Interview on WNYC’s “Radiolab” about unfortunate search-and-replace errors. Did you know Queen Elizabeth lays up to 2,000 eggs a day? (June 28, 2010)
You come up with a great idea. You devise a brilliant plan. You control for every imaginable variable. And once everything’s in place, the train hops your carefully laid tracks. Oops. In this hour of Radiolab, unintended consequences abound.