The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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**The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong**

A podcast about exactly what it says it is: examining the bad ideas, mistakes and accidents that misshaped our world.

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The Forbidden Experiment Apr 05, 2022

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If you really want to know what language people originally spoke, all you have to do is the unspeakable.

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Babble On Mar 22, 2022

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The search for the original language, the true language, the language of God and Adam and Enoch, begins today.

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What Goes Up (Pt 5) Mar 08, 2022

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Will humanity ever successfully fly? No. Find out why, on this, the conclusion of our five part series on people who tried.

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What Goes Up (Pt 4) Feb 22, 2022

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The doe-eyed optimism of Rousseau! The biting cynicism of Baron von Grimm! And a whole bunch more people attempting to fly, and falling disastrously, all together in one podcast episode!

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What Goes Up (Pt 3) Feb 08, 2022

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On the third part of our survey of failed fliers, we've drawing from all walks of life: a peasant and a physicist, a cobbler and a surgeon, a locksmith and an archbishop, not to mention a pair of brothers who aren't the ones you know.

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What Goes Up (Pt 2) Jan 25, 2022

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What do a professor, a heretic, a clockmaker, a barber, a cantor, a laborer, an architect, an alchemist and a couple of bonafide renaissance men all have in common? All of them tried to fly, and none of them succeeded.

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What Goes Up (Pt 1) Jan 11, 2022

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You've heard of The Wright Brothers, the first people to fly. Maybe you've heard of Alberto Santo Dumont, too. Arguably he managed to fly two years earlier. Perhaps you know The Montgolfier Brothers, who first got a manned balloon in the air. But what about all the people who tried and failed? Forget the history of flying; to start off 2022 we're giving you the history of falling.

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Dance with The Devil in The Pale Moonlight Jan 09, 2022

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New Year, New You, New Constant. Season 11 begins Tuesday, January 11th.

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Men of Stone (Pt 2) Dec 21, 2021

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Throughout the 19th Century, The United States was absolutely barraged by tales of petrified stone men: ancient giants, missing links, careless miners, unfortunate souls and one Civil War hero, General Thomas Francis Meagher.

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Men of Stone (Pt 1) Dec 07, 2021

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In 1897, a Montana prospector discovered something valuable in The Missouri River. Not gold, not silver, not even copper. It was the petrified body of a missing Civil War hero, General Thomas Francis Meagher. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! (https://ce.uci.edu/?utm_source=TNM&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=2022theconstant)Get up to 14 free meals AND three free gifts from HelloFresh by visiting:HelloFresh.com/theconstant14 and entering code "theconstant14" at checkout. (https://www.hellofresh.com/pages/podcast?c=THECONSTANT14&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=cpm&utm_campaign=4020201510podcast&utm_content=theconstant14&dm=meals&featured=family&mealsize=3-4)Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting:http://betterhelp.com/theconstant (http://betterhelp.com/theconstant)Visit GiveWell.org (https://www.givewell.org/) to find a charity today. Be sure to choose "podcast" and enter "The Constant" at checkout to get your donation matched up to $250 dollars. Visit our Patreon here (https://patreon.com/theconstant).BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! (https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirts/the-constant-podcast)Music by:Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com/)

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