This is what's driving the world towards 10, 12, by 2050. Takes away his wife, his children, all his material possessions. It's about 1880. And I used to socialize with him and- and his wife. In 1962 Stanley Milgram shocked the world with his study on obedience. You're telling this [inaudible 01:02:30]. And he says, "Because of the rage." And invited me over. He buried them or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods. Terms and conditions apply. He recruited a bunch of subjects. No. David always known this guy to be pretty mild mannered. And not just 'cause he was vain, which everyone agrees he was, but because he loves his country. Imagine how it feels to have an award-winning team by your side through the mortgage process. Yeah, well. ", 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. He did this experiment a bunch of times in a bunch of different ways. The leaves would just sort of shrivel, and the grass was turning to the color of metal. He was always smoking his Virginian cigars. I think I call it [prince-nez 00:28:23], so I'm not sure. ", Now you're saying actually that you could read that very dark fact as being actually evidence of something quite-, Well if you dressed up, and if you just had some minor variance to the paradigm you could, presumably, make this up. Don't- don't the man's health mean anything? So I'm just going to go into this other room over here. Jeff Jensen's book is the Green River Killer: A True Detective Story. He walked out of the room and just started weeping. If I don't leave my house right now, I'm going to kill her." Gary starts going through this narrative of what he did to Carol. For when the subjects didn't want to continue? He claimed they were in the middle of a sex act, he would get distracted, something would happen, he just kind of went crazy, he had snapped; and almost blaming the victims. He could do anything. Fact is if you don't continue, uh, we're going to discontinue the experiment. And they would circle yes or no. He is a soldier. And, you know, my view about human nature is that it affords infinite potential for lightness and dark. But, you know, over the entire ocean there's a lot of gold dissolved into the sea. And so when I went to the party, the party was already in full swing when I got there. 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. And my dad said, "I don't want to talk about it." I mean, that's a pretty heady thing for, you know, a Jewish kid from Breslau to be hobnobbing with the Emperor and cabinet ministers. 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. Just push the button that corresponds to the right word. I would rather have scientists who carry doubt with them as they proceed. This is what totally pulled me into this story, the prods. Yes I did lie about that. You know, you're not the first person that's ever done this. You know what? Test the outer edges of what you think you know, Copyright 2019 New York Public Radio. And especially humiliated over the fact that they had to pay enormous war reparations to other countries. Radiolab is supported by Audible. Take one. You know [crosstalk 00:25:00]. And he is basically homeless at this point. "Willing to help and a worthwhile experiment.". David had always known this guy to be pretty mild mannered. And so, I went up to the bedroom and he was, you know, in a rage. That's historian, Fritz Stern, who also happens to be Fritz Haber's godson. Because you are sullied by them. That I remember picking her up and-. And 84% of the women. Very distinctive looking man. It's 0924 hours on June 17th, year 2003. Within minutes, the gas reached the allied side. 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 the experiment- if the experiment had to be successful, it had to be carried on.". And you tell us, "Actually, no. Walk- walk away. I got those all at night, mostly. There's- there's a lot of-. Give me two more minutes. So he decided he was going to invent a process to pay for these reparations by himself. If it doesn't show that people are just obeying orders-, All right, let's go on to our instructions. It is a fair question to ask what are the conditions under which you or me or any of us could do-. The subjects of 40 males between the ages of 20 and 50. The subjects range in occupation from corporation presidents to good [inaudible 00:12:29] and plumbers. This is how it describes what it does: 'Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Wasn't satisfied [inaudible 01:01:21] maybe mad 'cause she was very much in a hurry. And so, uh, when I went to the party, the party was already in full swing when I got there. I can't quite place him. Dylan Keith is our director of sound design. In Shakespeare, or life. So if you have kids in the room, maybe this is a time to tell them to go brush their teeth or something. It is, arguably, the most significant scientific breakthrough of them all. For information about Sloan, at www.sloan.org. If those two participants refused to go on-, Saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy. And he throws himself in one of the central issues facing Germany that at that time. He had an attack or something there. 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 had snapped. 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. This is Jeff Jensen and he's a reporter in LA. Go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30-day trial and a few audiobook. Yeah. Hmm. What you know you know. Well, all right. But as the play goes on, you begin to think that maybe that's just another lie. And actually, this wasn't just the German thing. Said- said, "Yes, I've thought about killing someone.". He's chomping on a Virginian cigar. He buried them, or left their bodies in these little clumps in the woods-. We're all great apes. According to James, he's not the baddest in Shakespeare or in life because ultimately the play offers up a reason for his nastiness. He didn't really want to cop to everything that he did. Pince-nez, okay. And 84 percent of the women. Then you're kind of done with them. The questionnaires they filled out are part of the Milgram archive at Yale. Then, we reconsider what Stanley Milgram's famous experiment really revealed about human nature (it's both better and worse than we thought). And it's kind of surprising. Of course normally just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. That was just for those of you haven't heard it yet, this is a kind of a rush through a- through sex reproduction. Would you really? I'm Robert Krulwich. Because, ultimately, the play offers up a reason for his nastiness. Any idea what the hell he was intending? You- I mean, I'm not suggesting one should, but I'm just saying there is a sense in which these people are prepared to do something that's very painful to them and to someone else because they want to promote science. And, uh, she had got a disgusted look on her face and said that he was up in the bedroom. Telling a friend he felt like he'd lost his homeland. And my father wasn't buying it. So, I'm just going to go into this other room over here. The Bad Show Jul 27, 2018. We begin with a chilling statistic: 91% of men, and 84% of women, have fantasized about killing someone. So, there's a way in which it touch a spark of humanity. Is there a way to explain why some people act the way they do and others don't?". 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. The subjects range in occupation from corporation presidents, to Good Humor men, and plumbers. Alex Haslam, professor of psychology at the University of Exeter. The first victims of the Green River killer were found in the summer of 1982. Check out the Blank Slate, a book by Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind. We have kids in the- in the room. But what you're doing is for the good of Germany, and this is necessary in order to advance our noble cause.". James Shapiro, professor of English at Columbia University. [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. Was he trying to make a commentary or something? Because if you ask university undergraduates, "What does the Milgram studies show?" Investigating a strange world. But in a us sort of way. [inaudible 00:59:42] Christensen. "I'm willing to help in a worthwhile experiment.". Go to audible.com/radiolab or text Radiolab to 500500 for a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook. Okay? And in this one you get 0% going all the way. Certainly friends of his did. Yeah. She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in her country. Uh, walked in and asked his wife, uh, where this friend of mine was. Prince-nez? The experiment requires that we continue. There's trench warfare, it gets bogged down and Haber has an idea. And the rough statistics are that half of each of our bodies contains nitrogen from the Haber process. He refuses what we fully expect and what everybody on stage at that moment fully expects from him. It was developed in his institute. I mean, it's a pretty big thing to miss. He even schemes against his own wife. Like shocking an innocent stranger over and over. Like you just did, which happens constantly. So every day, they would bring them into this conference room-, This is a continuation of an interview with Gary Leon Ridgeway-. In 1962, Stanley Milgram shocked the world with his study on obedience. It's a graphic or an illustrated novel. So, I heard this one from this guy named David-. Well, we're trying to think about what goes on in the mind of a bad person. Imagine they really were had to administer shocks to themselves or something. This has allowed the world to have 7 billion people. I'm going to take a break. Now you're saying actually that you could read that, that very dark fact, as being actually evidence of something quite- quite noble. 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, I broke up with him. That's my opinion that's where I'm going to stand on it. Yeah. You went through this a lot of times before and she's already told you she's in a hurry. And I used to socialize with him and his wife. Milgram staged the whole thing like it was some experiment about memory and punishment, but of course it wasn't about that. 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 why. Want to talk about bad people in Shakespeare. Under some circumstances we don't do the bad thing we're told to do because" here's another flip "We don't have to be told. What you know, you know.". Natural deposits would be like seaweed or-, You know, you could find it in cow manure or-. She was good to- she was good to me. Imagine they really had to administer shocks to themselves or something. And Iago-, He refuses what we fully expect, and what everybody on stage, at that moment, fully expects from him. But in a famous incident, one of England's leading scientists refuses to shake his hand. Yeah, I agree with that. And when you stick a seed like weed seed in the ground-. Then he left some space at the bottom for them to elaborate if they said yes. ", Only 10 percent, under those circumstances, go on. All right, so I'm going to talk to you over this intercom, okay? So in the end, where do you come down? So Stanley Milgram actually begins these experiments the same year that Adolf Eichmann goes on trial for Nazi war crimes. So Stanley Milgram actually begins these experiments-. Well, have you ever been blackmailed the way this woman was being blackmailed? "The experiment requires that you continue.". His experiment remains one of the most famous experiments of the 20th century. The fact that he kept on doing it over, and over, and over again was like, "Come on.". They start disagreeing with each other. And it's moving at about one meter per second. Hi, I'm Robert Krulwich. And then, realized that he had to leave the house or he was going to do damage to her. You need to admit this. Of course, normally you just have one experimenter who's giving you these instructions. Radiolab is supported by Audible. It is- it is arguably the most significant scientific breakthrough of them all. Milgram staged the whole thing like it was some experiment about memory and punishment, but of course it wasn't about that. So, during World War I Haber's institute had developed a formulation of, um, insect killing gas called zyklon. We've got to know now. "I just needed to kill because of that." They brought in psychiatrists and forensic psychologists to try to get an answer. Could you just tell me the little story that you begin your book with? Birds would just fall from the air. "Have you ever thought about killing someone?" You know, uh, "I'm going to kill her.". My students are murderers.". "Research in any field is a must, particularly in this day and age." He gets promoted to the rank of captain-. Natural deposits would be like seaweed or-, Actually two nations in South America went to war-. "I need to kill because of that." And- and part of the problem here, and although, once again, we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Their goal is to make the home buying process smoother for you. 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. And they go, "Why?" He would deny things. And what is basically like the Baghdad of his time. She had something else on her mind. The story of Job is that one day God and Satan were having a conversation. A liquid. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. This is Everybody was desperate for sources, new sources of nitrogen. The reason why he's telling all this stuff is because he has cut a deal. It was- it was a warning smell so that people didn't inadvertently breathe it in and get sick. Go on please. She just burst my eardrums (laughs). At least not with a tremendous amount of energy. A lot of them were like, "This is not how you fight a war.". Well the thing that haunts me about the why question is that I'm reminded of one of the oldest stories in the Bible, which is the story of Job. ", He actually threw a dinner party in celebration-. As far as I know, I don't know if I did or not. But if looked at from another perspective, there is a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. Yet you go into this anyway, knowing full well that it could-, "That is true. Haber starts thinking, "In order to do this we need to pressure this, we need to put it under a lot of pressure.". Under extreme, extreme pressure. I'll go along with this.". It's called Too Much Information. That's correct. Whether the learner likes it or not, we must-, What's interesting is that how all of these struggles, all of them-, Play out the same way. I mean, it's the fact that of course that they're administering main to a strange. My dad said, "I don't want to talk about it." No motives. ", And the class ended, and I went back to my office, and I just sat at my desk, and I started reading these. So, let me just get that ov- I mean-, So, again, the baseline study is the one where 65% of the volunteers-. Yeah let's . And he says that's what people wanted. But every time the experimenter pulled out the fourth prod, and this was confirmed when the experiment was redone in 2006, total disobedience. I invited him for dinner. There's lots and lots of lessons here, but one is I think, you know, when you are enjoying to do something for the greater good, maybe ask yourself the question, what is greater and what is good? He would give all his baddies at least one moment where they could be understood. Robert, I'm going to give you this piece of paper here. You're not the first one. Humans. Yes. The one that everybody knows, the so called baseline. Like, saying like, "I don't want to kill a guy.". So he sends a letter to the Ministry of Education resigning, and he leaves Germany. in the next room just because they're being told to. So he felt publicly humiliated. Especially because she found out he was leaving the next day to direct more gas attacks. New York Public Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline, often by contractors. Yeah (laughs). He's such a puzzle to me. 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. And-. So the subjects seem willing to shock another human being, but as soon as you say, "It's an order.". We'll be right back [inaudible 00:31:42], let's just finish this series. And in the other room, there was a guy, who he called the learner, who was supposed to have memorized some words. Tell us anything about [inaudible 00:58:03]-. But if looked at from another perspective, there's a sense in which you could celebrate what they're doing. You know, solar energy from the sun to grow crops. Now, that right there, slap some quotations around that. Trim, nice mustache. 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