Category: Social issues

  • Ten questions with Dr. Philip Zimbardo

    Dr. Philip Zimbardo was the psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), where in 1971 in a fake environment students experiemented with the influence of the environment on the apparition of behaviours that are considered as highly anti-social (quite normal graduate students played the roles of guards and prisoner, and quickly -in 6 days- derailed…

  • South Africa: AIDS plan, at last

    South Africa is a country suffering a lot from AIDS. The HIV virus is present in too large a part of the population, even more if we think about the advanced economy of this African country. But up to now, the government was doing nothing, or nearly nothing. This is changing with the announcement of…

  • 10 reasons it doesn’t pay to be “The Computer Guy”

    Shaun Boyd is too clairvoyant about being “The Computer Guy”. Yes! This is more than often a bad idea. And he gives the 10 reasons why. Aren’t we all staying hooked on the phone to help repair a computer we’d just like to see blown to pieces? Some would add: “Don’t tell my mother that…

  • 09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0, prohibited number

    Since the AACS (the protection of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray against copying) is technically broken, there was only one lock left: after unlocking tools, there was the need for the publication of the needed key to allow easy operation. The MPAA tries to ban this famous key number from the Internet while it keeps popping up…

  • Test Chinese censorship

    As you certainly know, continental/communist China is one of those countries that have an institutionalized censorship system to protect its citizens. It starts with a very strong management of Internet cafés, but it is also based upon a stringent filtering of many web sites out of the country and judged as undesirable. Very efficient, but…

  • Online SciFi monthly: Darker Matter

    Online SciFi monthly: Darker Matter

    For the Science Fiction fans that stop by this site, here is a new monthly online web site whose #2 is just published. Very good reading material, interesting authors and you can even have your own work published (and be paid for it). Very nice, very pro: Darker Matter.