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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Comfortably Numb, Part 1

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Science, Natural Sciences, Design, Arts, History

4.7 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.7

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0:08.4

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0:19.2

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0:24.6

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0:31.6

Canva, design against dull.

0:34.6

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0:41.9

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0:56.0

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1:05.5

If you make a hobby of cataloging errors and fallacies that shaped history. What a weird hobby, you weirdo.

1:12.8

There are certain names that start to pop up over and over again. Perhaps you've noticed

1:17.2

names like Galen, Empedocles, Athanasius Kircher, and, say it with me now, fucking Aristotle.

1:25.9

But what about Georges-Louis Leclerc, the comp de Bofone? Where's his parade?

1:31.5

Where's his t-shirt? Bufone has come up in this show at least six separate times,

1:38.9

but I fear he's never made quite the impression he deserves. He was the first guy to take a daring stab at dating

1:45.9

the age of the Earth. He figured that the planet had started out as a molten rock, good, and that

1:51.6

it had then cooled at a steady rate, bad. So he heated a cannonball, spun it around, measured

1:57.7

how long it took to cool to normal earth temperature, and extrapolated

2:01.5

from there. Pretty flawed all the way around, and even Baffon seemed disappointed in his results.

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