Mistakes That Changed the World

Eight documentary reconstructions of failures, accidents, and wrong decisions that transformed history.

HistoryScienceDecisions

8 episodesBilingualOriginal series

SEASON ONE

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Vasa: The Warship That Could Not Stay Upright

Royal ambition, design changes, and ignored tests behind a sinking within sight of Stockholm.

14:55 · Sarah

Titanic: A Chain of Avoidable Decisions

14:20 · Sarah

Tacoma Narrows: The Bridge That Learned to Twist

14:50 · Sarah

Thalidomide: The Failure That Transformed Drug Safety

16:23 · Sarah

The Great Smog of London: When Breathing Became Deadly

15:00 · Sarah

Challenger: The Warnings That Failed to Stop a Launch

14:44 · Sarah

Chernobyl: Design, Secrecy, and a Test Out of Control

16:41 · Sarah

Mars Climate Orbiter: The Mission Lost Between Two Units

15:29 · Sarah

ABOUT THE SERIES

Inside Mistakes That Changed the World

Eight documentary reconstructions of failures, accidents, and wrong decisions that transformed history.

Each episode combines context, storytelling, and useful facts to explain the subject clearly, with no prior knowledge required.

Original scriptsResearched and written for every episode.

Natural voicesMateo · Sarah

Listen your wayEnglish and Spanish.

A continuing storyEpisodes connected by one shared universe.

THE SERIES AT A GLANCE

Useful facts before listening

A chain, not one mistakeComplex accidents rarely depend on a single error.

Weak signalsRepeated small anomalies can reveal a systemic problem.

Normalizing deviancePast success does not prove a practice is safe.

Design must anticipateBarriers and redundancy reduce the cost of human error.

Learning needs opennessHiding failures prevents others from improving the system.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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Do I need to listen in order?

No. Each episode stands on its own, although the complete series builds a richer view of the subject.

Can I continue where I stopped?

Yes. Progress is saved on this device for every episode and language.

Can I switch languages?

Yes. Use the language selector to switch between Mateo in Spanish and Sarah in English.

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