FAILUROLOGY
A case study on engineering failures
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Ep 95 Mini Failure 12 Tous Dam
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Tous Dam in Spain. Four years after the dam was completed, heavy rainfa…
00:19:10 |
Sun 19 Nov 2023
Ep 94 Mini Failure 11 Standard Oil Building
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Standard Oil Building in Chicago. During construction, a section of the…
00:21:02 |
Sun 12 Nov 2023
Ep 93 Mini Failure 10 Land O Lakes Sinkhole
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Land O Lakes Sinkhole in Florida. In July 2017 a sinkhole swallowed two…
00:15:10 |
Sun 05 Nov 2023
Ep 92 Mini Failure 09 Cleveland East Gas Explosion
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion. On October 20, 1944, a gas leak at C…
00:17:36 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
Ep 91 Mini Failure 08 Mars Climate Orbiter
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Mars Climate Orbiter. Due to unit conversion errors, a space probe cras…
00:13:03 |
Sun 22 Oct 2023
Ep 90 Mini Failure 07 Gimli Glider
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Gimli Glider. Units are hard, but important. What was thought to be a f…
00:26:38 |
Sun 15 Oct 2023
Ep 89 Mini Failure 06 Knickerbocker Theatre
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Knickerbocker Theatre Collapse in Washington, DC. One really bad snow s…
00:13:54 |
Sun 08 Oct 2023
Ep 88 Mini Failure 05 Big Blue Crane Collapse
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Big Blue Crane Collapse at Miller Park in Milwaukee.
Episode Sources
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00:15:44 |
Sun 01 Oct 2023
Ep 87 Mini Failure 04 Cantara Loop 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 Cantara loop disaster, which still ranks as the largest hazardous chemi…
00:16:24 |
Sun 24 Sep 2023
Ep 86 Mini Failure 03 CIS Insurance
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the CIS Insurance Building in Manchester. To stop the mosaic tiles from fal…
00:09:33 |
Sun 17 Sep 2023
Ep 85 Mini Failure 02 Walkie Talkie Building
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Walkie Talkie Building in London, UK. The building that can melt a car …
00:13:06 |
Sun 10 Sep 2023
Ep 84 Mini Failure 01 Lake Peigneur
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Lake Peigneur. The entire lake drained into a salt mine in a matter of minu…
00:07:37 |
Sun 03 Sep 2023
Ep 83 SPECIAL Earthquakes
This week’s engineering episode is about earthquakes (4:50). Seismic engineering has progressed over time to make sure we’re prepared (13:40) for earthquakes and the tsunamis (21:25) they cause.
Che…
00:30:27 |
Sun 27 Aug 2023
Ep 82 PFOA and Sudbury Effect
This week’s engineering failures are from our mini failure library. We’re talking about PFOA Contamination (2:00) and the Sudbury Effect (16:05).
Episode Sources
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhop…
00:29:50 |
Sun 13 Aug 2023
Ep 81 Bhopal and Asbestos
This week’s engineering failures are from our mini failure library. We’re talking about the Bhopal Gas Leak (1:40) and Asbestos (16:05).
Episode Sources
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disast…
00:32:16 |
Sun 30 Jul 2023
Ep 80 Love Canal and Minamata
This week’s engineering failures are from our mini failure library. We’re talking about the Love Canal (1:45) and the Minamata (15:00).
Episode Sources
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal
● h…
00:25:39 |
Sun 16 Jul 2023
Ep 79 Lac Megantic Rail Disaster
Engineering News – Underwater LIDAR Prototype (1:20)
This week’s engineering failure is the Lac Megantic (5:10). 10 years ago, a train traveling from Montreal (9:40) derailed in downtown Lac Meganti…
00:37:08 |
Sun 02 Jul 2023
Ep 78 Surfside Condo Collapse
Engineering News – Fluid Based Light Filtering Technology (0:40).
This week’s engineering failure is the Surfside Condo Collapse (4:25). We get into the construction of the tower and all the factors…
00:32:22 |
Sun 18 Jun 2023
Ep 77 Motorsport Safety Pt 2
Engineering News – Balance Beam Robot (5:10)
This week’s engineering failure is the Motorsport Safety Pt 2 (7:55). In the second episode of this two part series, we discuss pitlane safety (15:00) an…
00:30:51 |
Sun 04 Jun 2023
Ep 76 Motorsport Safety Pt 1
Engineering News – NASCAR is Going To The Moon (1:50)
This week’s engineering failure is the Motorsport Safety Pt 1 (5:55). In the first episode of this two part series, we discuss early motorsport …
00:31:45 |
Sun 21 May 2023
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