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FAILUROLOGY
Nicole Imeson & Brian Moynihan
Frequency: 1 episode/10d. Total Eps: 100

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Ep 135 Mini Failure 49 Artemis
dimanche 25 août 2024 • Duration 24:45
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Artemis Project. It’s not really about a failure, but as our last mini failure before our hiatus, we wanted to talk about an engineering project we thought was interesting. The artemis project is aiming to put people back on the moon.
Original Air Date: August 20, 2023
Episode Sources
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.failurology.ca
Ep 134 Titan Submersible
dimanche 18 août 2024 • Duration 15:52
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Titan Submersible. A relatively small carbon fibre vessel that imploded on its way to the Titanic.
Original Air Date: August 6, 2023
Episode Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(submersible)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.failurology.ca
Ep 125 Mini Failure 39 Pemberton Mill
dimanche 16 juin 2024 • Duration 11:00
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Pemberton Mill. In 1860, the mill collapsed and then caught on fire in the worst industrial accident in Massachusetts history.
Original Air Date: April 2, 2023
Episode Sources
- https://www.in2013dollars.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemberton_Mill
- https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2022/01/the-pemberton-mill-collapse-and-changes-in-engineering-design/
- https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016751/1860-02-10/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1860&index=19&rows=20&words=Mill+Pemberton&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1861&proxtext=Pemberton+Mill&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1?loclr=blogtea
- http://www.celebrateboston.com/disasters/pemberton-mill-collapse.htm
- https://www.eagletribune.com/news/merrimack_valley/the-walls-trembled-then-fell-lessons-from-the-pemberton-disaster/article_849b31e1-3a10-53cb-a03e-80a3c39e9b56.html
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.failurology.ca
Ep 124 Mini Failure 38 Granville Train Derailment
dimanche 9 juin 2024 • Duration 10:11
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Granville Rail Disaster. A poorly located bridge support and wooden rail cars led to the worst rail disaster in Australian history.
Original Air Date: March 19, 2023
Episode Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_rail_disaster
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38645976
- http://danger-ahead.railfan.net/accidents/granvill.htm
- https://search.records.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/1ebnd1l/ORGANISATIONS1005549
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.failurology.ca
Ep 123 Mini Failure 37 Cypress St Viaduct
dimanche 2 juin 2024 • Duration 11:09
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Cypress St Viaduct. A double decker freeway that served as one of the approaches to the San-Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the viaduct collapsed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Original Air Date: March 5, 2023
Episode Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Street_Viaduct
- https://www.in2013dollars.com/
- https://www.engineering.com/story/cypress-street-viaducts
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.failurology.ca
Ep 122 Mini Failure 36 Frank Slide
dimanche 26 mai 2024 • Duration 14:09
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Frank Slide. In the middle of the night in 1903, part of the town of Frank was buried under a rock slide in 100 seconds.
Original Air Date: February 19, 2023
Episode Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank,_Alberta
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Slide
- https://frankslide.ca/
- https://frankslide.ca/learn
- https://frankslide.ca/sites/frankslide/files/editor_files/Frank_Slide_Facts%20(1).pdf
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.failurology.ca
Ep 121 Mini Failure 35 New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel
dimanche 19 mai 2024 • Duration 13:21
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans. During construction, the northern section of the building collapsed in 2019 and is still under investigation.
Original Air Date: February 5, 2023
Episode Sources
- https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/region6/04032020
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1031_Canal
- https://www.ktbs.com/news/engineer-hard-rock-hotel-designer-ignored-calls-for-more-steel-supports/article_bfebbe24-bd76-11eb-9b16-6392d19abb87.html
- https://www.breakingtravelnews.com/news/article/hard-rock-hotel-new-orleans-scheduled-for-2019-opening/
- https://www.wdsu.com/article/how-much-to-tip/42273189
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.failurology.ca
Ep 120 Mini Failure 34 Juliana Bridge Crane Collapse
dimanche 12 mai 2024 • Duration 12:38
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Juliana Bridge crane collapse in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands. A poorly planned lift that had little to no consideration for safety led to the collapse of two cranes and a new bridge section in the middle of this small Netherlands city.
Original Air Date: January 22, 2023
Episode Sources
- https://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/en/media/attachment/2018/7/10/67a752ae6374summary_hijsongeval_alphen_aan_den_rijn_eng.pdf
- Video - https://www.forconstructionpros.com/business/construction-safety/video/12099051/videotwo-bargemounted-cranes-fall-on-dutch-town
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.failurology.ca
Ep 119 Mini Failure 33 Sudbury Effect
dimanche 5 mai 2024 • Duration 14:11
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Sudbury Effect. Undoing a century of damage, little by little and what went from green and lush, to black and barren, back to green again. Sudbury is now said to have the cleanest air of any city in Ontario.
Original Air Date: January 8, 2023
Episode Sources
- https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-sudbury-effect-lessons-from-a-regreened-city-1.5102540
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Sudbury
- https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-sudbury-ontario-extractive-industries-transition/#:~:text=A%20devastated%20landscape,the%20soils%2C%20rain%20and%20lakes.
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.failurology.ca
Ep 118 Mini Failure 32 PFOA/C8 Contamination
dimanche 28 avril 2024 • Duration 14:03
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about PFOA/C8 Contamination (Dupont Scandal). PFOA has been poisoning living creatures in the Ohio river basin for decades. One brave lawyer took on a huge corporation in this real life David and Goliath story.
Original Air Date: December 12, 2022
Episode Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont
- https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/dupont-lawsuits-re-pfoa-pollution-in-usa/
- https://peri.umass.edu/toxic-100-air-polluters-index-current
- https://www.alleghenyfront.org/ohio-river-communities-are-still-coping-with-teflons-toxic-legacy/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:IARC_Group_2B_carcinogens
- https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes/chemicals/teflon-and-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa.html#:~:text=IARC%20has%20classified%20PFOA%20as,cause%20cancer%20in%20lab%20animals.
- Podcast - https://www.alleghenyfront.org/category/fullepisodes/
Ways to get in touch with us
Email - [email protected]
Website - www.failurology.ca