Seeing is Believing

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Natural Sciences, Design, History, Arts, Science

4.8 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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1903 was a year of boundless possibilities: the airplane, open heart surgery, Ford Motor Company, and--most importantly--n-rays. This new form of radiation could be gathered from The Sun and stored in ordinary salt water. It could diagnose illness and grant superhuman abilities. It was the greatest scientific discovery of the century. The only problem was, it wasn't real. Check out our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/theconstant): https://www.patreon.com/theconstant (https://www.patreon.com/theconstant). Look at all the deals we've got for you! Go to https://www.hellofresh.com/landing/theconstant80 (https://www.hellofresh.com/landing/theconstant80) and enter promo code "theconstant80" for $80 off your first month of delicious meals, check out www.betterhelp.com/theconstant (http://www.betterhelp.com/theconstant) and enter discount code "theconstant" for 10% off your first month of online counseling. Finally, there's www.industrialartifacts.net (https://www.industrialartifacts.net/) where you can entered coupon code "theconstant" for 15% off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.5	The constant is brought to you by industrial artifacts. I have recurring daydream where I
1:10.0	inexplicably discover an extra room behind
1:12.4	the closet I'm recording in. It's my own personal office, and in my fantasies, it is glorious.
1:18.8	There's a fine leather regency armchair and ottoman for me to kick up on while I'm reading.
1:23.7	There's a hundred-year-old pull-down map cabinet on the wall so I can stare
1:27.8	purposelessly at the continental U.S. or Illinois, circa 1908, and then do that thing where I let
1:34.1	the map snap, roll up, and disappear the way I got in trouble for in elementary school.
1:38.7	In center stage, there's the desk, an antique quarter-saw on oak draftsman's desk, dark and woody and wonderful,
1:47.2	with more than a dozen pull-out drawers for all my miscellaneous doodads and nonsense.
1:52.5	In my dreams, it's perfect.
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