Antonella is taking over the studio today for an all new Free Topic Program. While on youtube, watching stupid kitchen videos, she stumbled upon a documetary on the horrific and quite disturbing experiment put together by Stanford psicology professor Philip Zimbardo in the early 70s: a bunch of college students, half guards, half prisoners, trapped in a Stanford basement disguised as a prison. What could possibly go wrong? SPOILER ALLERT: everything! Also on this Podcast: the Milgram experiment, Golding's Lord of the Flies and some thoughts on the perils of the Internet.
Edit: Professor Milgram did his experiment on Obedience in 1961, not in 1973 as I wrongly said in the Podcast.
