The Stanford Prison Experiment

BBC documentary on the Stanford Prison Experiment. If you don't know what the experiment is. In 1971 psychologist Philip Zimbardo wanted to see how people would respond in social extremes. Students would be chosen. On a coin flip, some would become guards others would be prisoners in a simulated Prison created on the school's campus.



The experiment is an insight that Authority and environment has a very strong effect on one's behavior. how people will take on and become the roles they are presented or told they are to be in an environment.
It reminds me of the experiment where they take brown and blue-eyed children for an experiment. They tell the blue-eyed children they are less than children with brown eyes. And tell the brown-eyed children they are less than children with blue eyes. If one's society says, acts or treats one in a certain way, treats one without dignity then soon negative and destructive behavior will happen.

African Civilizations

These videos follow Henry Louis Gates Jr. as he travels around the continent of Africa. He learns and gives information about Medieval African Civilizations and their connection to Europe, the Middle East, India, and China. There is a great deal of information here about different cultures, history, and art.
My only problem is the show does seem to focus more on how African cultures took things from these different places and reinterpreted them into their culture. This isn't a bad thing but I was thinking by the name of the title that it would focus more on the African Civilization themselves and would give more information about them before colonization by Europe and the encroachment of Islam.

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MAPS

This info graph gives an idea of what the true size of Africa is.

This video explain a lot about maps and how we use and see them.

Top 10 Lies You Were Taught In School

Top ten things you may have learned in school that are wrong