Brady Heywood Podcast

As you can tell by the title of this episode this isn’t a normal episode of The Brady Heywood Podcast. In today’s episode we introduce you to a new show that we’ve been working on called Simplifying Complexity, a podcast all about complexity science.

Simplifying Complexity is all about understanding the underlying principles that govern how systems work; systems as diverse as economies, ecologies, cities and countries. In each episode, we'll meet with the experts, and learn everything from how economies can go boom or bust, to how the Medicis wielded power in Venice in the 1400s, and why large animals live longer than small animals. And above all, we'll learn about the principles that tie all of these things together. 

In the Brady Heywood Podcast, you learnt how things failed, from a technical standpoint, and an organisational standpoint. Simplifying Complexity takes us one step further, to understand how systems work, and just as importantly, how they fail. If you're interested, we've included a teaser of episode one of Simplifying Complexity, where we're joined by David Krakauer from the Santa Fe Institute, who's going to introduce us to the basics and the history of complexity science.

Connect:

• Simplifying Complexity on Apple Podcasts
• Simplifying Complexity on Spotify
• Simplifying Complexity on Twitter
• Sean Brady on Twitter
• Sean Brady on LinkedIn
• Brady Heywood website

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

In today's episode, we bring to a close our three-part series on the collapse of a pedestrian bridge in Miami, Florida, in 2018.

In part one, you heard about the cracks in the bridge and how nothing was done about them. And in part two, you heard about the serious errors that were made in the bridge's design.

In this episode, we take a deep dive into two unanswered questions from this failure: just why did everyone ignore the cracks in the bridge; and why did a rigorous checking process not identify the errors in the bridge's design?

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

Today's episode is the second of a three-part series on the 2018 collapse of the International University Pedestrian Bridge in Miami, Florida.

In our last episode, you heard how a pedestrian bridge under construction at the Florida International University collapsed in 2018 and killed six people. While many things came together to cause the collapse of this structure, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) identified some serious errors in the design of the bridge.

In this episode, we take a deep dive into these serious design errors as we attempt to understand why this tragedy occurred.

Resources and links:

• NTSB Illustrated Digest on the collapse

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

Today's episode is the first of a three-part series about the 2018 collapse of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge in Miami, Florida.

In this part, you'll hear how the signals which could have prevented the collapse of the bridge were ignored, leading to the deaths of six people.

You'll also hear how the checks and balances put in place to identify these bad decisions failed. And how this bridge gave warning sign after warning sign that something was wrong, but the parties involved did little to act.

The more you hear about what happened, the harder you'll find it to understand why it happened.

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

Today's episode is a little different. It explores 'The Brady Review', a report Brady Heywood undertook on the mining and quarrying industry in Queensland, Australia.

From January 2000 until the end of July 2019, 47 people lost their lives in the mining and quarrying industry in Queensland, Australia. That's an average of 2.4 fatalities per year, or 12 fatalities in any five year period.

What's causing these fatalities? Is it that the mining industry is inherently hazardous? Or is it bad luck or human error?

Resources and links:

• The Brady Review report
• Rethinking Safety podcast
• Causal Diagram example

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains vivid descriptions of how the miners, who lost their lives in the disaster, died. Listener discretion is advised.

In this final episode of our three-part series on the Pike River Mine disaster, we bring the story to a close.

We examine what took place on the day of the disaster, 19 November, 2010.

Resources and links:

• Royal Commission on the Pike River Coal Mine Tragedy

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

In part one of this three-part series on the Pike River mine disaster, you heard what took place in the minutes, hours and days following the methane explosion at the mine.

In this episode, we’ll step back and look at the history of the mine. You’ll hear how the factors that led to the explosion didn't suddenly present themselves on 19 November 2010. Instead, they had been building up over the months and years earlier.

Resources and links:

• Royal Commission on the Pike River Coal Mine Tragedy

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains vivid descriptions of the moments that the disaster occurred. Listener discretion is advised.

On the 19th of November 2010, New Zealand experienced one of its worst mining disasters when there was an explosion deep within the Pike River coal mine.

Today’s episode is the first of a three-part series about the disaster. In this part, you’ll hear about the immediate events that initiated the tragedy from the perspective of the people on the ground and in the mine.

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

It's 1970, and the mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, declares that the 1976 Montreal Games will be self-financing. 

In his view, these games can no more have a deficit "...than a man can have a baby". In fact, he thinks the real problem will be in determining how to spend the surplus. But over the coming years, all this optimism will evaporate, and the games will become a financial disaster. 

This project had everything: poor planning, fraudulent practice and corruption. And it shows what happens when architectural and financial free-reign combine with political ambition and immovable deadlines.

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

In this episode, we head to Boston.

The 'Big Dig' was a road and tunnel construction project designed to solve Boston's congestion problems. With the final project cost exceeding $14 billion USD, this megaproject took 20 years to complete. It involved constructing 25 km of highway lanes, 8 km of tunnel, 16 interchanges and 200 bridges.

But on the 10th of July 2006, at 11:01 pm, a section of the I-90 tunnel collapsed unexpectedly, with tragic results.

So what happened? Why did it take six years to collapse? And how could one of the most costly and complex public infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the US have failed so catastrophically?

This episode follows the National Transportation Safety Board as they answer these questions, and shares insights into how such an investigation is conducted.

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

In this short podcast we discuss the re-release of our Apollo 13 Series as Saving Apollo 13. We also talk about the subject of the next more 'traditional' Brady Heywood Podcast Episode.

Saving Apollo 13 is available on iTunes via the link below or by searching 'Saving Apollo 13' wherever you find good podcasts:

Apple Podcasts: Saving Apollo 13 👨‍🚀

Follow the show on social media:

Twitter: @SavingApollo_13

Instagram:  savingapollo13

Facebook: @savingapollo13

Contact Wavelength Creative: https://wavelengthcreative.com/

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

Want to take a deep dive behind the scenes of our Apollo 13 podcast series? Want to know the cause of the failure?

Then this podcast is for you. We’ll talk about each episode, cover the technical material we left out, discuss the cause, and even chat about Ron Howard’s excellent movie, Apollo 13.

We’ll even throw in a clue about our next long-form series…

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Omega Tau podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/omega-tau-science-engineering-english-only/id350159142

Apollo13Minute: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/apollo-13-minute-podcast/id1403021295

Go Flight: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/go-flight-with-rick-houston/id1407006257

13 Minutes to the moon: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/13-minutes-to-the-moon/id1459657136

Jared Owen animations: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbsfyGlrjrKQC0gbzK0-EiA

Gimbel lock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmCzZ-D8Wdk

Slide Rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYhOoYf_XT0&t=318s

Apollo 13's re-entry audio was recorded at Honeysuckle Creek in Australia and can be found at  https://www.honeysucklecreek.net/msfn_missions/Apollo_13_mission/a13_re-entry_index.html 

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

Apollo 13 is about to undertake one of the most improvised and dangerous re-entries ever attempted by NASA.

Will John Aaron and the Tiger Team figure out how to power back up the Command Module in time? Has the heat shield been damaged? Are their parachute's frozen?   

This is the final episode of Apollo 13. But be sure to subscribe to the podcast because we will be releasing an Addendum episode at some point in 2019. In this episode we'll take a behind the scenes look at Apollo 13. We'll cover all the material that didn't make it into the series, as well as taking a deep dive into the technical causes of the explosion on board. 

Thank you for listening.

The series is accompanied by bonus material, in the form of photographs and graphics, which will be posted on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

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For more details on Apollo 13, please read Jeffrey Kluger and Jim Lovell’s wonderful book titled 'Apollo 13'. Many of the conversations presented in this podcast are from this book.

Details of the spacecraft configuration at the time of the explosion can be found here: http://img2.tfd.com/pp/wikiimg.ashx?p=commons%2fthumb%2f0%2f01%2f2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg%2f799px-2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg

All the NASA audio used in the series can be found at: https://archive.org/details/Apollo13Audio (The Audio is edited.)

Apollo 13's re-entry audio was recorded at Honeysuckle Creek in Australia and can be found at  https://www.honeysucklecreek.net/msfn_missions/Apollo_13_mission/a13_re-entry_index.html 

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

The crew of Apollo 13 begin their long fall to earth. In this entire episode we stay with the crew as they go around the moon, fight to keep their LEM functioning and their trajectory correct - all while their spacecraft begins to freeze around them.

The final episode will be released next Thursday.

The series is accompanied by bonus material, in the form of photographs and graphics, which will be posted on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter at @BradyHeywoodPod

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bradyheywoodpod/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bradyheywoodpod/

Email [email protected]

For more details on Apollo 13, please read Jeffrey Kluger and Jim Lovell’s wonderful book titled 'Apollo 13'. Many of the conversations presented in this podcast are from this book.

Details of the spacecraft configuration at the time of the explosion can be found here: http://img2.tfd.com/pp/wikiimg.ashx?p=commons%2fthumb%2f0%2f01%2f2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg%2f799px-2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg

All the NASA audio used in the series can be found at: https://archive.org/details/Apollo13Audio (The Audio is edited.)

Details of Ed Smylie's device can be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_13_Mailbox_at_Mission_Control.jpg

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"I don’t give a damn about the odds and I don’t give a damn that we’ve never done anything like this before. You’ve got to believe, your people have got to believe, that this crew is coming home." Gene Kranz to the Tiger Team, Room 210, April 1970.

The Tiger Team and Mission Control work through the long range problems of getting Apollo 13 home. Meanwhile, the astronauts attempt to confirm their position and trajectory as the moon continues to grow larger in their windows. 

A new episode will be released every Thursday.

The series is accompanied by bonus material, in the form of photographs and graphics, which will be posted on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter at @BradyHeywoodPod

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bradyheywoodpod/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bradyheywoodpod/

Email [email protected]

For more details on Apollo 13, please read Jeffrey Kluger and Jim Lovell’s wonderful book titled 'Apollo 13'. Many of the conversations presented in this podcast are from this book.

Details of the spacecraft configuration at the time of the explosion can be found here: http://img2.tfd.com/pp/wikiimg.ashx?p=commons%2fthumb%2f0%2f01%2f2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg%2f799px-2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg

All the NASA audio used in the series can be found at: https://archive.org/details/Apollo13Audio (The Audio is edited.)

Read more at http://www.bradyheywood.libsyn.com/#3kDhdq361OrESgVJ.99

Read more at https://bradyheywood.libsyn.com/#WlYBsbmY17GXd3Tc.99

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

Following the explosion, the three astronauts and Mission Control fight to save the dying spacecraft. And Gene Kranz assembles a team to tackle an impossible rescue. 

A new episode will be released every Thursday.

The series is accompanied by bonus material, in the form of photographs and graphics, which will be posted on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter at @BradyHeywoodPod

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bradyheywoodpod/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bradyheywoodpod/

Email [email protected]

For more details on Apollo 13, please read Jeffrey Kluger and Jim Lovell’s wonderful book titled 'Apollo 13'. Many of the conversations presented in this podcast are from this book.

Details of the spacecraft configuration at the time of the explosion can be found here: http://img2.tfd.com/pp/wikiimg.ashx?p=commons%2fthumb%2f0%2f01%2f2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg%2f799px-2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg

All the NASA audio used in the series can be found at: https://archive.org/details/Apollo13Audio (The Audio is edited.)

Read more at http://www.bradyheywood.libsyn.com/#3kDhdq361OrESgVJ.99

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

Apollo 13 is 200,000 miles from earth when it’s crippled by an explosion. On board are astronauts Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, and Commander Jim Lovell.

In this five-part series we follow the story of the three astronauts, as well as the scores of people in Mission Control, who scramble to bring Apollo 13 home. We take a deep dive into both the human and technical challenges they face. 

A new episode will be released every Thursday for the next five weeks.

The series will also be accompanied by bonus material, in the form of photographs and graphics, which will be posted on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter at @BradyHeywoodPod

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bradyheywoodpod/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bradyheywoodpod/

Email [email protected]

For more details on Apollo 13, please read Jeffrey Kluger and Jim Lovell’s wonderful book titled 'Apollo 13'. Many of the conversations presented in this podcast are from this book.

Details of the spacecraft configuration at the time of the explosion can be found here: http://img2.tfd.com/pp/wikiimg.ashx?p=commons%2fthumb%2f0%2f01%2f2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg%2f799px-2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg

All the NASA audio used in the series can be found at: https://archive.org/details/Apollo13Audio (The Audio is edited.)

The ABC coverage of the launch can be found at: https://archive.org/details/ABCRadioApollo13LiftOff (The Audio is edited.)

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

Listen to our Apollo 13 teaser, with actual audio from its launch on 11 April 1970.

In the New Year we will tackle the story of Apollo 13. In this episode we chat about the podcast journey so far and we discuss the new episodes currently in the planning stages.

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This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.

The collapse of the I-40 bridge in 2002 was a tragedy, but its aftermath was a story you simply couldn't make up.

It begins with a barge, a bridge, and an impostor, and it ends with a prison sentence, Vladimir Putin, and cheque fraud in Alaska.

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A photograph of the collapse is available at http://www.wkbw.com/news/photos-historic-bridge-collapses-in-the-us#id18

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Can ego knock a bridge down? How one man's decisions caused the collapse of the Quebec Bridge.

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The Royal Commission Report into the collapse can be found at http://publications.gc.ca/site/archivee-archived.html?url=http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2016/bcp-pco/Z1-1907-5-1-1-eng.pdf

This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.