FAILUROLOGY
A case study on engineering failures
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Ep 115 Mini Failure 29 Minamata
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Minamata Disease. How one small Japanese town suffered from decades of merc…
00:10:23 |
Sun 07 Apr 2024
Ep 114 Mini Failure April Fools Bonus - Airplane!
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
Based on the movie Airplane!, this week’s mini failure is a bonus episode about the harrowing events of Trans…
00:17:58 |
Sun 31 Mar 2024
Ep 113 Mini Failure 28 Love Canal
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Love Canal. After a decade of dumping toxic waste, the location was a ba…
00:13:17 |
Sun 24 Mar 2024
Ep 112 Mini Failure 27 Exxon Valdez
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Exxon Valdez. The second worst oil spill in US waters that took decades …
00:17:59 |
Sun 17 Mar 2024
Ep 111 Mini Failure 26 SS Sultana
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the SS Sultana. A steamship that exploded and sank on the Mississippi River …
00:19:09 |
Sun 10 Mar 2024
Ep 110 Mini Failure 25 Gretna Rail Disaster
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Gretna Rail Disaster. Too many trains, some of them knowingly unsafe, w…
00:22:22 |
Sun 03 Mar 2024
Ep 109 Mini Failure 24 Texas Padre Ocean Tower
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Ocean Tower. It was a 31 storey luxury condo tower that was demolished …
00:17:34 |
Sun 25 Feb 2024
Ep 108 Mini Failure 23 Ronan Point
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Ronan Point. A bad fitting and a lit match led to the collapse of the SE co…
00:20:54 |
Sun 18 Feb 2024
Ep 107 Mini Failure 22 Johnstown Flood
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Johnstown Flood AKA that Great Flood of 1889. After heavy rainfall, the…
00:24:58 |
Sun 11 Feb 2024
Ep 106 Mini Failure 21 Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire. A completely preventable fire that took …
00:20:48 |
Sun 04 Feb 2024
Ep 105 Mini Failure 20 Dreamworld’s Thunder River Rapids Ride
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Dreamworld’s Thunder River Rapids Ride in Australia. A failing pump caused a…
00:16:41 |
Sun 28 Jan 2024
Ep 104 Mini Failure 19 DOT-105 Rail Car Chlorine Release
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the DOT-105 Rail Car Chlorine Gas Leak. An old rail car and ineffective mai…
00:14:58 |
Sun 21 Jan 2024
Ep 103 Mini Failure 18 Millenium Tower
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Millenium Tower in San Francisco, which has been sinking and leaning si…
00:23:44 |
Sun 14 Jan 2024
Ep 102 Mini Failure 17 Minnesota Metrodome
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Minnesota Metrodome. A combination of a pressurized structure and a fab…
00:16:28 |
Sun 07 Jan 2024
Ep 101 Re-release Apollo 1
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Apollo 1. What was meant to be a non-hazardous test for the first crewed mi…
00:39:50 |
Sun 31 Dec 2023
Ep 100 Re-release Kursk Submarine
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Kursk Submarine (4:30); a Russian Submarine that sank during a naval tr…
00:41:08 |
Sun 24 Dec 2023
Ep 99 Mini Failure 16 Seattle Kingdome
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Seattle Kingdome. A venue that had design issues from the start; poor d…
00:13:45 |
Sun 17 Dec 2023
Ep 98 Mini Failure 15 London Beer Flood
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the London Beer Flood. A giant wall of beer smashed the brewery wall and se…
00:12:51 |
Sun 10 Dec 2023
Ep 97 Mini Failure 14 Boston Molasses Flood
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Boston Molasses Flood. Over 100 years ago, A wave of molasses flooded t…
00:16:42 |
Sun 03 Dec 2023
Ep 96 Mini Failure 13 Kankaria Amusement Park Ride Accident
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Kankaria Amusement Park Ride Accident in western India. This accident o…
00:13:27 |
Sun 26 Nov 2023
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