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Was hat Sputnik mit dem Internet zu tun? Die Kuba-Krise mit dem OSI-Referenzmodell?

Dieses kleine Video erläutert in verständlichen Worten, wie aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen, kommerziellen und militärischen Netzen das geworden ist, was wir heute als Internet kennen.

Philip Zimbardo, who I featured twice already in this blog (How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib, Would you kill somebody if told to? ), visited the TED conference and told us about how easy it is for good people to turn bad and how simple it is to become a hero.

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I just saw a very interesting talk by Jensen Harris – the guy responsible for Office 2007’s user experience – about the development process of Office’s new UI Element “Ribbon”.

Stefan Niggemeier hat einen sehr interessanten Artikel über die sinkende Qualität im Online-Journalismus und die Jagd nach möglichst vielen PageImpressions veröffentlicht.

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Would you kill somebody if you were told to by your boss or an authority figure? “Of course not. Are you nuts?” is probably the most common answer to this question. However, this can not be backed up with psychological research carried out in the sixties and seventies.

After Nazi-Germany had collapsed and the world started to realize the unbelievable things that had happened, a lot of sociological and psychological experiments were carried out to understand if, how, and when ordinary people lose their humanity.