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StanfordUniversity - November 10, 2008 - WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT October 9, 2008 lecture by Philip Zimbardo during the 2008 Reunion Homecoming Classes Without Quizzes program. Why do good people turn evil? In what sense are evil and heroism comparable? How could the little old Stanford prison experiment reveal parallels and insights about the abuses by military guards at Abu Ghraib? Philip Zimbardo, professor of psychology, emeritus, is internationally recognized as a leading "voice and face of contemporary psychology" through his widely seen PBS-TV series, Discovering Psychology, his media appearances, best-selling trade books on shyness, and his classic research, The Stanford Prison Experiment.

Memorial Day takes place on every last Monday of each May. It becomes United States federal holiday to remember those people who died during military service and fought for the Civil War and the World War I.

An Israeli soldier posted herself photos on Facebook in uniform. She smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. It gets sharp criticism Monday from the Israeli military and Palestinian officials.

A former Army Specialist in Baghdad explains why the leaker of the WikiLeaks documents is a hero

Gary, who suffers from Asperger syndrome, is being abandoned by his own government and thrown accross the pond to be tried in a US *Military* Court