FAILUROLOGY – Details, episodes & analysis

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

• https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program

Ways to get in touch with us

Email - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

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 - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

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 - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

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 - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

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 - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

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 - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

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 - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

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 - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

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 - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca

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 - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com

Website - www.failurology.ca