We're Still Here

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Mark Chrisler

Natural Sciences, Design, History, Arts, Science

4.8 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

"Threatening the world with Famine, Plague and War: To Princes, Death! To Kingdoms, many Crosses; To all Estates, inevitable Losses! To Herdsmen, Rot; to Plowmen, hapless Seasons; To Sailors, Storms, To Cities, Civil Treasons!" -John Gadsbury, 1665. This week we get superstitious with comets, the great bearded stars that herald wishes made true. Or else fiery death. One or the other. For millennia mankind was panicked by these heavenly signs, not knowing what they were. And once we did find out what they were... well, then we panicked differently. 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.
0:28.6	This episode is brought to you by Diet Coke.
0:32.8	Time for a Diet Coke break.
0:36.9	Enjoy what you like.
0:39.8	Just how you like it.
0:44.3	This is my taste.
0:47.9	What's yours?
0:51.2	Celebrate your unique taste with Diet Coke.
0:57.5	In January of 1066, the call went out. King Edward the Confessor, last English monarch of the house of Wessex, was dead.
1:07.9	This was bad news for England, as Edward had failed to produce an air, and the future
1:12.3	of the kingdom sat in doubt. The Wittins, the ruling class of England, convened and appointed
1:17.9	Harold Godwinson, another Saxon, the new king of England, while William of Normandy began
1:23.6	contemplating invasion. For months William built warships and marshaled forces, while the new King Herald prepared
1:31.8	troops and battlements in anticipation of a coming war for the future of England.
1:37.6	And yet no war came.
1:39.5	William sat on the beaches of Brittany, surrounded by soldiers and ships waiting for a sign that was slow in coming.
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