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. When you needed to stop for breath, your hand ran light and steady. And he finds her actually still alive, with the life about to run out of her. You know, this was like oil is today. And as it happens, my father has very vivid memories of investigating the Carol Christensen murder. There's a pause and my father just says. Like, you walked into the room, what- what do you find? But the weird thing is that he decides not just to take down Othello, but everybody. And also thank you to Alex Haslem, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. It's all right. Uh, he was doing his- his great science work right around the turn of, uh, the 20th century. Because if they're going to record it, I mean I'm going to record it here to but [inaudible 00:27:30]. Sounds insane. His wife went into hiding. Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves and sit them up right at the dear friend's door. Let's go into our instructions. Prince-nez? Then you left some space at the bottom for them to elaborate if they said, "Yes. She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in her country. And in the trial, when the prosecutors essentially ask him, "How you came to commit genocide?" It makes up four out of every five or so molecules that we breathe, so it's very-. That is captured the nitrogen right out of the air. Our- our friend. He eventually goes to England-. And he says, "Because of the rage." And I designed a little, um, questionnaire where I simply ask the students, you know, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" I mean-. Eventually Iago convinces Othello that his wife has been disloyal, which hasn't. Fat- commit them to memory? With help from Adam Cole, Rachel James, and Matt [Kielty 01:07:25]. Meaning, any idea what was in his mind? "This was exactly what was in my mind. He felt publicly humiliated. In Seattle today a man called the Green River killer-. And today, evil? Uh, walked in and asked his wife, uh, where this friend of mine was. The subjects of 40 males between the ages of 20 and 50. And then, the final one. Wore a little, um, uh, pince-nez? Yes 80 percent of the air is nitrogen atoms. This is how it describes what it does: 'Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. If those two participants refused to go on. And it gets even more disturbing for my father as the conversation suddenly pivots to another victim. Year 2003. Yeah. No motives. Now, Haber was Jewish, but because he had served in World War I-. She was good to- she was good to me. You mean they're looking at 20 million people going hungry? Of course normally just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. And-. And as soon as it did, soldiers began to convulse. Let not your sorrows die though I am dead. You know what? He signs up immediately, sends a letter volunteering for duty. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. And this particular story, it comes from a book that David wrote. "Oh, you tell me sir, yes sir, no sir, three bags full, sir.". Literally disappeared for six months and didn't tell anyone where she was because she was terrified that he was going to kill her. Like, you can't throw that air onto a plant (laughing). The expectation is somebody is made to make his peace with his maker before he dies. 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. The show is nationally syndicated and is available as a podcast. We were just enacting an old, very famous experiment that you may have heard about. Why did you inflict on this suffering on them, on us? Just to back up for one second. They couldn't deploy it, they couldn't deploy it. 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. Uh, when- when asked how close she came to killing him, she estimated 60%. He won't answer. Radiolab: Lucy. With a history of industry leading online lending technology developed in the heart of Detroit, Rocket Mortgage is changing the game. And my father wasn't buying it. We'll be right back to Haber, but wait- wait. In other words, nitrogen has really strong attachments to itself. Making him the most prolific serial killer in American history. And so he says that and you're like, "Okay, yes come over now. We just got to get ov- get out of it where-. And when you stick a seed like weed seed in the ground-. Speaking with Carol's mom, Carol's little daughter-, Killed her. So, at a time when there are people all over our country eyeing other people all over the country and thinking, "She's bad. That's it? Podcasts; . They're supposedly chums, but General Othello has no idea that Iago-. Uh, and he finds her actually still alive with her life running out of her. In front of this really impressive looking machine. Whatever it is. It comes to us from our reporter, Aaron Scott. And even when they do say yes, even when they go along with the experiment, as you can see in the film. But if looked at from another perspective, there is a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. Why did you do this?" I think you got to answer it, "With him." This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12, by 2050. Of course, normally you just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. Yeah, members of his extended family did; certainly friends of his did. That's correct. And they think it's right. And it's moving at about one meter per second. RadioLab is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Thousands of people have done it before you. This is Radiolab and today we're going to get bad. And what makes a bad person so bad that he's different from the rest of us? So, go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30 day trial and a few audiobook. He travels to the front. Pince-nez, okay. If any sizable fraction actually acted on their homicidal fantasies, the streets would be running red. And that was a question that had haunted my father for decades. No. That's right. So then Hey wait, I'm almost done guys, give me two more minutes, two more minutes. (laughs). Takes away his wife, his children, all his material possessions. 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. It's a pretty (bleep) thing to miss, isn't it really? You mean they're looking at 20 million people hungry? An experiment is being conducted in the elegant interaction laboratory at Yale University. Okay. To find page after page of yeses. He is- he wants to feed- he wants to feed Germany. And it's just sort of approaching. This is Radio Lab, and today elements. Now we're seeing about 100 million tons of synthetic fertilizer produced industrially each year. And you know what? "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age. "The experiment requires that you continue.". But that's not what he found. Finally acknowledging, "Yeah, that's true." But there's been a fellow, I've been thinking about him for the better part of year, as you know-. You know, energy from the sun to grow crops. And I basically spent the next half hour walking around with him trying to cool him off. Right. Come over now.". This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12 by 2050. It's absolutely essential that you continue. 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? By the ocean of breath twice, I remember I carried your oxygen. He actually was very humiliated, uh, that Germany had lost. How many times would they shock that sad-. Some- some people described it as a cloud, and then, others described it as this kind of 15 foot wall kind of hugging the land. And oddly enough, we came- got a really interesting take on the true nature of badness from this guy. And so I went up to the bedroom to find him and he was in a rage. Do we know? Accuracy and availability may vary. With higher and higher voltage. But it wasn't until a few years later that he learned something that really put what happened that night into context. So around the turn of the century for German scientists like Haber, this was the challenge. James Shapiro, Professor of English at Columbia University. Although, I don't know if that's the right word for this next thing 'cause it's sort of more complicated. And as it happens, my father has very vivid memories of investigating the Carol Christensen murder. When I said, "Goodbye." He recruited a bunch of subjects. To the best of your memory, which word was matched with nice? Now that's important, it's very important. Haber finds himself in a little town in Belgium called-. 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. So every day, they would bring them into this conference room-, This is a continuation of an interview with Gary Leon Ridgeway-. He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. 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. "From this time forth, I never will speak a word." In the best of your memory, which word was matched with nice? And then Othello goes and kills his own wife, smothering hew with a pillow. And not just yeses. He walked out of the room, and just started weeping. He says, "Well, we can drive those enemy soldiers out of trenches with gas. So, my father and the other interviewer in that room that morning, Detective John Natson, they start using a line of, uh, uh, a tact of, uh, uh, of interviewing him that was very-. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. No. Radiolab is supported by Audible. So, I broke up with him. Okay, so I heard this one from this guy named David-. And that's what Shakespeare did in all his plays. But this is why this is such an interesting guy, around the same time, officials in the U.S. government are calling him a war criminal. The one that everybody knows, the so called baseline. There's a pause and my father just says-. So- so first of all, could you just like, uh, when did he live and what did he look like and that kind of stuff? They start disagreeing with each other. 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. If this is the singular moment in Shakespeare where he gives you un-understandably evil man. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of. This is actually mean to be bad anyways. And she said, "My ex-boyfriend. How do you tell the real baddies from the rest of us? The questionnaires they filled out are part of the Milgram archive at Yale. So, who is- who is this guy right here? And I designed a little questionnaire where I simply asked the students, "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" Nobody had done what he was about to do on the scale that he was about to do it. They're doing it because they think they ought to. Well, have you ever been blackmailed the way this woman was being blackmailed? The son eventually after he immigrates to America kills himself. What my father and his colleagues know is that something was done to these bodies; many of them after they were murdered. [2] The story of Job is that one day God and Satan were having a conversation. This hour we take a look at what happens when we all try to live together. Even past when they were screaming in pain. This is what totally pulled me into the story. Okay. Okay, one of those very tiny old fashioned pair of glasses that would pinch on your nose. He has a pot belly. I knew what he was capable of, so I suggested that we go out for a walk. Yeah. 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. And they go, "Why?" Fact is if you don't continue, uh, we're going to discontinue the experiment. I'll give you bad. The Germans were on one side, the French, the Canadians, and the British on the other. Now, admittedly it's a war, but still. Yeah. But it's suspected that it could be upwards of 75. No, because 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. In that why, in that one simple why that he asked Gary, there was a lot of questions he was asking. Our food source then moves into our bodies. When did he live, and what did he look and that kind of stuff? Yeah, well. 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. His calculation showed that it couldn't be done. ", "We'll basically bring it to the front and when the- when the wind is right, we'll just spray it.". This story made us wonder, "Is David's friend-". But if you think that's the right thing. Hmm. You're bad." Let me just get that out. [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. It is a, the- the critical- the critical force prod. We have kids in the- in the room. There's- there's a lot of-. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. Well,the experiment requires that you continue. And this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". Can we really know that? Uh, he's a master plotter. And Iago-, He refuses what we fully expect, and what everybody on stage, at that moment, fully expects from him. He goes straight to the German [inaudible 00:36:56] and- and he pitches this idea. Was he grappling with something? Is that how you say that thing-. Um, we lived together for a couple months. But if they were prepared to do that, when I suspect a lot of them would, then we'd say, "These are people who really believe in science, and isn't this a good thing that we have people in our society, who are willing to make sacrifices-. And, um, in January of 1984, the Green River task force was formed. Thanks. Gary is dancing around this topic, Gary had denied this to his own lawyers. But it wasn't until a few years later that he learned something that really put what happened that night into context. And every scenario produced a different result. Whether it was feeding, or killing, or-, And he does. Mm-hmm (affirmative). And everyone thought, "Well, we know the solution. 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. He says, "Well, we can drive those enemy soldiers out of trenches with gas.". He takes over leadership of this institute in Berlin, and he starts hobnobbing with a whole different level of society. Yes. A liquid that has captured the nitrogen right out of the air. He's standing there on the front, pushing the gas into the lungs of other human beings, admittedly, it's a ware, but still. Now there's a footnote to this that is very strange. When I picked them up, I was going to kill them." There's trench warfare. And not to everybody's taste. with the ideas that people would do bad if they think it's good, it's a good noble cause. And so Satan, basically, systematically destroys Job's life. 2012-06-22 . When you call someone, "Evil." And she said, "My ex boyfriend. We're all great apes. I can't quite place him-. So, you don't know. Clara, also from Breslau, also from a Jewish family. Right. They've got a very plausible, very credible, high status scientist at high status scientific institution. And says, "This is intolerable. In those days if you're a convicted male felon, you are strung up, but you're not allowed to hang until you die; you're cut down before then. And did you go back to the party then and continue dinner partying for a while? The general's name is Othello. His calculations showed that it couldn't be done. He says that he's always been hiring people based on how smart they are, and not who their grandparents were. Yeah. You're telling this [inaudible 01:02:30]. If I don't leave my house right now, I'm going to kill her." I'm good. Why does God allow this to happen? Thank you Ben. I liked her. But what you're doing is for the good of Germany, and this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". There's a lot of black and white thinking happening right now. Why did you take these women off the streets and want to destroy them? "This was exactly what was on my mind. "Why did you inflict all this suffering on them, on us? 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?". Who they would kill, where they'd do it, when. Yeah, well (laughing). So, it's very-. But we will do it on our own if we think it's good.". Yeah. Yeah, necrophilia. And also, thank you to Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter. But the questions in the air, at the time, were very real. Stanley Milgram had four scripted prods that he wrote out for his experimenters. Quite literally. But if you think that's the right thing, if you think that science is worth pursuing you say, "Okay, I'll go along with this.". The shocker would say, "Hell no I don't.". Ear drums, God. Hundreds of them were falling to the ground. The participants, you know, they're not- it's not- it's not just blind obedience. What's interesting is that how all of these struggles, all of them, play out the same way. That I remember picking her up and-. I'll give you bad. And what he decided to do is go into the ocean, into sea water, which contains very small levels of gold. 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. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. ", 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. Suspected that it could be upwards of 75. And 84 percent of the women. Hmm. Listen Infective Heredity. Our frenemy, uh, Fritz Haber. I'm going to take a break. His wife, um, went into hiding. I'm about to help this quest for knowledge, I really want to do a good job.". They couldn't deploy it. God, I feel like we haven't, you and I sat together and said our names in quite some time. It has enough what they used to call then solar energy. And, um, why is it so important do you think to understand the why behind such an evil act? That he asked Gary, there was a lot of questions he was asking. And he is basically homeless at this point. Zyklon A, which was originally just a pesticide-. It's absolutely essential. He had an experimenter who wasn't a scientist, but was a member of the general public. Well, if you dressed it up, and if you had some minor vairance in the paradigm, you could presumable, you know, make- make this up. I needed to kill her because that-. Robert Krulwich: Uh, wait. Accuracy and availability may vary. 35.3M . This- this is really important. That's Stanley Milgram talking about the experiment in a film. And according to some accounts, as it crept across no man's land-. It's about how far would these people go. But the generals were not all that convinced. You walk into the room, what do you find? That's correct, because it takes such energy and pressure to separate it, its trivalent bond is so strong that when it comes back together, that energy is released, it can be used for life or death. Continue using the last switch on the board, please. [inaudible 00:59:22] it's building up [inaudible 00:59:24]. 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. Well if the idea is that people will do bad if they think it's good, if it's a good noble cause. I think I call it [prince-nez 00:28:23], so I'm not sure. This is just somebody who's performing brain surgery without anesthesia on other people. Radiolab is supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. Is that how you say that? The Green River murders terrorized Seattle in the 1980s. 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