A Pickle for The Knowing Ones

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Science, Natural Sciences, Design, Arts, History

4.7 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.7	Thoughtful driving tips from ESO, number three.
0:08.0	This is Kieran. He's doing 70 on the motorway. On his way to a cheeky spa appointment,
0:14.2	though his diaries as he's visiting a client. Nauty Kieran, lowering his speed to 60,
0:20.6	could save him up to 9% in fuel on the journey.
0:24.4	Enjoy that hot stone massage, Kieran.
0:27.1	Slowing down a little.
0:28.1	No home.
0:30.4	No address.
0:32.1	No address.
0:33.4	No bank account.
0:34.7	No bank account.
0:35.9	No job.
0:36.9	No job.
0:46.8	No home. No address, no address, no bank account, no job, no home.
0:49.5	It's time to break the vicious circle.
0:54.9	We're working with charities like shelter to provide a bank account for people who are homeless.
0:58.2	Search HSBCUK, no fixed address.
1:02.1	Today's vocab word is peripataya.
1:12.4	Peripataya from the Greek, meaning more or less literally, falling quickly around or turning quickly around.
1:17.3	Generally, today we define it as reversal of fortune.
1:22.5	Peripataya, according to fucking Aristotle, is, quote, a change by which the action veers round to its opposite,
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