The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
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This one does what it says on the tin: instantly kills you with a beam of indeterminate provenance! What other podcast can promise that? Aside from Roman Mars, obviously.
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Nobody paid much attention to Jean Hardouin in 1729 when he said that all of history was faked. But since then, his message has found a lot more receptive ears. Meet your newest conspiratorial friends: The Chronology Truthers.
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What if I told you everything you knew was a lie? Okay, well what if a 17th century French librarian told you everything you knew was a lie?
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On March 8th, 1874, the animals escaped from The Central Park Zoo.
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Some things are ordered and some are chaotic. This story is neither.
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What do the modern flat earth movement, the history of animal experimentation, the invention of civil engineering, ballet, pantomime, and the first British robot all have in common?
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We know longer make people walk hot coals, or swim witches, or touch dead bodies. But everything we know about solving crime is still wrong.
The National Registry of Exonerations 2009 NAS Report The Innocence Project The Story of Gary Dotson Leora Smith's excellent reporting on Herbert MacDonell and blood spatter Trial by Fire, David Grann for The New Yorker The Story of Cameron Todd Willingham via The Chicago Tribune Radley Balko at The Washington Post Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here. BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! Music by: Blue Dot Sessions Lee Rosevere Kevin MacLeod Ben Sound Voice Talent from: Heather Chrisler Carlo Garcia Steve Peebles
On part two of this three part series on forensics, we're bridging the gap, between the ancient and modern means of solving crimes. How did forensic science get into courts in the first place? And is it actually science at all?
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Fingerprints, DNA, blood spatter, ballistics. Before any of those forensic sciences, investigators and courts had a very different suite of tools for solving crime. On this episode, we're looking at some of them.
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For the last episode of 2020, we're returning to our fair city, Chicago, for the unlikely story of a hard-scrapple hobo who formed his own independent, autonomous district on the non-existent east side of town, which he managed to keep control of for nearly forty years... well, sort of.
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