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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

By Heart, Part 2

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Natural Sciences, Design, History, Arts, Science

4.8922 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Do you remember where we left off? Send me your best "I bet you didn't know that" story in an audio file to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tellmesomethingconstant@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check out: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠indeed.com/theconstant⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ now to start hiringVisit our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠​​⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ​The Constant is part of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Airwave Media⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ podcast network.​​ ​​ ​​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sales@advertisecast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:09.4

Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast.

0:12.6

I want to invite you to join me on the voyages and journeys of the most famous explorers in the history of the world.

0:18.3

These are the thrilling and captivating stories of Vigllan, Shackleton, Lewis, and Clark,

0:23.0

and so many other famous and not so famous adventures from throughout history.

0:27.4

Go to Explorerspodcast.com or just look us up on your podcast app.

0:31.6

That's the Explorers Podcast.

0:34.4

I'm Matt Kaplan, the host of Safeguarding Sound Science, Evolution Edition. Evolution is the

0:40.6

unifying principle of biology, yet it still breeds controversy a century and a half after Charles Darwin.

0:47.9

Join us as we meet the passionate researchers and communicators who are expanding our knowledge

0:53.1

and fighting to keep good science

0:55.2

in our schools and politics.

0:57.9

Subscribe to Safeguarding Sound Science on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you like to listen.

1:05.8

Nigel Richards and I have one thing in common.

1:13.6

Probably more than one thing. What am I talking about? Definitely more than one thing.

1:17.6

Slice the pie right. And Nigel Richards and I must have thousands of things in common.

1:21.6

We're both white guys, English speakers. We both have beards, although his is, and I can say this without insecurity,

1:28.2

markedly, more florid and impressive than mine. We've both been to London. We both maintain a stable

1:34.1

body temperature around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. We both, and I don't know this for a fact,

1:39.3

but how could it not be true? Enjoy pizza. And we've both played a good amount of scrabble.

1:48.6

Granted, what constitutes a good amount of scrabble for Nigel Richards is very different

1:53.8

from what constitutes a good amount of scrabble for me. I mostly play scrabble with my wife,

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