Theodore J. Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was the sole perpetrator of a string of attacks lasting decades. He would mail bombs to people involved in technology hoping to incite a revolution to return to humanity’s wild roots, as well as to exact his revenge on society. Obviously, this is a very bad idea.…
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badideas/Chernobyl.mp3 Chernobyl is one of the more important man made disasters of the 20th century. It was the culmination of all our nuclear fears, and arguably the blow that started the final breakdown of the Soviet Union. This is an examination of what caused that disaster, both the technical failures and the human mistakes that…
In which Tony gets deep on “The Long Night” and covers some of the great, much of the bad, and tries to find how it all fits together in ending Game of Thrones. Please tell us what you thought! || More Human Echoes stuff: http://humanechoes.com || Become a member for BONUS PODCASTS: http://bit.ly/1NkSWnQ || Patreon:…
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badideas/Zip_to_Zap.mp3 The Zip to Zap started off as a lark, a small getaway planned but North Dakota State University students in 1969. They planned to drive to the tiny town of Zap, based on nothing more than the fact that the name sounded funny, and have a little spring break fun. But then the story…
The Hitler Diaries were supposedly the most intimate thoughts of Adolf Hitler. Instead they just turned out to be the forgeries of Konrad Kujau just trying to make money. The journals would be bought by gullible collector Gerd Heidemann and published by Stern Magazine for millions. Unfortunately they were claimed as authentic before laboratories could determine…
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badideas/Bone_Wars.mp3 Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope were paleontologists who made amazing advances in a golden ago of fossil discoveries in America near the end of the 19th century. But their competition between each other left a dark mark on the field of paleontology and left both men broke and broken by the ends…
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badideas/Aral_Sea.mp3 The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest body of water in the world. Today it has all but disappeared, leaving the area around it ecologically devastated. In this episode we explore the decisions and mistakes that led to this massive environmental disaster.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badideas/Triplacast.mp3 Network Olympics coverage is terrible, and has been for a long time. These days we can get around that with internet streams of of the events as they happen, but in 1992 if you wanted to watch the Olympics you had to watch NBC’s delayed overproduced feed. That is, until a New York company…