All rights reserved. Yes, I did mean to kill. Leaving a son, a- a- alone with his dead mother. ", And the class ended, and I went back to my office, and I just sat at my desk, and I started reading these. As far as I know, I don't know if I did or not. Radiolab is supported by Casper. These are- these are people who are incredibly noble. Yeah, I carried your oxygen and you walked beside me through the lobby commenting on the decor. And why I cared for her because I dated her before, but this day didn't turn out right. Wow. Only then does God speak up and kind of say, like, "You're gonna question me?" So, it's very-. With my arm. Natural deposits would be like seaweed or-, Actually two nations in South America went to war-. Only 10% under those circumstances go on. And "Because women have stepped on me all my life." They've got a- a very plausible, very credible high status scientist at a high status scientific institution. Yeah. And I just sat at my desk and started reading these. Ear drums, God. Well what is something's happened, the man had an attack or something there? The first victims of the Green River killer were found in the summer of 1982. You're not the first one. We're going to meet her later. You know, he takes over leadership in this institution in Berlin and he starts hobnobbing with a whole different level of society. So, they sit down in the chair thinking, "Wow. If any sizable fraction actually acted on their homicidal fantasies, the streets would be running red. RadioLab is supported by Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. 35.3M . This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Oh, that right there, slap some quotations around that. Haber finds himself in a little town in Belgium called-. This is actually mean to be bad anyways. And he was wearing a fur coat-. Horrified like, "Oh my God, my students are murderers?" Uh, he was doing his- his great science work right around the turn of, uh, the 20th century. I liked her. And I used to socialize with him and his wife. It was about how far would these people go? You know, what does he say? The expectation is somebody is made to make his peace with his maker before he dies. So then Hey wait, I'm almost done guys, give me two more minutes, two more minutes. Even past when they were screaming in pain. Podcasts; . This was a moment when human cruelty was on trial. Iago. What did you remember since we last talked [inaudible 00:57:19]? And "Well, why the rage?" When you press one of the switches, all the way down, the learner gets a shock. Don't you think you should look in on him, please? For information about Sloan, at www.sloan.org. You're cut down before then. Wow. And actually this wasn't just a German thing, a lot of people were beginning to worry that with about a billion and a half people on the planet, at that point, that maybe we were maxing out, that the earth couldn't support this many people. And then he seemed fine. And it's moving at about one meter per second. Unusually so in those times. Literally disappeared for six months, and didn't tell anyone where she was because she was terrified that he was going to kill her. Radiolab is supported by Audible. Prosecution, [crosstalk 00:12:03] the Attorney General. He takes command of them partially, he travels to the front. 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 . That's one of the things that we- that we need to know. Well there's something distasteful about the fact that he was too into it, but I do think on some level, you have to divorce the man from his deeds, and you got to ask, "Is the world better with him or without him?" I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed. This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12, by 2050. And this is was the difference between Kaiser Wilhelm and, of course, Hitler's Germany. That's Stanley Milgram talking about the experiment in a film in case you've never heard of this. In that moment, my father, he stands up and he says. Well, I can use that same process to make explosives because the thing that you put into the ground to grow more food is also the thing you can explode to make a bomb.". Thank you to Jim Shapiro, whose most recent book is called Contested Will. They're not doing something because they have to. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). Radiolab is supported by Casper. I'm good. Again, it's a pretty big thing to miss. The general's name is Othello. And he said, "To start, you want to know about bad? So during World War I, Haber's Institute had developed a formulation of insect killing gas called zyklon. Especially when it came to one particular fact. All right. And the rough statistics are that half of each of our bodies contains nitrogen from the Haber process. You know [crosstalk 00:25:00]. ", In Titus Andronicus, there's a character by the name of-, There's a moment in the play when Aaron gets up on stage, looks at the audience and says, "Let me just tell you the kinds of things I've been up to recently. Radiolab is supported by Audible. I don't think I've ever had a fantasy that- that anatomically specific where I would see the part of the other person that I was going to stab or plan it like that. But he organizes soldiers, he organizes whole gas units. He would obscure. This is just a tsunami of evil that passes through the play. In Seattle today a man called the Green River killer-. Like, he didn't intend for that to happen. They were gagging, they were choking; hundreds of them were falling to the ground like-. That's what's horrifying about it, but imagine they were administering pain to themselves. These little nitrogen atoms will fiercely hold together and it's almost impossible to pry them apart. I just needed to kill her." Yes, this is one of the things that sparked my interest in the topic of murder. Can't keep holding it all in. And I was just astonished-. I invited him for dinner. RadioLab is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 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. Then suddenly the thought occurred to me that my life would be much happier without him in existence.". He would dance around things. He's bad. As soon as it did, soldiers began to convulse. Terrestrials: A New Kids Show from Radiolab. Yeah, well (laughing). Come over now.". Even now. Who they would kill, where they'd do it, when. Clara, also from Breslau, also from a Jewish family. The Bad Show Jul 27, 2018. Live shows were first offered in 2008. Or nice chair? "Definitely yes.". He recruited a bunch of subjects. Next, we meet a man who scrambles our notions of good and evil: chemist Fritz Haber, who won a Nobel Prize in 1918around the same time officials in the US were calling him a war criminal. Yes. He would say over and over again. Like, maybe he thinks Othello is sleeping with his wife, we're not sure. You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry? This is just somebody who's performing brain surgery without anesthesia on other people. Is that how you say that? This story made us wonder, "Is David's friend-". Would change where the shocker and the shock-ee sat. Visit rocketmortgage.com/radiolab. His health is failing in 1934, he takes a trip to Switzerland to a sanatorium-. He'll be our guide for the segment. And once again, another nitrogen compound. So I'm just going to go into this other room over here. The thing is that I do have a new boyfriend, but my ex-boyfriend doesn't know that yet, and I'm terrified that he'll do what he says. I-. 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. And- and part of the problem here, and although, once again, we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Eugene [inaudible 01:07:32], Sierra Hahn, and everyone in the manuscript and archives department at the Yale University Library. I'm going to resign.". Don't- don't the man's health mean anything? What follows is this ongoing conversation between Job and his friends about why does this happen? He's standing there on the front pushing the gas into the lungs of other human beings. Well talk about Fritz Haber. Yeah. The most common source of nitrogen is in the air around us. Around this same time, officials in the US government are calling him a war criminal. Well that's to [inaudible 00:19:32], just cut it out. But he organizes soldiers, he organizes whole gas units. Yeah, but those are fantasies, they're some of them actually seem like-, Okay, this is a 20 year old female. If this is the singular moment in Shakespeare where he gives you an un-understandably evil man, no motives, no reason; any idea what the hell he was intending? Takes command of them partially. But that's just a- those are fantasies. 1933 comes. The thing is that I do have a new boyfriend, but my ex boyfriend doesn't know that- that yet, and I'm terrified that he'll do what he says. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of. And, you know, the class ended and I went back to my office. I'm really proud of Job, he believes in me, and he trusts me in so much, and he has such great faith in me. 'cause actually he studied between 20 and 40 different variants of this same paradigm. And every time that guy got a word wrong-. He says, "Well, we can drive those enemy soldiers out of trenches with gas. It was- it was a warning smell so that people didn't inadvertently breathe it in and get sick. But in all of these other scenarios, they don't. Who is going to do this powerful piece of science. And so, uh, when I went to the party, the party was already in full swing when I got there. And 84 percent of the women. Which was sort of asking these questions like, "What makes a person inherently good or bad? In- in other words, nitrogen has really strong attachments to itself. A box of ashes. ", Yes I did need to kill. These are people who are incredibly noble, they are. Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. They spent the next six months interrogating him, they brought in psychiatrists, and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. We want what Elizabethans got at the scaffold, which was a confession. We'll basically bring it to the front, and when the wind is right, we'll just spray it. "I need to kill because of that." So he starts experimenting. This is RadioLab. Said, "Deadly enmity between two friends make poor men's cattle break their necks, set fire on barns, and haystacks in the night, and bid the owners quench them with their tears. The leaves would just sort of shrivel, and the grass was turning to the color of metal. And he did too. Like, you know, "Who are you?". That's like an adult blue whale of chlorine. Does he- is he saying what I think he's saying? Yeah (laughs). I have a choice, I'm not going to go ahead with it. I mean it's a fact, of course, that they're administering pain to a stranger, that's what's horrifying about it, but imagine they were administering pain to themselves. Look, the participants, it's not just blind obedience, "Oh you tell me so, yes sir, no sir, three bags full, sir.". I'm Jad Abumrad. And I devoted one class session to the topic of homicide and why people kill. In Seattle today a man called the Green River killer-. I'm gonna-. So, how do you feel about him now because I don't know I can't help but feel bad for the guy? Bonobos. ", "We'll basically bring it to the front and when the- when the wind is right, we'll just spray it.". Is an absolute order. And what makes a bad person so bad that he's different from the rest of us? 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. Nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and proteins. But it wasn't until a few years later that he learned something that really put what happened that night into context. Thanks to all our great storytellers. And he says, "Because of the rage." So, you don't know. The Germans were on one side, the French, the Canadians, and the British on the other. We have nothing. And also, thank you to Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. Okay. 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. Why does God allow this to happen? You know what's going to happen if she pisses you off. Support Radiolab today atRadiolab.org/donate. They brought in psychiatrists and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. He would give all his baddies at least one moment where they could be understood. He's a man adrift. Radiolab is supported in part by the Alfred P Sloan Foundation enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. All rights reserved. Just because of a mathematical summing up. Very distinctive looking man, bald on top, trim nice mustache, wore a little [pince-nez 00:28:20]. Like, you walked into the room, what- what do you find? We were just enacting an old very famous experiment you may have heard about. What does it actually mean to be bad anyways? Let me- let me jump just, uh, a quote in front of me. And today evil, although, I don't know if that's the right word for this next thing. Why did you do this?" The Gatekeeper | Radiolab Podcast - YouTube THE GATEKEEPER 0:00 / 48:50 Joyce Daubert takes Bendectin for nausea and Jason is born with birth defects The Gatekeeper | Radiolab Podcast. [1] Radiolab was founded by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich in 2002. And he is basically homeless at this point. So you ask like, "Why do people do bad things?". I don't think I ever had a fantasy that anatomically specific where I would see the part of the other person that I was going to stab or plan it like that. And to this day they have not talked about that day. In a lab at Yale University with a bunch of regular Americans. Suddenly I'm thinking this is actually a darker interpretation. connect it to this little electrode to your finger. It's called Too Much Information. He believes in me and he trusts me and so much. And you have a number of chemical reactions. How could you? He had snapped. Um, we lived together for a couple months. And I heard about him from science writer, Sam Kean. And if they still were resisting or struggling, they'd get proud number three. Gary starts going through this narrative of what he did to Carol. The fact that he kept on doing it over, and over, and over again was like, "Come on.". So- so first of all, could you just like, uh, when did he live and what did he look like and that kind of stuff? "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age. It immediately became apparent that there was going to be difficulties. And even when they do say, "Yes." "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age." But if you think that's the right thing, if you think that science is worth pursuing you say, "Okay, I'll go along with this.". Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). "I need to kill because of that." Let's expect more from technology, let's put smart to work, visit ibm.com/smart to learn more. The reason why he's telling all this stuff is because he has cut a deal. It was a warning smell so that people didn't inadvertently breathe it in and get sick. Whether the learner likes it or not, we must-, What's interesting is that how all of these struggles, all of them-, Play out the same way. But in all of these other scenarios, they don't. My name's Benjamin Walker and here are some RadioLab credits. But if you think that's the right thing. In Shakespeare, or life. This is Jeff Jensen and he's a reporter in LA. Hi, my name's Josh and I'm calling from Harlem, New York. He would change where the shocker and the shockee sat. He just kind of went crazy. We lived together for a couple months, he was very aggressive, he started calling me a whore, and told me he didn't love me anymore, so I broke up with him. Cruelty, violence, badness. So he decided he was going to invent a process to pay for these reparations by himself. There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting a thought that he had anything to do with Zyklon B, but he did. Go. Whether it was feeding, or killing, or-, And he does. So basically, at 6 p.m. on April 22nd-. Yeah. God. And maybe forces hydrogen in the tank. Yeah, me too. He wrote this graphic novel that I read about one of the most prolific serial killers in US history. It's like a downloadable from the internet instant defense for doing wrong, but if you look at Milgram's work closely. How many of them went into that kind of detail? You know [crosstalk 00:10:58]. And the number of chemical reactions. That allows an individual to act inhumanely-, It's like a downloadable from the internet; instant defense for doing wrong. So, let me just get that ov- I mean-, So, again, the baseline study is the one where 65% of the volunteers-. TRANSCRIPTS We are working to provide transcripts for as much of our programming as we can over. And he throws himself at one of the central issues facing Germany at that time. 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. I got to tell you, um, I'm not totally comfortable that you are providing all the information about-. 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. In December of 2001, my father and his colleagues, uh, made the arrest. 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