OUR weekly round-up of the crème de le crème of the web – from gifs to memes to videos to blogs. Readers with suggestions for next week’s round-up should contact Dina Rickman at The Week.
DO THE HARLEM SHAKEThe Harlem shake is, in the words of YouTube, the biggest web video trend of the month. More than 12,000 people have uploaded videos of themselves attempting the dance meme online. Here it is being attempted by a swim team:
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The real story behind the Stanford Prison ExperimentThe Explainer 'Everything you think you know is wrong' about Philip Zimbardo's infamous prison simulation
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Is it safe for refugees to return to Syria?Talking Point European countries rapidly froze asylum claims after Assad's fall but Syrian refugees may have reason not to rush home
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