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The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Tidbits and Trimmings

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Natural Sciences, Design, History, Arts, Science

4.8922 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

While we work away on season 2, here's a few extra stories related to the content from season 1 that didn't make their way into the episodes. More art hoaxes! More diligent prime number seekers! More birds on The Moon! 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

Canva's magic right can improve any dull piece of work.

0:08.4

Canva's magic right turns dismal diction into spellbinding sentences.

0:13.8

Canva's magic right sprinkles enchanting inscriptions into dull documents.

0:19.2

Canva's magic right turns dull drafts into salient soliloquies.

0:25.0

Dull words designed, convincing, eloquent, compelling, poetic with Canva AI tools.

0:32.2

Canva design against dull.

0:35.1

Thoughtful driving tips from ESO, number three. This is Kieran. He's doing

0:40.5

70 on the motorway on his way to a cheeky spa appointment, though his diary says he's visiting a

0:46.8

client. Nauty Kieran, lowering his speed to 60 could save him up to 9% in fuel on the journey.

0:54.9

Enjoy that hot stone massage, Kieran.

0:57.6

Slowing down a little.

0:59.1

Day after Christmas, December 26th, 2017, that is Boxing Day, we dropped a story about

1:06.6

Marine Mersen and his famous brand of Prime Numbers.

1:10.1

The very same day, a FedEx employee in Germantown, Tennessee, named John Pace, pulled up his

1:19.3

computer and found something he must have been pretty excited about.

1:23.4

Pace is a volunteer for the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, or GIMPS,

1:29.9

a freelance project that allows anyone with a computer and an internet connection

1:35.8

to join the hunt for the next largest prime number known to mankind.

1:41.1

In 14 years of working with the project, and six days of crunching his latest candidate, Pace had found it.

1:49.0

The largest prime number.

1:52.0

For now.

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