Speaking in Maine returned to Camden, for an address by Ambassador Goodwin Cooke who served as US Ambassador to the Central African Republic, before the Midcoast forum on foreign relations. Cooke's talk focuses on the reasons and causes for conflict in Africa and other regions.

Oops. It’s what you say when your carefully laid plans hop the tracks. In this episode, Radiolab dives headlong into stories of unintended consequences—from a psychologist whose zeal to safeguard national security may have created a terrorist, to a toxic lake that, against all odds, gave birth to life.