Jonah Lehrer, one of our most brilliant Wired colleagues, just posted about the infectious nature of bad dancing. Checking out his hilarious video evidence, we couldn’t help but think of this fictional antecedent. Who knew you could learn so much ’bout neuroscience by watching terrible ’80s sex romps?
Gramsci // Jun 10, 2009 at 6:37 pm
For Milan Kundera this video would be worse than waterboarding.
Gramsci // Jun 10, 2009 at 6:40 pm
And I would cite Zimbardo’s Lucifer Effect before, as Lehrer does, the work of Milgram. This is more like car smashing than looking up at skyscrapers.
Brendan I. Koerner // Jun 10, 2009 at 10:19 pm
@Gramsci: Fortunately for Mr. Kundera, YouTube is likely far beyond his standard purview. Judging by accounts such as the one below, he strikes me as a manual-typewriter sort of bloke:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gRRDrMdLEXUgrCFeYn0WcX6eFSlw