No one has ever said about a sex tape that I've ever, so no. WNYC's Radiolab The Good Show Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich Jan. 01, 2012 The standard view of evolution is that living things are shaped by cold-hearted competition. She was good to- she was good to me. And then, the final one. And on June 13, 2003, Gary was secretly taken out of his jail cell, and brought to a sort of very nondescript, concrete, ugly office building. Go. 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. You can find out more information about all those guys on our website. I liked her. When we asked how close she came to killing him, she estimated 60 percent. And he said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is Of course, you don't want to do this. Cruelty, violence, badness. I'll go along with this.". So, during World War I Haber's institute had developed a formulation of, um, insect killing gas called zyklon. The Blank Slate follows one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind as he explores the idea of human nature and its moral emotional and political coverings. This is just somebody who's performing brain surgery without anesthesia on other people. They spent the next six months interrogating him, they brought in psychiatrists, and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. September 15, 2022 Radiolab for Kids and WNYC Studios present Terrestrials, a six-episode miniseries hosted by Lulu Miller (co-host of Radiolab . Visit our website. "This was exactly what was in my mind. "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age. Hey, I'm Jad Abumrad. Well, we'll have to discontinue the experiment then. And he says, "Can I come over and sleep on your couch? You're bad." And isn't this a good thing that we have people in our society who are willing to make sacrifices for a greater- the greater good? His calculations showed that it couldn't be done. And one evening they were throwing a- a party. And my father was recruited to the task force. 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. Now that's important. Now, why don't you just- what do you remember since we last talked in this interview? Outside of WNYC, I think This American Life does as well, and I know enthusiastic fans transcribed Serial.. And he says, "Because of the rage." Yes, I did mean to kill. Thanks. I'm about to help this quest for knowledge, I really want to do a good job.". Of course, nobody wants to be killing other people; we realize this is hard work. Dan doesn't think so, but what's clear is that he saw no reason to question what he had done and that infuriated Clara. He goes straight to the German [inaudible 00:36:56] and- and he pitches this idea. And he was someone who had very big ambitions. He knew about it. Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camps? "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" And we didn't really come to any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. Imagine how it feels to have an award-winning team by your side through the mortgage process. A box of ashes. The fact that he kept on doing it over and over and over again was like, "Come on.". Hmm. And that was a question that had haunted my father for decades. And one of the first acts that the Nazis do is to basically issue an order that says there shall be no Jews in the civil service. Listen Infective Heredity. In Shakespeare, or life. Just because of a mathematical summing up. And you have a number of chemical reactions. And in the trial, when the prosecutors, essentially, ask him how you came to commit genocide he would say, over and over again-. And they're behind the German lines is-. The questionnaires they filled out are part of the Milgram archive at Yale. Really, that story's been told a million and one times for the last 50 years, we've just got to get over it. I think I call it [prince-nez 00:28:23], so I'm not sure. You're going to keep giving him what, 450 volts every shot now? The killer seemed to have placed the bodies as if they were mannequins. It has enough, what they used to call then solar energy. His health is failing in 1934. One that applies smart technologies at scale with purpose and expertise; not just for some, but for all. Our staff includes Simon Adler, Maggie Bartholomew, Becca Bressler, Rachael Cusick, David Gebel, Ethel Hepti, Tracy Hunt, Matt Kielty, the lovely Robert Krulwich, Annie McEwen, Latif Nassar, Malissa O'Donnell, Adrian Wack, Pat Walters, and Molly Webster. They start disagreeing with each other, and this one you get zero percent going all the way. Or does everybody at some point have something dark in them? I'm not going to help restore the sense that there is a moral order to the world and a moral norm. And a mysterious past. That afternoon, he gets in his car, goes home, he finds my mom on the deck, sits down next to her. And so, Gary starts going through this narrative of what he did to Carol. And he goes home for a few days. I mean, I'm going to record it here too. And they would circle yes or no. Thank you to James Shapiro whose most recent book is called Contested Will. Uh, and he finds her actually still alive with her life running out of her. 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. But there's been a fellow, I've been thinking about him for the better part of year, as you know-. All rights reserved. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). ", Now, Haber was Jewish, but because he'd served in World War I-, But 75 percent of the people who worked for him at the institute, they were Jewish-, And says, "This is intolerable. Let not your sorrows die though I am dead. I actually did the first thing, but he saw my intentions and ran away." This is just a tsunami of evil that passes through the play. WNYC is America's most listened-to public radio station and the producer of award-winning programs and podcasts like Radiolab, On the Media, and The Brian Lehrer Show. So, who is- who is this guy right here? But the guy is cut to shreds, he's allowed to confess. 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. The same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. He could have never imagined that. That allows an individual to act inhumanely-, It's like a downloadable from the internet; instant defense for doing wrong. Haber finds himself in a little town in Belgium called-. But it wasn't until a few years later that he learned something that really put what happened that night into context. 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. You know what's going to happen if she [inaudible 01:02:25]. You've touched me. Wow. Like, "Oh my God. There's a pause and my father just says-. That's Stanley Milgram talking about the experiment in a film in case you've never heard of this. So, you see, it's just in that one experiment that 65% of people are willing to go all the way. So, I heard this one from this guy named David-. He just kind of went crazy. That guy yelling of course was an actor and the shocks weren't real, but the questions in the air at the time were very real. On the other hand, I mean, if you look at the grand calculus, people he's helped or fed, versus people he's killed, I mean he's fed billions of people. In fact we hate being told. And Christensen, I dated her several times bef- three times- two times before. 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? I just needed to kill because of that. Thanks to all our great storytellers, Dan Charles, Sam Kean, Latif Nassar, Fred Kaufman, and Fritz Stern. This is Radiolab, and today we're going to get back, so to speak. I can't quite place him. Sounds insane. And in the other room, there was a guy, who he called the learner, who was supposed to have memorized some words. Yeah, I agree with that. You're bad. The expectation is somebody is made to make his peace with his maker before he dies. You know, I'm really proud of Job. I- I know it was more than [inaudible 00:59:44]. So, he plans to destroy Othello. Well, you know, you can see that's a good thing. However, that leaves behind 20 million Germans. They brought in psychiatrists and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. He figures out a way to take a lot of air that's filled with these little nitrogen bonds clinging to each other, and pump it with big iron tank. He is- he wants to feed- he wants to feed Germany. He did this experiment a bunch of times, and in a bunch of different ways. The use of it, he couldn't have imagined. It's about how far would these people go. The leaves would just sort of shrivel, and the grass was turning to the color of metal. My students are murderers.". Accuracy and availability may vary. Y-P-R-E-S, Actually the Americans called it [inaudible 00:36:42]. And, you know, it's a craft, but it's a craft with consequences. Hmm. Would you really think that this guy's a good guy? Only 10% under those circumstances go on. There's trench warfare, it gets bogged down and Haber has an idea. And why I cared for her because I dated her before, but this day didn't turn out right. And 84% of the women. And he goes home for a few days a hero. [crosstalk 00:17:42], It's the experimenter-. Now what you need to understand about Alex Haslem is that he hates it when interviewers only want to talk about the baseline study. Today's date Is June 17, 2003. On the other hand, if anyone can do it-. Why did you take these women off the streets and wanted to destroy them? But the generals were not all that convinced? So he sends a letter to the Ministry of Education resigning, and he leaves Germany. She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in her country. He figured maybe 1% of these men would keep flicking these switches up to the highest voltage, but that's not what he found. She was actually a sort of a genius herself. This is a 20 year old female. Do we know? And then she said, "I actually did this. with Lulu Miller, and Latif Nasser. Then he left some space at the bottom for them to elaborate if they said yes. I got to tell you, um, I'm not totally comfortable that you are providing all the information about-. Was he trying to make a commentary, and so was he grappling with something? Also from, uh, a Jewish family. So then Hey wait, I'm almost done guys, give me two more minutes, two more minutes. So read these words that you see here. And I heard about him from science writer, Sam Kean. The reason why he's telling all this stuff is because he has cut a deal. And it's this defense. Which is a fairly small-ish sort of town, and so does Clara. Yep, women participants, he had an experimenter who wasn't a scientist, but was a member of the general public. In front of this really impressive looking machine. It was- it was a warning smell so that people didn't inadvertently breathe it in and get sick. And, uh, she had got a disgusted look on her face and said that he was up in the bedroom. But that's not what he found. In- in other words, nitrogen has really strong attachments to itself. Like, you know, "Who are you?". The expectation is somebody is made to make his peace with his maker before he dies; that's what you do. And there is no doubt that today's plants and animals carry the genetic legacy of ancestors who fought fiercely to survive and reproduce. [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. The good Iago who makes you want to shower the minute you leave the theater 'cause you are sullied by him. It immediately became apparent that there was going to be difficulties. And if they didn't go on, if they resisted, the experimenter would break out prod number two. And once again, another nitrogen compound. We decided to shake things up at the show.bear with us. Okay? An experiment is being conducted in the elegant interaction laboratory at Yale University. Sixty-five percent-, To shock their fellow citizens, over and over again-. Wore a little, um, uh, pince-nez? Very distinctive looking man, bald on top, trim nice mustache, wore a little [pince-nez 00:28:20]. When you press one of the switches, all the way down, the learner gets a shock. Was it nice day, nice sky, nice job, or nice chair? And 91% of the men said yes. 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. The whole thing happened several years ago. Reviews . Now, as we sort of know in life, lots of things that we if they're worthwhile doing, they're not always easy. This is Radiolab and today talking about? And you find yourself in a situation where you've got to do something that's hard. Just to put that into context and to bring a few other of our storytellers in. You wouldn't though, would you really? 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. So you're saying they were shocking these people because they thought it was worthwhile? You walk into the room, what do you find? And says, "This is intolerable. So, at a time when there are people all over our country eyeing other people all over the country and thinking, "She's bad. They're supposedly chums, but General Othello has no idea that Iago-. This is Radiolab and today we're going to get bad. Um, with a black belt in karate. So in the end, where do you come down? His was the first generation when a young Jewish boy could truly imagine that he could just be a regular part of that society. I mean, that was make believe. Unusually so in those times. This story made us wonder, "Is David's friend-". He refuses what we fully expect and what everybody on stage at that moment fully expects from him. In other words, nitrogen has really strong attachments to itself. You know, you're not the first person that's ever done this. Right now get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/radiolab and using Code Radiolab at checkout. God, I feel like we haven't, you and I sat together and said our names in quite some time. Now we're seeing about 100 million tons of synthetic fertilizer produced industrially each year. I have a choice, I'm not going to go ahead with it. Radiolab: Lucy. Don't you think you should look in on him, please? Check out the Blank Slate, a book by Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind. I'm Robert Krulwich. But if they were prepared to do that, and I suspect a lot of them would, um, then we'd say these are people who really believe in science. Hmm. They continued shocking their corpses. It's a graphic or an illustrated novel. That's where they're heading towards. But there's a fellow. That afternoon, he gets in his car, goes home, he finds my mom on the deck, sits down next to her. And it becomes Zyklon B, the killing gas of the concentration camps. Transcript. And on June 13th, 2003, Gary was secretly taken out of his jail cell and brought to this sort of very nondescript concrete ugly office building and, um, over the next six months from June to early December. Continuing using the last switch on the board please. I'm going to take a break. Is an absolute order. When I stand before you, judges of Israel, in this court [Foreign 00:12:14] to accuse Adolf Eichmann [Foreign 00:12:18], I do not stand alone. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). In that, "Why?" I don't know, I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed, I-. So, it's very-. These are- these are people who are incredibly noble. Then suddenly the thought occurred to me that my life would be much happier without him in existence.". Yeah let's . We just need a whole lot more of one simple element. That's radio producer Ben Walker, he'll be our guide for this segment. Despite the chlorine gas, he didn't intend for that to happen. That's historian Fritz Stern who also happens to be Fritz Haber's godson. Live shows were first offered in 2008. Any idea what the hell he was intending? Like, you walked into the room, what- what do you find? I mean, yes, I did lie about that. So, he starts experimenting. Well, all right. So, go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30 day trial and a few audiobook. At high temperature. And he hasn't talked about it with anyone until I interviewed him for the book. So Stanley Milgram actually begins these experiments-. 1933 comes. So, basically at 6:00 pm at April 22nd. Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" So every day, they would bring them into this conference room-, This is a continuation of an interview with Gary Leon Ridgeway-. 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. He said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is of course you don't want to do this. In the other room, there was a guy who he called the learner who is supposed to have memorized some words. But he organizes soldiers, he organizes whole gas units. Anytime the experimenter said, "You must continue." Yeah, I agree with that. Clara comes from the same town. So he plans to destroy Othello. "The experiment requires that you continue.". Yet you go into this [inaudible 01:02:33] knowing full well that it could end up in her death. These are people who are incredibly noble, they are. And so, uh, when I went to the party, the party was already in full swing when I got there. Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. They will spare his son if he fesses up and- and tells them what they need to know. We'll basically bring it to the front, and when the wind is right, we'll just spray it. And as soon as it did, soldiers began to convulse. But 75% of the people who worked for him at the institute, they were Jewish. Warning. To find page after page of yeses. In case you've never heard of this, probably have, but in case you haven't, here's what he did. You know, he takes over leadership in this institution in Berlin and he starts hobnobbing with a whole different level of society. It's absolutely essential that you continue. You can see this in the surveys that the men filled out after the experiments were over. He would deny things, he would obscure, he would dance around things. He would change where the shocker and the shockee sat. He was doing his great science work right around the turn of the 20th century; so right around 1900. This was one of the bloodiest arenas on the, uh, Western front. Walk- walk away. And as it happens, my father has very vivid memories of investigating the Carol Christensen murder. Up until that point, Gary refused to say that "From the minute I picked these women up I wanted to kill them." He could do anything. When you call someone then you're kind of done with them. Thanks. I invited him for dinner. And then, Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering her with a pillow. Yeah (laughs). And also, thank you to Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. He actually was very humiliated, uh, that Germany had lost. No. I invited him for dinner 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. 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. And one of the first acts that the Nazis do is to-, That says, "There shall be no Jews in the civil service. Look, the participants, it's not just blind obedience, "Oh you tell me so, yes sir, no sir, three bags full, sir.". And-. 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. And if they still were resisting or struggling, they'd get prod number three. Carries electric shocks. And also a scientist. Well, actually the one thing that the study really doesn't show is that people obey orders. "Demand me nothing, what you know-, From this time forth, I never will speak word." 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