Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. He's standing there on the front, pushing the gas into the lungs of other human beings, admittedly, it's a ware, but still. No motives. no one has ever said about a sex tape that I've ever you know. And then, he seemed fine when I said goodbye to him. Now what you need to understand about Alex Haslam is that he hates it when interviewers only want to talk about the baseline study. He actually was very humiliated, uh, that Germany had lost. ", Yes I did need to kill. He eventually goes to England. He had an experimenter who wasn't a scientist, but was a member of the general public. According to James, he's not the baddest in Shakespeare or in life because ultimately the play offers up a reason for his nastiness. They will invariably say something like, "They show that people obey orders." Although, clearly, on some level they know it isn't. Yeah, I agree with that. And when you stick a seed like weed seed in the ground-. He just kind of went crazy. The Bad Show Publication date Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000 We wrestle with the dark side of human nature, and ask whether it's something we can ever really understand, or fully escape. And- and Iago? And so he says that and you're like, "Okay, yes come over now. They spent the next six months interrogating him. "I just needed to kill because of that." But what you're doing is for the good of Germany, and this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". I left him, went home. Yeah, me too. Finally, acknowledging, yeah, that's true. Probably have, but in case you haven't. We, as- as onlookers to this study, we have this kind of god-like, uh, sort of vision of, like, well of course what they're doing is wrong. So, these are some word pairs. Go. He would obscure. He was trying to repeat this masterstroke. 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. Well, he started- he started fuming that his wife had- had dissed him. And to approach it with kind of crazy joy, I don't know. Outside of WNYC, I think This American Life does as well, and I know enthusiastic fans transcribed Serial.. She says, "What happened today?" They brought in psychiatrists and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. The good Iago who makes you want to shower the minute you leave the theater 'cause you are sullied by him. He started calling me a whore and told me he didn't love me anymore. Gary had denied this to his own lawyers. Fritz Haber's a professor, small university, he's working with chemicals; it's about 1880. You know [crosstalk 00:25:00]. "You know, you're not the first person that's ever done this.". Imagine they really had to administer shocks to themselves or something. The whole thing happened several years ago. The fourth product is-. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. I mean you have to remember, during the Crimean War in the 1850s, Europe starves. Right. 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. Yeah. Been through this a lot of times before, and she's already told you she's in a hurry. Just to put that into context and to bring a few other of our storytellers in. But if you put two experimenters in the room and-. The use of it, he couldn't have imagined. So if you have kids in the room, maybe this is a time to tell them to go brush their teeth or something. And everyone thought, "Well, we know the solution. I liked her. Yeah. This story made us wonder is David's friend, is he unusual? And oddly enough, we got a really interesting take on the true nature of badness from this guy-. There's lots and lots of lessons here, but one is I think when you're enjoying to do something for the greater good, maybe ask yourself the question, "What is greater, and what is good?". That's correct. Listen to free wherever you go to podcast and sign up at openearsproject.org. On the other hand, if anyone could do it-. He was in this, um, uh, uh, state of fury, he said, and, um, and instead of hitting his wife, he smashed his fist into the bathroom mirror. But when he gets there, he has to contend with his wife. Because Haber figured out a way to take nitrogen from the air, put it into the barren ground and grew wheat. On the other hand, if anyone can do it-. All rights reserved. To feed about 30 million people. And in this one you get 0% going all the way. The participants, you know, they're not- it's not- it's not just blind obedience. And I devoted one class session to the topic of homicide and why people kill. Like, how do you tell the real baddies from the rest of us? Our main story is the haunting tale of a chimp named Lucy. Only then does God speak up and kind of say, like, "You're gonna question me?" He's bald. And I devoted one class session to the topic of homicide and why people kill. So there's a way in which there's a touch of spark of humanity. We're close to some really fundamental truths about human nature. But over the entire ocean, there's a lot of gold dissolved into the sea. And Hitler takes over. He would say over and over again. And you like her. Really? This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12, by 2050. So, he ends up admitting it. And shortly after his return, Clara allegedly confronts him and says, "Look, you are morally bankrupt. When you press one of the switches, all the way down, the learner gets a shock. He was doing his great science work right around the turn of the 20th century; so right around 1900. Well I mean, I know it does, sir. Wow. ", "We'll basically bring it to the front and when the- when the wind is right, we'll just spray it.". And it's kind of surprising, a lot of them are really positive, even though they've just been told that they were duped. Sixty-five percent-, To shock their fellow citizens, over and over again-. We will begin with this test. At high temperature. And he believed it. They continued shocking their corpses. So these are some word pairs. There are hints of reasons. He said that if I ever had a relationship with another man, he was going to send videos of us having sex to all the people in my university. In a rage, uh, how? And this particular story, it comes from a book that David wrote. Um, "Demand me nothing. At this point, David's moved onto a new university and he's teaching an introductory psychology class. It's a graphic or an illustrated novel. But there's a fellow. Can you hear me? Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves and set them upright at their dear friend's door. Well he started fuming that his wife had dissed him, and-. James Shapiro, Professor of English at Columbia University. That's what's horrifying about it, but imagine they were administering pain to themselves. To find page after page of yeses. And then, she said, "I actually did this. But if looked at from another perspective, there's a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. So, it's very-. It's called Too Much Information. You can find out more information about all those guys on our website, radiolab.org. But in all of these other scenarios, they don't. And, like, it kind of, like, hurt his feelings. This is, uh, I just want to take a shower. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of. Now, admittedly it's a war, but still. He did this experiment a bunch of times in a bunch of different ways. Go on please. Direct your voice to the microphone in the room. [inaudible 00:06:31], Well not horrified, it was I pretty stunned. And he said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is Of course, you don't want to do this. Um, I got a little, uh, I- my- this is my dorsal hair stood up when I read the end of this. And we didn't really come to any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. Is that how you say that? It's a pretty (bleep) thing to miss, isn't it really? And that's all the difference in the world. That allows an individual to act inhumanely-, It's like a downloadable from the internet; instant defense for doing wrong. And "Well, why the rage?" He's such a puzzle to me. And also a scientist. Okay. God, 'cause it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of human's latent capacity of evil. No, but there's part of me says, "You know, here's a guy who just wanted to do everything better than had ever been done before." Don't- don't the man's health mean anything? Stanley Milgram took electric shock very seriously. We, as onlookers to this study, we have this kind of godlike sort of vision of like, "Well, of course, what they're doing is wrong." When I stand before you, judges of Israel, in this court to accuse Adolf Eichmann. Times. Takes command of them partially. He is a soldier. 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. Right. And maybe forces hydrogen in the tank. ", Yeah, we just need a whole lot more of one simple-. That's what you do. An experiment is being conducted in the elegant interaction laboratory at Yale University. And a mysterious past. Yes. They couldn't deploy it. Visit casper.com/radiolab and use code radiolab and check out to get $50 towards select mattresses. ", And the class ended, and I went back to my office, and I just sat at my desk, and I started reading these. Because it takes such energy and pressure to separate it This trivalent bond is so strong that when it comes back together, that energy that's released, it could be used for life or death. You know, I'm really proud of Job. And she takes a service revolver-. What my father and his colleagues know is that something was done to these bodies; many of them after they were murdered. Up until that point, Gary refused to say that "From the minute I picked these women up I wanted to kill them." He knew about it. 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. 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. 1933 comes. The Green River murders terrorized Seattle in the 1980s. So, I heard this one from this guy named David-. So you ask like, "Why do people do bad things?". A lot of them are like, "This is not how you fight a war.". Zyklon A, which was originally just a pesticide-. And he ran them through something like what you and I just did. David had always known this guy to be pretty mild mannered. He was always smoking his Virginian cigars. Maria Matasar-Padilla is our managing director. By the way, that's reporter [Latif Nassar 00:30:59]. And Satan's like, "Well, I- I bet I can change his mind." James Shapiro, professor of English at Columbia University. As soon as it did, soldiers began to convulse. I thought about grabbing a knife quickly and stabbing him in the chest repeatedly until he was dead. And then she said, "I actually did this. Thank you to James Shapiro whose most recent book is called Contested Will. So wait. This is basically what Stanley Milgram set out to test. Suddenly I'm thinking this is actually a darker interpretation. And my father was recruited to the task force. No 'cause if you couldn't afford a ticket for a play, you'd seen all the plays, in the 1500s you could always go to a public hanging. They were gagging, they were choking; hundreds of them were falling to the ground like-. Um, could you just- just tell me, uh, the little story that you begin your book with? The son, eventually, after he emigrates to America kills himself. And I designed a little questionnaire where I simply asked the students, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" 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. And I think what we want out of the why is meaning. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." But it wasn't until a few years later that he learned something that really put what happened that night into context. They're, supposedly, chums but General Othello has no idea that that Iago-. We decided to shake things up at the show.bear with us. Like, he didn't intend for that to happen. And everyone thought, "Well, we know the solution.". And then, it was several hours later in the middle of the night that I got the call. In the other room, there was a guy who he called the learner who is supposed to have memorized some words. Even past when they were screaming in pain. Walked in and asked his wife where this friend of mine was, and she got a disgusted look on her face, and said that he was up in the bedroom. And not just yeses. The one that everybody knows, the so called baseline. I'm going to resign.". We've got to know now. And oddly enough, we came- got a really interesting take on the true nature of badness from this guy. So, go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30 day trial and a few audiobook. And, you know, my view about human nature is that it affords infinite potential for lightness and dark. 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