Let's Talk About Sex, Babies

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Natural Sciences, Design, History, Arts, Science

4.8 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Did you ever wonder where babies come from? So did all these guys! But only one of them managed to figure it out. This week, for our season finale, the remarkable story of how we came to know the most fundamental and critical of human questions, and all the bumps along the way. 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.
0:04.7	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.
0:28.9	I'm coming there.
0:29.9	Get more spice in your life with the McSpicy at McDonald's.
0:34.2	With 100% chicken breast in a spicy, crispy coating.
0:38.2	The McSpicey is coming in hot.
0:40.9	Oh, yeah.
0:42.6	I feel like he's kicking in now.
0:47.0	Served off 11 a.m.
0:49.0	Let's begin on a ship again.
0:51.9	We're starting to make a habit of it.
0:57.2	But this is a ship you've maybe heard of. I hope you've heard of. The HMS Beagle. Ring a bell? This is the ship that in 1831 carried a young
1:05.8	naturalist named Charles Darwin into the pantheon of science. For nearly five years it ferried him around the world,
1:14.2	from Australia to South America to most famously Galapagos. The birds, the lizards, the insects,
1:20.5	the fish that Darwin catalogued started him towards his great idea, which he formally formulated
1:26.5	between 1836 and 1838 back in England.
1:30.3	He kept his discovery secret for the next 20 years until the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.
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