There's something deeply, deeply wounding, stressing, upsetting a thought that he had anything to do with Zyklon B, but he did. 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?" And Haber has an idea. When you call someone, "Evil." Radiolab is a radio program produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, and broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. He could do anything. I thought about grabbing a knife quickly and stabbing him in the chest repeatedly until he was dead. Just to put that into context and to bring a few other of our storytellers in. Support Radiolab today atRadiolab.org/donate. I don't know, I can't help but feel bad for the guy. But we will do it on our own if we think it's good.". 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. They're, supposedly, chums but General Othello has no idea that that Iago-. The reason why he's telling all this stuff is because he has cut a deal. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. And 91 percent of the men said, "Yes." 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. [crosstalk 00:17:42], It's the experimenter-. Necrophilia. David had always known this guy to be pretty mild mannered. You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry? There's trench warfare. He's bad. Well I can use that same process-. 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. And so, Satan basically systematically destroys Job's life, takes away his wife, his children, all his material possessions. He's such a puzzle to me. And the, uh, really, really bad that is in, uh, some of us. Go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook. In December of 2001, my father and his colleagues-. 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. To find page after page of yeses. Let me just get that out. So, I broke up with him. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. 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. And he ran them through something like what you and I just did. We asked, "Who do you think about killing?" James Shapiro, Professor of English at Columbia University. Thank you Ben. Then he goes and, you know, and celebrates that. Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Gun Show 69:05 : Feb 23, 2018: The Curious Case of the Russian Flash Mob at the West Palm Beach Cheesecake Factory 00:00:00 : Feb 19, 2018: Smarty Plants 34:54 : Feb 13, 2018: Ghosts of Football Past 36:40 : Feb 3, 2018: Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - One Nation, Under Money 55:04 : Jan 31, 2018 Ear drums, God. Haber starts thinking, "In order to do this we need to pressure this, we need to put it under a lot of pressure.". Is that how you say that? Under extreme, extreme pressure at high temperature, and then he forces hydrogen into the tank. You know what's going to happen if she pisses you off. What you know, you know.". He has such great faith in me." I can't quite place him. Let's go into our instructions. Nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and proteins. Every time that guy got the word wrong. They reach back to the shelf and they find this zyklon stuff. You went through this a lot of times before and she's already told you she's in a hurry. 10s, 10, 15, 20 times. Equal Housing lender licensed in all 50 states. I don't know, I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed, I-. It is a fair question to ask what are the conditions under which you or me or any of us could do-. And then she said, "I actually did this. Natural deposits would be like seaweed or-, You know, you could find it in cow manure or-. Yeah. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. in this episode we begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. Yet you go into this anyway, knowing full well that it could-, "That is true. Our fact checker's Michelle Harris because facts matter. And then Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering hew with a pillow. What you know-". He takes command of them partially, he travels to the front. According to James, he's not the baddest in Shakespeare or in life because ultimately the play offers up a reason for his nastiness. Our frenemy, uh, Fritz Haber. But in all of these other scenarios, they don't. 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." And the number of chemical reactions. So, go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30 day trial and a few audiobook. Mm-hmm (affirmative), Mm-hmm (affirmative). Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. They're engaged with the task. 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. So, you ask like, why do people do bad things? 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. You can be sure of your purchase with Casper's 100 night risk-free sleep on it trial. And what makes a bad person so bad that he's different from the rest of us? That is if you don't continue, we're going to have to discontinue the experiment. And so when I went to the party, the party was already in full swing when I got there. Investigating a strange world. The authoritative record of New York Public Radios programming is the audio record. Okay? Podcasts; . And what he means is that when nitrogen atoms are just free floating in the air, they will cling to each other. And-. Thanks. But over the entire ocean, there's a lot of gold dissolved into the sea. Well, he started- he started fuming that his wife had- had dissed him. That allows an individual to act inhumanely? What makes a bad person so bad that he's different from the rest of us? I'll give you bad. So I'm just going to go into this other room over here. He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. 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. "This was exactly what was in my mind. 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. In the best of your memory, which word was matched with nice? Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. Imagine how it feels to have an award-winning team by your side through the mortgage process. Now, Haber was Jewish, but because he had served in World War I-. And the rough statistics are that half of each of our bodies contains nitrogen from the Haber process. It has enough, what they used to call then solar energy. comment. If those two participants refused to go on. But the generals were not all that convinced. And he was someone who had very big ambitions. I mean-. She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in her country. I- horrified is- I was- I was pretty stunned. But in a us sort of way. He says, "Well, we can drive those enemy soldiers out of trenches with gas.". Eugene [inaudible 01:07:32], Sierra Hahn, and everyone in the manuscript and archives department at the Yale University Library. Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves and set them upright at their dear friend's door. Anytime the experimenter said, "You must continue." But the weird thing is that he decides not just to take down Othello, but everybody. Outside of WNYC, I think This American Life does as well, and I know enthusiastic fans transcribed Serial.. They were gagging, they were choking. So, right around 1900. Now, we don't actually know if he threw a party. 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. But that's just a- those are fantasies. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). Podcast Transcripts of Radiolab Radiolab Society & Culture Science Latest Transcripts What Up Holmes? And, uh, I heard about him from science writer Sam Keen. And as soon as it did, soldiers began to convulse. But if looked at from another perspective, there's a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. And invited me over. We're close to some really fundamental truths about human nature. I mean, you have to remember, during the- during the Crimean War in the 1850s, Europe starves. Yeah, me too. But he does it with a kind of, uh, amoral athleticism. Although, clearly, on some level they know it isn't. Like shocking an innocent stranger over and over. even past when they were screaming in pain. Uh, and he finds her actually still alive with her life running out of her. But 75% of the people who worked for him at the institute, they were Jewish. Does everybody, at some point, have something dark in them that just tiptoes out, from time to time? "Demand me nothing, what you know-, From this time forth, I never will speak word." Which is a fairly small-ish sort of town, and so does Clara. Were you a little bit, like, horrified? These little nitrogen atoms will fiercely hold together and it's almost impossible to pry them apart. We'll be right back to Haber, but wait- wait. Even when they go along with the experiment-. I'm going to take a break. And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, have with my knife carved in Roman letters, 'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'". It comes to us from our reporter, Aaron Scott. ", 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. How many times would they shock that sad-. 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. How many of them went into that kind of detail? Terms and conditions apply. Sort of unsportsmanlike. And I heard about him from science writer, Sam Kean. And to make the problem even more annoying. We begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. When I stand before you, judges of Israel, in this court to accuse Adolf Eichmann. And then he seemed fine. I-. He would deny things, he would obscure, he would dance around things. She was good to- she was good to me. When I said, "Goodbye." So, these are some word pairs. He is- he wants to feed- he wants to feed Germany. He refuses what we fully expect and what everybody on stage at that moment fully expects from him. Right now get $50 towards select mattresses by visiting casper.com/radiolab and using Code Radiolab at checkout. They couldn't deploy it. So, the subject seemed willing to shock another human being, but as soon as you say it's an order. A liquid. You're not the first one. And even when they do say yes, even when they go along with the experiment, as you can see in the film. But if you think that's the right thing. 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. This is basically what Stanley Milgram set out to test. All right. I've just got the, uh, the data from the Milgram. The killer seemed to have placed the bodies as if they were mannequins. God, I feel like we haven't, you and I sat together and said our names in quite some time. And he ran them through something like what you and I just did. Humans. It's very important because if you ask university undergraduates what does the Milgram study show, they will invariably say something like "They show that people obey orders" okay? But what's clear is that he saw no reason to question what he had done and that infuriated Clara. Well if the idea is that people will do bad if they think it's good, if it's a good noble cause. This is what totally pulled me into this story, the prods. Fast forward 10 years. And then, he just trails off. Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. Yeah. So if you have kids in the room, maybe this is a time to tell them to go brush their teeth or something. And, you know, it's a craft, but it's a craft with consequences. All right. In other words, nitrogen has really strong attachments to itself. So, he plans to destroy Othello. Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We want what Elizabethan's got at the scaffold, which was a confession. And this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". Accuracy and availability may vary. All rights reserved. My name's Benjamin Walker and here are some Radiolab credit. He would change where the shocker and the shockee sat. Push button, get mortgage. Go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30-day trial and a few audiobook. And give up the few details that they really needed to link him, certifiably, to all these crimes. It's 0924 hours on June 17th, year 2003. The expectation is somebody is made to make his peace with his maker before he dies. Here it goes. And this is was the difference between Kaiser Wilhelm and, of course, Hitler's Germany. They brought in psychiatrists and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. So, he starts experimenting. So there's a way in which there's a touch of spark of humanity. 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. They spent the next six months interrogating him. He could have never imagined that. But as the play goes on, you begin to think that maybe that's just another lie. Then suddenly the thought occurred to me that my life would be much happier without him in existence.". Fritz Haber's a professor, small university, he's working with chemicals; it's about 1880. Very distinctive looking man. It immediately became apparent that there was going to be difficulties. What follows is this ongoing conversation between Job and his friends about why does this happen? Alex Haslem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. You're bad. We want what Elizabethans got at the scaffold, which was a confession. 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