The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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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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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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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.
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Our second annual dive into the hidden world of The Constant Secret Feed.
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Be the most popular kid on the block with these fantastic new tricks! Produce bees from lions! Frogs from mud! Scorpions from bricks! This week we're taking on the oldest and most widely believed bullshit of all: spontaneous generation.
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Lucy Lightfoot went missing in 1831, and was later found alive and well... in 1364.
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A long story, made short, and then long again, is finally ready to end. Join us for part three, the story of one guy who singlehandedly solved the most difficult problem in human history. Sort of. Kinda. Not really. But a little bit!
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In part two, we've got an enormous naval disaster, a long-shot con-job, some far-fetched inventions, and some of the most famous scientists to ever lived, all unified by that most difficult of human problems: how to find one's longitude
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Humanity has tackled a lot of hard problems over the last few thousand years--from medicine to physics to splitting tips. But the most difficult question we've ever answered is our subject this week: where are we?
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Today we've got a potpourri of smaller stories: invasive bird spies! Cunning robberies! Booby traps! MULES! Listen in!
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