Visit rocketmortgage.com/radiolab. Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camp? Saying, "You know, the process that I used to make food? Live shows were first offered in 2008. Read these words. 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. And what he decided to do is go into the ocean, into sea water, which contains very small levels of gold. James Shapiro, Professor of English at Columbia University. Can we really know that? Now that's important, it's very important. It's called Too Much Information. And did you go back to the party then and continued dinner partying for a while? I mean you have to remember, during the Crimean War in the 1850s, Europe starves. And give up the few details that they really needed to link him, certifiably, to all these crimes. You know, just because of a mathematical summing up. (laughs). But Haber saw it as a wonderful success and wished- wished that the Germans had been better prepared to exploit it because he felt like they really could have made a terrific advance if they had had more confidence. Despite the chlorine gas, he didn't intend for that to happen. But even with all that gore and horribleness, there was often a moment that people waited for; and in a way we wait for it still, even now. It is, arguably, the most significant scientific breakthrough of them all. Yes. Check out the Casper or the Wave mattress with a support system that mirrors your body shape. This has allowed the world to have seven billion people. Nice sky? Then suddenly the thought occurred to me that my life would be much happier without him in existence.". If the experimenter is not a scientist, but is an ordinary man. Yeah, well. He's bald, he has a potbelly, he has these pince-nez spectacles, he's chomping on a Virginian cigar, he was always smoking these Virginian cigars and he's wearing a fur coat. Yes. The first victims of the Green River killer were found in the summer of 1982. If you breathed it in, it sort of irritates your lungs to the extent that they sort of fills up with fluid so quickly that you sort of drowning in your own phlegm. I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed. These are people who are incredibly noble, they are. Cruelty, violence, badness in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. They've got a- a very plausible, very credible high status scientist at a high status scientific institution. Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. And also a scientist. Um, although there's some (laughs) [crosstalk 00:02:19]. Okay. But harbor saw it as a wonderful success, and wished that the Germans had been better prepared to exploit it, because he felt they really could have made a terrific advance if they had had more confidence. Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves and set them upright at their dear friend's door. And while David's sitting in the bedroom with this friend, the guy looks up at him and he says-, Like, through his teeth. As far as I know, I don't know if I did or not. And then, walks away from his child and his wife dead in the garden and says-. When I picked them up, I was going to kill them." 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. So you ask like, "Why do people do bad things?". And we end with the story of a man who chased one of the most prolific serial killers in US history, then got a chance to ask him the question that had haunted him for years: why? How many of them went into that kind of detail? Although, clearly on some level they know it isn't. With help from Shima Oliaee, Carter Hodge, and Lisa Yeger. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org. He gets promoted to the rank of captain-. Uh, he's a master plotter. And my father wasn't buying it. ", Now you're saying actually that you could read that very dark fact as being actually evidence of something quite-, Well if you dressed up, and if you just had some minor variance to the paradigm you could, presumably, make this up. Telling a friend he felt like he'd lost his homeland. He would give all his baddies at least one moment where they could be understood. I mean, it's the fact that of course that they're administering main to a strange. This is just a tsunami of evil-, And at the very end of the play, when everyone finds out what Iago's done, Othello asks him, "Why? Let not your sorrows die though I am dead. 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. And as he was in the kitchen, looking stupid, peeling the carrots to make salad, I came up to him laughingly, gently, so that he wouldn't suspect anything. And when you stick a seed like weed seed in the ground-. And I designed a little, um, questionnaire where I simply ask the students, you know, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" We need to put it under a lot of pressure. So I'm just going to go into this other room over here. You know, this was like oil is today. The subjects range in occupation from corporation presidents, to Good Humor men, and plumbers. In a rage, uh, how? He, ultimately, spent 17 years searching for this man. And, "Because women have stepped on me all my life." Then the executioner castrates you, cuts you open, and takes out your internal organs, and then, separates your head, which is put on a post. There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting at the thought that he had anything to do with zyklon B; but he did. What you know you know. And he hasn't talked about it with anyone until I interviewed him for the book. The reason why he's telling all this stuff is because he has cut a deal. So around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. He takes command of them partially, he travels to the front. Is an absolute order. With higher and higher voltage. And he was someone who had very big ambitions. I'm going to resign.". And I devoted one class session to the topic of homicide and why people kill. Why did you take these women off the streets and want to destroy them? Um, this is one of the things that's, uh, this was one of the things that's sparked my interest in the topic of murder. Right now get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/radiolab and using Code Radiolab at checkout. But as the play goes on, you begin to think that maybe that's just another lie. She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in her country. We've got to know now. Some people describe it as a cloud, and then others describe it as this kind of 15 foot wall kind of hugging the land, and it's just sort of approaching. And then, the final one. And not just yeses. She says, "What happened today?" That's historian, Fritz Stern, who also happens to be Fritz Haber's godson. There's a sort of chilling comparison which is a speech that Himmler gave to some SS leaders when they were about to commit a range of atrocities. All right, just to back up for one second. I thought about grabbing a knife quickly and stabbing him in the chest repeatedly until he was dead. Now, we don't actually know if he threw a party. Hi, my name's Josh and I'm calling from Harlem, New York. Okay, we're going off tape now. And he said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is Of course, you don't want to do this. You've touched me. So Stanley Milgram actually begins these experiments the same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. I thought about grabbing a knife quickly and stabbing him in the chest repeatedly until he was dead. And, um, why is it so important do you think to understand the why behind such an evil act? This was a moment when human cruelty was on trial. And she said, "My ex boyfriend. That's my opinion that's where I'm going to stand on it. You're bad." A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The whole thing happened serveral years ago. He said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is of course you don't want to do this. Thank you to Jim Shapiro, whose most recent book is called Contested Will. I'm going to resign.". And not just 'cause he was vain, which everyone agrees he was, but because he loves his country. We will begin with this test. To him, he seemed calm and I left, and went home. The subjects range in occupation from corporation presidents to good [inaudible 00:12:29] and plumbers. She was good to- she was good to me. But if you put two experimenters in the room and-. Making him the most prolific serial killer in American history. Like, he didn't intend for that to happen. It has enough, what they used to call then solar energy. "You know, you're not the first person that's ever done this.". You could say people were bat (beep) crazy. Sap in the next room just because they were being told to? The Bad Show. [inaudible 00:59:10] I went back one time before and [inaudible 00:59:13] that I Like I said, I got to give it out, can't keep holding it in. Well what is something's happened, the man had an attack or something there? Yeah. She was actually, uh, sort of a genius herself. Well I can use that same process-. That's Stanley Milgram talking about the experiment in a film. So, who is- who is this guy right here? We just got to get ov- get out of it where-. And you find yourself in a situation where you've got to do something that's hard. Now, that right there, slap some quotations around that. So, right around 1900. And he spends five years and a futile effort-, Sounds insane. But every time the experimenter pulled out the fourth prod, and this was confirmed when the experiment was redone in 2006, total disobedience. Hey, it's Fred Kaufman, I'm calling to read the credits; here we go. Thanks also to reporter Aaron Scott for that story. They've got a very plausible, very credible, high status scientist at high status scientific institution. Nice job? "The experiment requires that you continue.". He ultimately spent 17 years searching for this man. 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. It's absolutely essential that you continue. I just needed to kill her." We were just enacting an old, very famous experiment that you may have heard about. What follows is this ongoing conversation between Job and his friends about why does this happen? Any idea what the hell he was intending? radiolab-archive. I- I know it was more than [inaudible 00:59:44]. Reviews . And, you know, my view about human nature is that it affords infinite potential for lightness and dark. I have a choice, I'm not going to go ahead with it. Just give me your finger, [crosstalk 00:09:28] I'm going to-. 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. Mm-hmm (affirmative), Mm-hmm (affirmative). "I need to kill because of that." All right. The most common source of nitrogen is in the air around us. And he says, "Because of the rage." Right. Hi, this is Lauren from Winnipeg. He could have never imagined that. "Well why can't you deal with it in a normal way?". But he does it with a kind of, uh, amoral athleticism. ", "We'll basically bring it to the front and when the- when the wind is right, we'll just spray it.". So, Jeff wrote this book because his father, Tom Jensen, was one of the lead detectives tracking Gary Ridgeway. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. The- the last time she- she was in a hurry. That I remember picking her up and-. And to bring a few other of our storytellers in. Do we know? How many times would they shock that sad-. In graphic detail. Yes, I did mean to kill. This is a 20 year old female. in the next room just because they're being told to. Gary starts going through this narrative of what he did to Carol. When you needed to stop for breath, your hand ran light and steady. Suddenly I'm thinking this is actually a darker interpretation-. Hey, I'm Jad Abumrad. And in the other room, there was a guy, who he called the learner, who was supposed to have memorized some words. And you know there's nothing a closet full of clothes to help balance that out. Uh, we ask "Who did you think about killing?" And then, realized that he had to leave the house or he was going to do damage to her. And actually, this wasn't just the German thing. 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. Episode Discussion: The Bad Show. 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. After all, he knows what he can stand. He's chomping on a Virginian cigar. That afternoon, he gets in his car, goes home, he finds my mom on the deck, sits down next to her. ", Meanwhile, later that night on the other side of town-. And he says, "Can I come over and sleep on your couch? Been through this a lot of times before, and she's already told you she's in a hurry. And they're both secularized Jews. All right, so I'm going to talk to you over this intercom, okay? You've touched me. They will spare his son if he fessed up and tells them what they need to know. Okay. I'm not going to give you- I'm- I'm not going to help restore the sense that there is a moral order to the world and a moral norm. Yeah, but those are fantasies, they're some of them actually seem like-, Okay, this is a 20 year old female. Because Haber figured out a way to take nitrogen from the air, put it into the barren ground and grew wheat. Yellow mucus was frothing out of their mouth, those who could still breathe would turn blue. The same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. Search metadata Search text contents Search TV news captions Search radio transcripts Search archived web sites Advanced Search. And I think what we want out of the why is meaning. Well he started fuming that his wife had dissed him, and-. They were gagging, they were choking. The participants, you know, they're not- it's not- it's not just blind obedience. But what's clear is that he saw no reason to question what he had done and that infuriated Clara. Obviously no need to be alarmed. Hundreds of them were falling to the ground. Yeah. You can see this in the surveys that the men filled out after the experiments were over. "When I picked them up I was going to kill them." 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. My point is sometimes when we ask the why in the face of profound evil, I kind of wonder if what we're doing is that we're daring God to show himself. Even past when they were screaming in pain. In the other room, there was a guy who he called the learner who is supposed to have memorized some words. 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. Now the volunteer couldn't see the guy he was shocking, but he'd definitely hear him. 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. Everybody was desperate for sources, new sources of nitrogen. Fast forward 10 years. In fact we hate being told. ", Um, but Haber just kind of ignored her and-, He actually threw a dinner party in celebration-. Do you leave this experiment in a light mood or in a dark mood? The Green River murders terrorized Seattle in the 1980s. Let's begin with this story from our producer, Pat Walters. In front of this really impressive looking machine. Even when their sorrows almost were forgot, and on their skins is on the bark of trees, have written my life with my knife carved in Roman letters. Let me- let me jump just, uh, a quote in front of me. And what he means is that when nitrogen atoms are just free floating in the air, they will cling to each other. You're telling us all this. Really, that story has been told a million and one times for the last 50 years. Chimps. 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. Like, saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy.". Enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. 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 to approach it with kind of crazy joy, I don't know. Our thanks to Ben Walker, whose podcast he has a podcast and it's a good one. What makes a bad person so bad that he's different from the rest of us? Leaving a son, a- a- alone with his dead mother. Of course nobody wants to be killing other people. No motives. The son, eventually, after he emigrates to America kills himself. So, Sam what happened to this guy after World War I? Hmm. Maybe it's all about doubt in the end. I'm almost done, guys. And then, Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering her with a pillow. And a mysterious past. Under extreme, extreme pressure at high temperature, and then he forces hydrogen into the tank. "Oh, you tell me sir, yes sir, no sir, three bags full, sir.". It has enough what they used to call then solar energy. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. The reason why he's telling all this stuff is because he has cut a deal. And "Because women have stepped on me all my life." Fritz Haber's a professor, small university. He had snapped. "Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" ", Only 10 percent, under those circumstances, go on. They're trying to do the right thing. You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry? This is actually mean to be bad anyways. Even now. I think I call it [prince-nez 00:28:23], so I'm not sure. Yeah. Gary is dancing around this topic, Gary had denied this to his own lawyers. Or does everybody at some point have something dark in them? Natural deposits would be like seaweed or-, Actually two nations in South America went to war-. It is still trotted out to explain everything from hazing to war crimes. 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