But there's been a fellow, I've been thinking about him for the better part of year, as you know-. And, like, it kind of, like, hurt his feelings. Um, although there's some (laughs) [crosstalk 00:02:19]. He would dance around things. As far as I know, I don't know if I did or not. And he wrote this graphic novel that I read about one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history; Gary Leon Ridgeway, the Green River Killer. 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. He has a podcast. Probably have, but in case you haven't. There's a lot of black and white thinking happening right now. To him, he seemed calm and I left, and went home. Do we know? That's what we're heading towards. Well, you know, you can see that's a good thing. That is if you don't continue, we're going to have to discontinue the experiment. I just needed to kill her." We just need a whole lot more of one simple element. [inaudible 01:00:01] is I- I went back one time before [inaudible 01:00:05] that I, uh, like I said, I got to get it out. Right, Clara comes from the same town, and they're both secularized Jews. And it's just sort of approaching. Well what's the noble cause in this case? I have a choice, I'm not going to go ahead with it. A hero. He works for a general. Um, we lived together for a couple months. And everyone thought, "Well, we know the solution.". And they're both secularized Jews. Haber starts thinking, in order to do this we need to, uh, pressure this. Now, admittedly it's a war, but still. He brings her up as an example of a woman that he actually had strong feelings for. And shortly after his return, Clara, allegedly, confronts him and says, "Look, you are morally bankrupt. It was developed in his Institute. And my dad said, "I don't want to talk about it." 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?". It is a, the- the critical- the critical force prod. And so Satan, basically, systematically destroys Job's life. Meaning to life to reveal itself in a way that restores order and gives us hope that all of this isn't just meaningless chaos. The authoritative record of New York Public Radio's programming is the audio record. Which is a fairly small-ish sort of town, and so does Clara. 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. If I don't leave my house right now, I'm going to kill her." But you know, we ended up walking this question around to different people. Fact is if you don't continue, uh, we're going to discontinue the experiment. You better check in on him, sir. The fact that he kept on doing it over, and over, and over again was like, "Come on.". Let's just finish this. Warning. And, you know, my view about human nature is that it affords infinite potential for lightness and dark. So, you don't know. You can see this in the surveys that the men filled out after the experiments were over. But in all of these other scenarios, they don't. Every time that guy got the word wrong. It comes to us from our reporter, Aaron Scott. comment. I-. He even schemes against his own wife. His wife went into hiding. And he was someone who had very big ambitions. Radiolab is supported by Audible. And that was a question that had haunted my father for decades. And when nitrogen and hydrogen bond together, the thing you get-. You know, uh, "I'm going to kill her.". As we continue listening to the Bad Show episode on human nature, our neighbors and ourselves, check out the Blank Slate by Steven Pinker available on Audible. Eventually Iago convinces Othello that his wife has been disloyal; which she hasn't. I left him, went home. Nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and proteins. Fast forward 10 years. Well I can use that same process-. He has such great faith in me." So there's a way in which there's a touch of spark of humanity. James Shapiro, Professor of English at Columbia University. Do you think that more studies of this sort should be carried out?" You know, just because of a mathematical summing up. "The experiment requires that you continue.". The- the leaves would just sort of shrivel and the grass was turning to the color of metal. And if they still were resisting or struggling, they'd get prod number three. It is, arguably, the most significant scientific breakthrough of them all. It's okay to admit this. I don't know, I can't help but feel bad for the guy. But he organizes soldiers, he organizes whole gas units. And he said, "Look, this is what you're going to do is Of course, you don't want to do this. 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. I'll go along with this.". We realize this is hard work, but what you are doing is for the good of Germany. We lived together for a couple months, he was very aggressive, he started calling me a whore, and told me he didn't love me anymore, so I broke up with him. I mean-. I've just got the, uh, the data from the Milgram. Okay? This is basically what Stanley Milgram set out to test. People like director Sam Mendez, musicians Jean Batiste, and Wynton Marsalis, Call Your Girlfriends [inaudible 00:27:12], and our very own Alec Baldwin. The good Iago who makes you want to shower the minute you leave the theater 'cause you are sullied by him. His was the first generation when a young Jewish boy could truly imagine that he could just be a regular part of that society. Was he trying to make a commentary or something? It is still trotted out to explain everything from hazing to war crimes. But in a famous incident, one of England's leading scientists refuses to shake his hand. in what is basically like the Baghdad of his time (laughing). in the next room just because they're being told to. Again, it's a pretty big thing to miss. And then, in experiment number four, when the teacher has to hold the learner's hand down-. And you know what? Let's begin with this story from our producer Pat Walters. You can see this in the surveys that the men filled out after the experiments were over. They were gagging, they were choking; hundreds of them were falling to the ground like-. Yes. Bald on top. And she takes a service revolver-. 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, um, in January of 1984, the Green River task force was formed. We're all great apes. Time's up. What makes boys boys and girls girls. Yet you go into this anyway, knowing full well that it could-, "That is true. Because Haber figured out a way to take nitrogen from the air, put it into the barren ground and grew wheat. It's part mix tape, part sonnet love letter, kind of like a daily musical journey into other human lives. A lot of them are really positive even though they've just been told that they were duped. And when hydrogen and nitrogen bond together, the thing you get-. The good Iagos make you want to shower the minute you leave the theater. Stanley Milgram took electric shock very seriously. By the ocean of breath twice, I remember I carried your oxygen. 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 while David's sitting in the bedroom with this friend, the guy looks up at him and he says-, Like, through his teeth. This is Radiolab, and today we're going to get back, so to speak. And so, 1918 Fritz Haber gets a Nobel Prize, but this is why he's such an interesting guy. He brings her up as an example of a- of a woman that he actually had strong feelings for. I mean you have to remember, during the Crimean War in the 1850s, Europe starves. And "Well, why the rage?" You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry? The story of Job is that one day God and Satan were having a conversation. Even when they go along with the experiment-. That afternoon, he gets in his car, goes home, he finds my mom on the deck, sits down next to her. No. Fritz Haber's a professor, small university. Yeah. So, Jeff wrote this book because his father, Tom Jensen, was one of the lead detectives tracking Gary Ridgeway. ", He actually threw a dinner party in celebration-. I'll give you bad. Making him the most prolific serial killer in American history. And he ran them through something like what you and I just did. Time's up. 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. Why does God allow this to happen? Yeah. Literally disappeared for six months, and didn't tell anyone where she was because she was terrified that he was going to kill her. He felt publicly humiliated. "Demand me nothing, what you know-, From this time forth, I never will speak word." Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans. And while you're doing that, just give me your finger. I might even tilt towards saying he's a little good to be honest. And in the trial, when the prosecutors essentially ask him, "How you came to commit genocide?" 65%-, to shock their fellow citizens over and over again-. He did this experiment a bunch of times, and in a bunch of different ways. Despite the chlorine gas, he didn't intend for that to happen. Let not your sorrows die though I am dead. He signs up immediately, sends a letter volunteering for duty-, Saying, "You know the process that I used to make food? By this point, David moved on to a new university and he's teaching an introductory psychology class. Was it nice day, nice sky, nice job, or nice chair? The most common source of nitrogen is in the air around us. But the generals were not all that convinced. Then he left some space at the bottom for them to elaborate if they said yes. And he says, "Because of the rage." 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. Thank you to James Shapiro whose most recent book is called Contested Will. He would deny things. The guy yelling, of course, was an actor, and the shocks weren't real. There's trench warfare. According to some accounts, as they crept across no man's land. These are people who are incredibly noble, they are. He could do anything. 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. Well, I mean, I know that sir, but I mean, he's up to a 195 volts. And he believed it. This story made us wonder is David's friend, is he unusual? And we didn't really come to any kind of agreement with the Haber thing. Visit our website. When you press one of these switches all the way down, the learner gets a shock. I'm about to help this quest for knowledge, I really want to do a good job.". Fritz Haber's a professor, small university, he's working with chemicals; it's about 1880. Have you ever thought about killing someone? Jeff Jensen's book is The Green River Killer, A True Detective Story. Okay, so what happened to David that night with his friend got him really curious about murder, and badness, and all these things we're thinking about. Then a few months later, he started calling me trying to get back together, but I didn't want to. 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. You're going to keep giving what? 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. So he sends a letter to the Ministry of Education resigning, and he leaves Germany. Support Radiolab today atRadiolab.org/donate. But 75% of the people who worked for him at the institute, they were Jewish. And then, walks away from his child and his wife dead in the garden and says-. 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." So during World War I, Haber's Institute had developed a formulation of insect killing gas called zyklon. ", And the class ended, and I went back to my office, and I just sat at my desk, and I started reading these. 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. But if you could somehow get a real Iago in the room, and subject that person to questioning, and really get them to sort of fess up as to why they did it, would that make a difference? And oddly enough, we got a really interesting take on the true nature of badness from this guy-. It's absolutely essential that you continue. I knew she had a daughter and-. I got those all at night, mostly. Bonobos. In that moment, my father, he stands up and he says. And today evil, although, I don't know if that's the right word for this next thing. And that's all the difference in the world. Radiolab is supported by Audible. Yeah, I agree with that. It's the experimenter. The participants, you know, they're not- it's not- it's not just blind obedience. Unusually so in those times. 450 volts every shock now? Haber finds himself in a little town in Belgium called-. And as it happens, my father has very vivid memories of investigating the Carol Christensen murder. Well that's to [inaudible 00:19:32], just cut it out. Now we're seeing about 100 million tons of synthetic fertilizer produced industrially each year. And the, uh, really, really bad that is in, uh, some of us. Because you are sullied by them. Yeah, me too. One of the reasons it grows is because it's sucking up all the nitrogen in the soil. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. He walked out of the room and just started weeping. And when you stick a seed, like a wheat seed in the ground. "Well, why can't you deal with it in a normal way?" Okay? Sort of unsportsmanlike. So, here's the interesting thing. He signs up immediately, sends a letter volunteering for duty. And then he just trails off. Any time the experimenter said, "You must continue" the shocker would say, "Hell no, I don't.". Wasn't satisfied [inaudible 01:01:21] maybe mad 'cause she was very much in a hurry. And I- I killed her. 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