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99% Invisible

Galloping Gertie

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.827.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2012

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Even during the construction of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the deck would go up and down by several feet with the slightest breeze. Construction workers on the span chewed on lemon wedges to stop their motion sickness.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We get support from UC Davis, a globally ranked university working to solve the world's most pressing problems in food, energy, health, education, and the environment.

0:10.0

UC Davis researchers collaborate and innovate in California and around the globe to find

0:14.2

transformational solutions.

0:16.1

It's all part of the university's mission to promote quality of life for all living things.

0:20.1

Find out more at 21st century.

0:21.9

UC Davis. edu.c. dot edu

0:28.4

this is 99% invisible

0:30.3

i'm roman mars I'm Roman Mars. The thing about being wrong is that before you know you're wrong, it feels exactly like being right.

0:44.8

If we knew that we were wrong, we wouldn't be wrong.

0:47.0

Nobody's committing intentionally to a false belief about the world.

0:50.3

If they are, they're not wrong.

0:51.4

They're deliberately lying.

0:53.0

Even during the construction of the original Tacoma Narrow's bridge,

0:56.0

which was to become the third longest suspension bridge in the world,

0:59.0

it seemed like something was wrong.

1:02.0

Well, at least in hindsight, it seems like it should have felt

1:04.4

that way but that's not how being wrong works. If you grew up like I did watching the

1:09.3

Warner Brothers cartoons. This is Catherine Schultz author of Wrong, Adventures in the Margin of

1:14.2

error. The Sunday morning cartoon moment where the roadrunner is

1:19.2

dashing off the cliff and the coyote is following him and of course the roadrunner can

1:22.9

fly and the coyote can't and there's this great moment where he's run off the cliff

1:26.5

but he has not yet realized that you know he's there's no solid ground underneath

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