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The Game of Death is an adaptation of an infamous experiment conducted by a team led by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s. In order to test people's obedience to authority figures, the scientists demanded that subjects administer increasingly strong electric shocks to other participants if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Game of Death: France's Shocking TV Experiment | 3/17/2010 | See Source »

But media critic Daniel Schneidermann says it would be wrong to limit any conclusions drawn from the show to the impact of television alone. "The Milgram experiment showed that people will submit to authority no matter what its form: military, political, medical, a boss - or now a television host," he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Game of Death: France's Shocking TV Experiment | 3/17/2010 | See Source »

Exponent has also played a part in challenging a sudden-acceleration experiment on a Toyota Avalon conducted by researchers at Southern Illinois University. The SIU study was presented to Congress and highlighted by ABC News, but the report was called into question when the university's researchers were found to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toyota's Counterattack: Can It Recover? | 3/16/2010 | See Source »

In the last years of his life, Kapuscinski himself openly acknowledged that his work was not straight news reporting. "I aim to create such a way of writing which is not possible to categorize and which I call for my own use 'a new text,' " he said in an interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did a Polish Journalist Mix Fact with Fantasy? | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

The same question could be asked about mainland Chinese. If Hong Kong becomes democratic, presumably they'll agitate for change as well. And that could destabilize a country bent on a quiet, stable rise. Yet there's room for a small-scale democratic experiment. China's economic miracle started with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hong Kong Getting Any Closer to Real Democracy? | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

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