This week, the podcast explored how human ambition and error have shaped history in vastly different ways. Episodes ranged from the personal tragedy of Vincent Van Gogh's struggle with mental illness to the catastrophic failures of engineering and emergency systems, including the 1955 Le Mans disaster, the Three Mile Island nuclear incident, and the origins of 911 services. Together, these stories illustrate the gap between what we intend and what actually happens.
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