing i’ve probably ever seen. What on earth could it be. We just sat in wonder as the colors changed and shifted shapes behind the clouds. I barely touched these so you can see how insane this looks straight out of the camera. UPDATE: Check out Austin Mann’s BLOGPOST of the rainbow cloud. UPDATE: 8/24/2011 NASA’s Picture of the day 8/24/2011 with explanation as to what on earth this is. UPDATE: 8/26/2011 Yahoo! UPDATE: 8/30/2011 PRINTS FOR SALE:
Smoothie Recipes For Everything Who knew that the solution to most our problems could be solved with a smoothie?! Smoothie Recipes For Everything infographic from Super Skinny Me gives you the ingredients and visually represents the amount of each that should put in. Trying to lose weight? Is there anything as versatile, adaptable and convenient as a smoothie? The major issue I have with this design is that the proportions visualized for each smoothie aren’t accurate to the recipe. Also, the actual amounts of each ingredient aren’t shown. Found on superskinnyme.com
Your Age on Other Worlds | Exploratorium - StumbleUpon Want to melt those years away? Travel to an outer planet! <div class="js-required"><hr> This Page requires a Javascript capable browser <hr></div> Fill in your birthdate below in the space indicated. The Days (And Years) Of Our Lives Looking at the numbers above, you'll immediately notice that you are different ages on the different planets. The earth is in motion. The top-like rotation of the earth on its axis is how we define the day. The revolution of the earth around the sun is how we define the year. We all learn in grade school that the planets move at differing rates around the sun. Why the huge differences in periods? Johannes Kepler Tycho Brahe Kepler briefly worked with the great Danish observational astronomer, Tycho Brahe. Here you see a planet in a very elliptical orbit. Kepler's third law is the one that interests us the most. Let's just solve for the period by taking the square root of both sides: The Gravity Of The Situation Isaac Newton ©2000 Ron Hipschman
Design Daily: The World's Simplest Mobile Phone | Technology on GOOD Writing for PSFK, Floyd Haynes recounts his reversal from iPhone fanboy to smart-phone abdicator. The combination of muffled conversations, dropped calls, and a creeping feeling that constant connectedness was complicating his life prompted a quest for simplification. That's precisely what he found in John's Phone, the world's simplest mobile phone. It's made by the Dutch design company John Doe Amsterdam. Here's a video of Haynes's first look at the phone. Wonderful. Falling Skies [Temporada 2][Serie][2012][Ep.1-6]-HD | EstrenosDivx Falling Skies [Temporada 2][Serie][2012] [Ep.1-10] HD [Completa] Publicado por H. S. el 20 agosto, 2012 SINOPSIS: Falling Skies es una nueva serie producida por DreamWorks Television para TNT que tiene a Steven Spielberg como productor ejecutivo. Noah Wyle (ER) es Tom Mason, un antiguo profesor universitario que se convierte en el líder de un grupo de soldados y civiles que luchan contra la fuerza alienígena que ha invadido y ocupado la Tierra. Moon Bloodgood (Terminator Salvation) es Anne Glass, una terapeuta que trabaja con niños supervivientes ayudándolos a superar la traumática situación. Reparto: Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup Temporada 1 : Falling Skies [Temporada 1][Serie][2011][Completa] Capítulos: 10.Género: Sci-Fi.Duración: 60 Minutos.Creador: Robert Rodat.Producción ejecutiva: Steven Spielberg.Estudio: TNT. Terminos de busqueda: Puedes dejar un comentario , o trackback de tu sitio. EstrenosDivx en Facebook
IFS Fractal in the Space What Is Intelligence, Anyway? What Is Intelligence, Anyway? By Isaac Asimov What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn't mean anything. All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too. Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests - people with intellectual bents similar to mine? For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Consider my auto-repair man, again.
Binaural Beats Choose a Binaural Beat to suit your mood from the below. Note that in order for Binaural Beats to work, they must be played though headphones. Basic Beats Deep Meditation Hangover Helper Roommate Annihilator Self Hypnosis Sleepy Time Super Focus! Wakeful SuperPower WARNING: DO NOT listen to Binaural Beats while driving, operating equipment, or any other task that requires concentration. DO NOT listen to Binaural Beats if you have experienced seizures in the past or have epilepsy. How It Works When two tones of specific frequencies are played through headphones, the brain can become confused and produce its own, imagined tone—a three-dimensional audio hallucination heard only within the head of the listener. What is happening is that the brain is not used to hearing frequencies in each ear so close together and with such intensity—these sounds do not occur in nature and so a mechanism in our brains has not evolved to understand them.
Aho/Ullman Foundations of Computer Science This book has been taken out of print by W. H. Freeman. --- Al Aho and Jeff Ullman Index The Book | Materials | Gradiance | Errata PDF's of the Book PrefaceTable of ContentsChapter 1 Computer Science: The Mechanization of Abstraction Chapter 2 Iteration, Induction, and Recursion Chapter 3 The Running Time of Programs Chapter 4 Combinatorics and Probability Chapter 5 The Tree Data Model Chapter 6 The List Data Model Chapter 7 The Set Data Model Chapter 8 The Relational Data Model Chapter 9 The Graph Data Model Chapter 10 Patterns, Automata, and Regular Expressions Chapter 11 Recursive Description of Patterns Chapter 12 Propositional Logic Chapter 13 Using Logic to Design Computer Components Chapter 14 Predicate Logic Index Supplementary Materials Gradiance Package Available Gradiance is offering a free trial of its automated homeworks for the topics covered by this book. Errata Sheet We are going to try to maintain errata.
An Overview of Cryptography As an aside, the AES selection process managed by NIST was very public. A similar project, the New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity and Encryption (NESSIE), was designed as an independent project meant to augment the work of NIST by putting out an open call for new cryptographic primitives. NESSIE ran from about 2000-2003. CAST-128/256: CAST-128, described in Request for Comments (RFC) 2144, is a DES-like substitution-permutation crypto algorithm, employing a 128-bit key operating on a 64-bit block. A digression: Who invented PKC? 3.3. Let me reiterate that hashes are one-way encryption. Hash algorithms that are in common use today include: Message Digest (MD) algorithms: A series of byte-oriented algorithms that produce a 128-bit hash value from an arbitrary-length message. A digression on hash collisions. Without meaning to editorialize too much in this tutorial, a bit of historical context might be helpful.
50 Online Tools That Will Help You Boost Productivity and Earn More Money One of the great things about the web is the number of useful tools that can aid you in keeping track of all that you have to do and manage. More importantly, many of these tools can be used to save time, increase productivity, and earn more money. Perhaps the only downfall is the sheer number of tools that are available. Thankfully, I’ve done most of the work for you. Below you’ll find a list of the absolute best online tools. You don’t need to use all of them. So without further adieu, here’s the list… Table Of Contents You can jump to any section by clicking the links below or just scroll down to view all of the online tools. Project Management Tools 1. MindMeister allows your team to be more innovative by providing a shared collaboration and brainstorming environment using the proven mind mapping technique. 2. Freedcamp promises to be a free project management tool without restrictions on how many users or projects you can manage. 3. 4. Backpack is an easy intranet for your business. 5.