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O'Reilly Radar Podcast: SNAFU Catchers, knowing how things work, and the proper response to system discrepancies.In this week's episode, O'Reilly's Mac Slocum sits down with Richard Cook and David Woods. Cook is a physician, researcher, and educator, who is currently a research scientist in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at Ohio State University, and emeritus professor of health care systems safety at Sweden’s KTH. Woods also is a professor at Ohio State University and is leading the Initiative on Complexity in Natural, Social, and Engineered Systems, and he's the co-director of Ohio State University’s Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory. They chat about SNAFU Catchers; anomaly response; and the importance of not only understanding how things fail, but how things normally work.Here are a few highlights: Catching situations abnormal Cook: We're trying to understand how Internet-facing businesses manage to handle all the various problems, difficulties, and oppor