Said- said, "Yes, I've thought about killing someone.". And oddly enough, we came- got a really interesting take on the true nature of badness from this guy. 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 a continuation of an interview with Gary Leon Ridgeway. 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. Um, I got a little, uh, I- my- this is my dorsal hair stood up when I read the end of this. And it's moving in about one meter per second. We have nothing. Listen Infective Heredity. Radiolab. It's the experimenter. But what if something's happened to the man. And they're behind the German lines is-. Certainly friends of his did. Like, you can't throw that air onto a plant (laughing). Okay. What he means is that when nitrogen atoms are just free floating in the air, they will cling to each other. Yes 80 percent of the air is nitrogen atoms. They're supposedly chums, but General Othello has no idea that Iago-. Whether it was feeding, or killing, or-, And he does. On the other hand, if anyone can do it-. 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. 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. Natural deposits would be like seaweed or-, Actually two nations in South America went to war-. James Shapiro, professor of English at Columbia University. Suddenly I'm thinking this is actually a darker interpretation. And in the other room, there was a guy, who he called the learner, who was supposed to have memorized some words. All right, so I'm going to talk to you over this intercom, okay? The guy yelling, of course, was an actor, and the shocks weren't real. It's a good one. Sap in the next room just because they were being told to? The time now is 0836 hours. But the guy is cut to shreds, he's allowed to confess. He brings her up as an example of a- of a woman that he actually had strong feelings for. Why did you take these women off the streets and wanted to destroy them? Now the volunteer couldn't see the guy he was shocking, but he could definitely hear him. He was t- very aggressive. Support Radiolab today atRadiolab.org/donate. You mean they're looking at 20 million people hungry? ", "We'll basically bring it to the front and when the- when the wind is right, we'll just spray it.". This hour we take a look at what happens when we all try to live together. But 75% of the people who worked for him at the institute, they were Jewish. He works for a general. And you know what? Okay, we're going off tape now. And Haber has an idea. 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. And that was a question that had haunted my father for decades. I'm not saying a word. Okay. He is a soldier. It immediately became apparent that there was going to be difficulties. Yeah, me too. ", And the class ended, and I went back to my office, and I just sat at my desk, and I started reading these. And the infinity of gray spaces in between. How do you tell the real baddies from the rest of us? If the experiment- if the experiment had to be successful, it had to be carried on.". It is still trotted out to explain everything from hazing to war crimes. And as it happens, my father has very vivid memories of investigating the Carol Christensen murder. His wife, um, went into hiding. These little nitrogen atoms will fiercely hold together, and it's almost impossible to pry them apart. Hi, my name is Josh, and I'm calling from Harlem, New York. And then, the final one. And I designed a little questionnaire where I simply asked the students, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" Imagine they really were had to administer shocks to themselves or something. He refuses what we fully expect and what everybody on stage at that moment fully expects from him. Let's expect more from technology, let's put smart to work, visit ibm.com/smart to learn more. He says, "Well, we can drive those enemy soldiers out of trenches with gas. Because if you ask university undergraduates, "What does the Milgram studies show?" Now we don't actually know if he threw a party. There are hints of reasons. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. He would deny things, he would obscure, he would dance around things. Telling a friend he felt like he'd lost his homeland. 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 to a big iron tank. So, he decided he was going to invent a process to pay for these reparations by himself and what he decided to do is go into the ocean, into seawater, which contains, um, uh, some very small levels of gold. And they're both secularized Jews. That's what's horrifying about it, but imagine they were administering pain to themselves. Haber finds himself in a little town in Belgium called Yp-. Well, all right. I'm going to resign.". This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12, by 2050. Now there's a footnote to this that is very strange. 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. Like, you know, "Who are you?". He takes over leadership of this institute in Berlin, and he starts hobnobbing with a whole different level of society. I got it in front of me, I've just got the data from the Milgram study. Why does God allow this to happen? It was a warning smell so that people didn't inadvertently breathe it in and get sick. He stirs up hatred between friends, between lovers. Well, I'd have to discontinue the experimenter then. You're going to keep giving him what, 450 volts every shot now? And, "Well why the rage?" According to James, he is not the baddest-. My dad said, "I don't want to talk about it." Robert, I'm going to give you this piece of paper here. So wait. He gets promoted to the rank of Captain. Of course nobody wants to be killing other people. When I stand before you, judges of Israel, in this court to accuse Adolf Eichmann. Alex Haslem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. Yes, and he did too. I'll go along with this.". Imagine they really had to administer shocks to themselves or something. He won't answer. Yeah, well. I think what it's doing is, uh, if you breathe 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 drown in your own phlegm. And later that night, after party, Haber takes a bunch of sleeping pills, goes to sleep. No one has a monopoly on bad. And-. And that's what Shakespeare did in all his plays. A lot of them are really positive even though they've just been told that they were duped. Three, two, one. So, go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30 day trial and a few audiobook. Speaking with Carol's mom, Carol's little daughter-, Killed her. This is Jeff Jensen, and he's a reporter in LA. 'cause actually he studied between 20 and 40 different variants of this same paradigm. In December of 2001, my father and his colleagues-. And also a scientist. Visit casper.com/radiolab and use code radiolab and check out to get $50 towards select mattresses. 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. Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camps? And the way I killed her, I cared for her because I dated her for [inaudible 01:01:43]. Radiolab for Kids Presents: Terrestrials A show where we uncover the strangeness right here on Earth Romeo y Julieta A World Premiere Bilingual Audio Play. And a mysterious past. ", 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. He's bad. What does he say? So my father and the other interviewer in that room that morning, Detective John [Matsen 00:58:19], they start using a line, a tact of interviewing that was very. This story made us wonder, "Is David's friend-". Do we know? Quite literally. My name's Benjamin Walker and here are some RadioLab credits. And he says that's what people wanted. Birds would just fall from the air. And he believed it. You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry? Become A Member. They're not doing something because they have to, they're doing it because they think they ought to. Now, Haber was Jewish, but because he had served in World War I-. And even though, in the end, they got him to confess to these 49 murders, they never really get any closer to an answer than this first one. No. Was it nice day? So, he ends up admitting it. This is a 20 year old female. They spent the next six months interrogating him. We begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. Fact is if you don't continue, uh, we're going to discontinue the experiment. I'm not going to go ahead with it. And then he starts this period of roaming. But even with all that gore and horribleness, there was often a moment that people waited for. Stanley Milgram had four scripted prods that he wrote out for his experimenters. You know, "I just want to kill her. Cruelty, violence, badness. With all of the black-and-white moralizing in our world today, we decided to bring back an old show about the little bit of bad that's in all of us.and the little bit of really, really bad that's in some of us. On the other hand, if anyone could do it-. And that we're not going to be shocked with anything-. He travels to the front. It is- it is arguably the most significant scientific breakthrough of them all. She just burst my eardrums (laughs). Mm-hmm (affirmative). Robert Krulwich: Uh, wait. And you got to ask is the world better with him or without him? [inaudible 00:59:42] Christensen. Well, he started- he started fuming that his wife had- had dissed him. And he did too. If it doesn't show that people are just obeying orders-, All right, let's go on to our instructions. The most common source of nitrogen is in the air around us. And did you go back to the party then and continued dinner partying for a while? And my dad said, "I don't want to talk about it." So he starts experimenting. Let's just finish this. And then she said, "I actually did this. And shortly after his return, Clara allegedly confronts him and says, "Look, you are morally bankrupt. 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. Or does everybody at some point have something dark in them? Radiolab is supported by Audible. God, 'cause it's like we started with this experiment that we all see as evidence of human's latent capacity of evil. I dated her several times a year. And he said, "To start, you want to know about bad? So, Jeff wrote this book because his father, Tom Jensen, was one of the lead detectives tracking Gary Ridgeway. Then suddenly the thought occurred to me that my life would be much happier without him in existence.". You know, you're not the first person that's ever done this. When we asked how close she came to killing him, she estimated 60 percent. No. Go on please. And not just yeses. He's standing there on the front pushing the gas into the lungs of other human beings. 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. She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in her country. 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 if you think that's the right thing. Jul 28, 2018 Does everybody, at some point, have something dark in them that just tiptoes out, from time to time? 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. Sounds insane. Suddenly I'm thinking this is actually a darker interpretation-. And what is basically like the Baghdad of his time. And you find yourself in a situation where you've got to do something that's hard. ", Meanwhile, later that night on the other side of town-. But what you're doing is for the good of Germany, and this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". All right, just to back up for one second. Probably have, but in case you haven't. And not to everybody's taste. One of the reasons it grows is because it's sucking up all the nitrogen in the soil. 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. It's like a downloadable from the internet instant defense for doing wrong, but if you look at Milgram's work closely. Thousands of people have done it before you. When Lucy was only two days old she was adopted by a psychologist and his wife who wondered: if given the right environment, how human could Lucy . 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