But he does it with a kind of amoral athleticism, he does it without humility, without a lot of doubt. And they would circle yes or no. Where . [inaudible 00:59:22] it's building up [inaudible 00:59:24]. Listen Now. So, basically at 6:00 pm at April 22nd. Cruelty, violence, badness. And this particular story, it comes from a book that David wrote. But even with all that gore and horribleness, there was often a moment that people waited for. Fast forward 10 years. Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" They're doing it because they think they ought to. in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and . And I devoted one class session to the topic of homicide and why people kill. Cruelty, violence, badness. He says that he's gonna- He's always been hiring people based on how smart they are and not who their grandparents were. Okay. But if looked at from another perspective, there's a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. So, here's the interesting thing. And Iago-, He refuses what we fully expect, and what everybody on stage, at that moment, fully expects from him. Right. And then, it was several hours later in the middle of the night that I got the call. When Lucy was only two days old she was adopted by a psychologist and his wife who wondered: if given the right environment, how human could Lucy . The leaves would just sort of shrivel, and the grass was turning to the color of metal. That's right. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of. You could say people were bat (beep) crazy. Birds would just fall from the air. Continuing using the last switch on the board please. James Shapiro, Professor of English at Columbia University. The most common source of nitrogen is in the air around us. And they would circle yes or no. And, um, in January of 1984, the Green River task force was formed. Well what is something's happened, the man had an attack or something there? It's a little bit more direct. And you have a number of chemical reactions. Um, with a black belt in karate. And why is it so important, do you think, to understand the why behind such an evil act? And he spent five years in a futile effort to distill gold from the ocean's waters. And he ran them through something like what you and I just did. "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age." She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in her country. Meanwhile later that night, the other side of town. Whether it was feeding, or killing, or-, And he does. Maybe this is the time they tell them to go brush their teeth or something. Of course normally just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. That is captured the nitrogen right out of the air. Stanley Milgram took electric shock very seriously. In graphic detail. Could you just tell me the little story that you begin your book with? And you tell us, "Actually, no. Despite the chlorine gas. He was in this state of fury, he said, and instead of hitting his wife, he smashed his fist into the bathroom mirror, and then realized that he had to leave the house, or he was going to do damage to her. And so in 1918, Fritz Haber gets the Nobel Prize. I do have a choice. As we continue listening to the Bad Show on human nature in our neighbors and ourselves, check out the Wave, which we mirrors the natural shape of your body, or the Casper mattress with zone support for your hips and shoulders for better alignment. Pat, go ahead. You know, just because of a mathematical summing up. Why does God allow this to happen? This is sort of chilling comparison, which is a speed that Himmler gave to the SS, some SS leaders, when they were, uh, about to commit a range of atrocities. They've got a very plausible, very credible, high status scientist at high status scientific institution. This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12, by 2050. "Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" And you've done this how many times before. They're, supposedly, chums but General Othello has no idea that that Iago-. He claimed they were in the middle of a sex act, he would get distracted, something would happen, he just kind of went crazy, he had snapped; and almost blaming the victims. And you tell us, "Actually, you know under some circumstances, we don't do the bad thing we're told to do because, here's another flip, we don't have to be told. Again, it's a pretty big thing to miss. I knew what he was capable of, so I suggested that we go out for a walk and I, basically, spent the next half hour walking around with him trying to cool him off. ", Only 10 percent, under those circumstances, go on. But that's just a- those are fantasies. But the weird thing is that he decides not just to take down Othello, but everybody. But as the play goes on, you begin to think that maybe that's just another lie. And he says, "Because of the rage." I think I call it [prince-nez 00:28:23], so I'm not sure. After all he knows what he can stand. What does he say? I got to tell you, um, I'm not totally comfortable that you are providing all the information about-. Now the volunteer couldn't see the guy he was shocking, but he could definitely hear him. It just that-, Yeah. Be right back. I mean, that's a pretty heady thing for, you know, a Jewish kid from Breslau to be hobnobbing with the Emperor and cabinet ministers. Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is produced by Soren Wheeler. Thanks also to reporter Aaron Scott for that story. That's Fritz Haber's wife. I just needed to kill because of that. They arrest Gary Le- Leon Ridgeway. They spent the next six months interrogating him, they brought in psychiatrists, and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. I dated her several times a year. She says, "What happened today?" Sort of unsportsmanlike. Yeah. He would deny things. So you ask like, "Why do people do bad things?". And at the very end of the play when everyone finds out what Iago's done, Othello asks him, "Why? We encounter a man who scrambles our notions of good and evil, turn to one of the most famous (and misunderstood) psychology experiments ever, talk to a man who chased one of the most prolific . And, you know, my view about human nature is that it affords infinite potential for lightness and dark. You know, on the other hand, I mean, if you look at the grand calculus, people he's he-helped or fed versus people he's killed, I mean, he's got fed billions of people, I don't know that you could entirely call him bad. Fact is if you don't continue, uh, we're going to discontinue the experiment. Thanks to all our great storytellers. And so, I ex- expanded the sample where we asked about 5000 people. Well, have you ever been blackmailed the way this woman was being blackmailed? It was actually a crushing blow for- for him. He walked out of the room, and just started weeping. And he is basically homeless at this point. How many times would they shock that sad-. And not just yeses. Was it nice day? My father's trying to, like, reach out to him. Okay. Now, we're seeing about a 100 million tons of synthetic fertilizer produced industrially each year and that tonnages then moves into our food source. 'cause actually he studied between 20 and 40 different variants of this same paradigm. It's absolutely essential that you continue. I mean-, So again, the baseline study is the one where 65 percent of the volunteers-, But in experiment number three, if they put the shock-ee in the same room-, With the shocker so the shocker could actually see the person that he's shocking-. I'm going to take a break. I knew she had a daughter and-. Ear drums, God. We're all great apes. Time's up. Each answer just begs another why. I mean, I'm not suggesting one should, but I'm just saying there is a sense in which these people are prepared to do something that's very painful to them, and to someone else, because they want to promote science; well, you can see that's a good thing. And to this day, they have not talked about that day, and he hasn't talked about it with anyone until I interviewed him for the book. You better check in on him, sir. The Bad Show Jul 27, 2018. Sixty-five percent-, To shock their fellow citizens, over and over again-. Of course, nobody wants to be killing other people; we realize this is hard work. He walked out of the room and just started weeping. Now, that right there, slap some quotations around that. And he finds her actually still alive, with the life about to run out of her. There's lots and lots of lessons here, but one is I think, you know, when you are enjoying to do something for the greater good, maybe ask yourself the question, what is greater and what is good? Now you're saying actually that you could read that, that very dark fact, as being actually evidence of something quite- quite noble. But the generals were not all that convinced. And then, realized that he had to leave the house or he was going to do damage to her. Addeddate 2012-10-10 05:15:40 Boxid OL100020610 Identifier wnycs-radiolab_the-bad-show Add Review 4 Views DOWNLOAD OPTIONS 1 file ITEM TILE 4 Files 4 Original This episode of Radiolab, we wrestle with the dark side of human nature, and ask whether it's something we can ever really understand, or fully escape. Very distinctive looking man, bald on top, trim nice mustache, wore a little [pince-nez 00:28:20]. David always known this guy to be pretty mild mannered. Visit our website. So, as we begin this episode of the Bad Show, check out The Blank Slate by Steven Pinkner, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind. And when you stick a seed, like a wheat seed in the ground. Uh, she, uh, expressed disapproval about his, um, clothing choices. The good Iagos make you want to shower the minute you leave the theater. And in experiment number four, when the teacher has to hold the learner's hand down-, If the experimenter is not a scientist, but is an ordinary man-. And my dad said, "I don't want to talk about it." In those days if you're a convicted male felon, you are strung up, but you're not allowed to hang until you die; you're cut down before then. And you like her. And he hasn't talked about it with anyone until I interviewed him for the book. And when hydrogen and nitrogen bond together, the thing you get-. And 84 percent of the women. So then Hey wait, I'm almost done guys, give me two more minutes, two more minutes. He, ultimately, spent 17 years searching for this man. His was the first generation when a young Jewish boy could truly imagine that he could just be a regular part of that society, he could do anything. Radiolab for Kids Presents: Terrestrials A show where we uncover the strangeness right here on Earth Romeo y Julieta A World Premiere Bilingual Audio Play. The reason why he's telling all this stuff is because he has cut a deal. And this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". Our thanks to Ben Walker, whose podcast he has a podcast and it's a good one. The story of Job is that one day God and Satan are having a conversation, and they're saying, "Have you checked out Job? Or nice chair? And he says that's what people wanted. I mean you have to remember, during the Crimean War in the 1850s, Europe starves. It gets bogged down. I mean-. But if you put two experimenters in the room, and-. Is an absolute order. David had always known this guy to be pretty mild mannered. A lot of them were like, "This is not how you fight a war.". Nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and proteins. So, around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. This you and this two other participants. Radiolab is supported by Audible. Yes 80 percent of the air is nitrogen atoms. Yeah, well (laughing). September 15, 2022 Radiolab for Kids and WNYC Studios present Terrestrials, a six-episode miniseries hosted by Lulu Miller (co-host of Radiolab . "The experiment requires that you continue.". And then he seemed fine. He is a solder, he works for a general, the general's name is Othello. For much the same reasons. Accuracy and availability may vary. And what happens is that your elbowing the nitrogen apart from itself, and then forcing it to bond with the hydrogen in a new way. They continued shocking their corpses. In a way we wait for it still. Now there's a footnote to this that is very strange. By this point, David moved on to a new university and he's teaching an introductory psychology class. They were gagging, they were choking. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. He would give all his baddies at least one moment where they could be understood. And in January of 1984, the Green River Task Force was formed, and my father was recruited to the task force. [2] To find page after page of yeses. 2K views almost 2 years ago 48:23 Love it or hate it, the freedom to say obnoxious and subversive things is the quintessence of what makes America America. He was trying to repeat this masterstroke. Radiolab is supported by Casper. So he decided he was going to invent a process to pay for these reparations by himself. That's radio producer Ben Walker. I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed. It's absolutely essential. "I need to kill because of that." Hmm. Do you leave this experiment in a light mood or in a dark mood overall? We don't exactly know why. My students are murderers.". Like, you know, "Who are you?". And they go, "Why?" So there's a way in which there's a touch of spark of humanity. Do we know? The Green River murders terrorized Seattle in the 1980s. Who they would kill, where they'd do it, when. So Jeff wrote this book because his father, Tom Jensen, was one of the lead detectives tracking Gary Ridgeway. But as far as I know, there are none for Radiolab.I think I once read a statement from Jad and/or Robert that they view the show as an audio experience, and so believe it can't be captured in a transcript. Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. Nobody had done what she was about to do on the scale that he was about to do it. I think I call it pince-nez, so I'm not sure. With help from Adam Cole, Rachel James, and Matt [Kielty 01:07:25]. And so I went up to the bedroom to find him and he was in a rage. So, right around 1900. Even now. He's chomping on a Virginian cigar. No. So, every day they would bring him into this conference room. Radiolab is supported by Casper. But this is why this is such an interesting guy, around the same time, officials in the U.S. government are calling him a war criminal. And even though in the end they got him to confess to these 49 murders, they never really get any closer to an answer than this first why. Literally disappeared for six months and didn't tell anyone where she was because she was terrified that he was going to kill her. I think you got to answer it, "With him." But 75% of the people who worked for him at the institute, they were Jewish. She was a- I knew she had a daughter in the last [crosstalk 01:01:03]. You literally get a drip, drip, drip, of ammonia. Takes command of them partially. Uh, walked in and asked his wife, uh, where this friend of mine was. Natural deposits would be like seaweed or-, You know, you could find it in cow manure or-. He eventually goes to England-. Now the volunteer couldn't see the guy he was shocking, but he'd definitely hear him. Haber starts thinking, "In order to do this we need to pressure this, we need to put it under a lot of pressure.". This story made us wonder is David's friend, is he unusual? No. He would dance around things. However, that leaves behind 20 million Germans. And, you know, it's a craft, but it's a craft with consequences. So, wait, if it doesn't show that people are just obeying orders-. We just need a whole lot more of one simple element. This has allowed the world to have seven billion people. In- in other words, nitrogen has really strong attachments to itself. Hmm. Because it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of humans' latent capacity for evil. He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. And as it happens, my father has very vivid memories of investigating the Carol Christensen murder. No one has a monopoly on bad. This is actually mean to be bad anyways. With higher and higher voltage. That one simple, "Why?" She had something else on her mind. Was it nice day, nice sky, nice job, or nice chair? We will begin with this test-. We have nothing. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Especially because she found out he was leaving the next day to direct more gas attacks. It's a graphic or an illustrated novel. He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. Radiolab: Lucy. In Seattle today a man called the Green River killer-. We take a look at one particular fantasy lurking behind these numbers, and wonder what this shadow world might tell us about ourselves and our neighbors. Up until that point, Gary refused to say that "From the minute I picked these women up I wanted to kill them." One of the reasons it grows, is because it's sucking up all the nitrogen in the soil. God, I feel like we haven't, you and I sat together and said our names in quite some time. Right? And he wrote this graphic novel that I read about one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history; Gary Leon Ridgeway, the Green River Killer. Let me just get that out. Like, you walked into the room, what- what do you find? In 2016, Abumrad took a four-month break from Radiolab, in large part to recharge from what he's described as burnout from the years of making the show in his distinctly intense and very. You know what's going to happen if she [inaudible 01:02:25]. "Well why can't you deal with it in a normal way?". And everyone thought, "Well, we know the solution.". Uh, it makes up four out of every five or so molecules that we breathe. Who they would kill, where they'd do it, when. It is a, the- the critical- the critical force prod. Stanley Milgram had four scripted prods that he wrote out for his experimenters for when the subjects didn't want to continue. This episode of Radiolab, we wrestle with the dark side of human nature, and ask whether it's something we can ever really understand, or fully escape. They're going to record it okay. Outside of WNYC, I think This American Life does as well, and I know enthusiastic fans transcribed Serial.. ", Yeah, we just need a whole lot more of one simple-. And to approach it with kind of crazy joy, I don't know. He felt publicly humiliated. Hey wait! He works for a general. He would obscure. It's like playing dirty. All rights reserved. She expressed disapproval about his clothing choices. Right. All right. See now around this point I just don't have anything to do with this guy, I just want to take a shower, walk-. Chimps. And they ask for it to be reformulated to take out the warning smell, and it becomes zyklon B, the killing gas of the concentration camps. The Green River murders terrorized Seattle in the 1980s. We'll basically bring it to the front, and when the wind is right, we'll just spray it. Takes away his wife, his children, all his material possessions. It's the experimenter. And as it happens, my father has very vivid memories of investigating the Carol Christensen murder. Hmm. I think they have to be extreme in the extreme. He would have each subject sit down at a table. Warning. And-. You know, "I just want to kill her. Hey, it's Fred Kaufman, I'm calling to read the credits; here we go. Gary is dancing around this topic. I mean, you know, it's just one of those things we've been bringing back shows that we think are just vibrating still in the world. And 91% of the men said yes. And-. Any idea what the hell he was intending? 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