The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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In December, 1912 a lawyer and a paleontologist made an amazing announcement: The missing link was real, the missing link had been found, and--most incredibly--the missing link was... English? This is the story of the greatest scientific scandal of the 20th century: Piltdown Man. Check out: indeed.com/theconstant now to start hiring Visit www.omahasteaks.com and enter "theconstant" at check out for $30 off your order. Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now!​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.​​ ​​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After Charles Darwin published Origin of Species, the scientific world spent the next fifty years searching for an alternative theory for evolution. And they found plenty. This is the story of a period known as "The Eclipse of Darwinism". Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now!​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.​​ ​​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're keeping things simple this week. Or that was the plan at least. But sometimes the simple things are friggin' complicated. Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant This episode is sponsored by/brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/theconstant and get on your way to being your best self: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Want 15% off an annual subscription to MasterClass? Go here: http://masterclass.com/theconstant​ Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now!​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.​​ ​​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've got a special Halloween episode for you, full of demonic possessions, dark conspiracies and sexy nuns. What more could you ask for? Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant​ Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now!​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.​​ ​​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good history, well-told, five days a week. That's History Daily. So get on it, y'buncha jagbags! How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant​ Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now!​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.​​ ​​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After more than four years of research and nine hours of episodes, we're finally at the TRUE conclusion to The Foolkiller Saga. Or are we...? Want 15% off an annual subscription to MasterClass? Go here: http://masterclass.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant​ Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now!​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.​​ ​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in. How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant​ Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now!​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.​​ ​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a story about the search for goodness in the world. Naturally, it ends tragically. Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant​ Visit GiveWell.org to find a charity today. Be sure to choose "podcast" and enter "The Constant" at checkout. Visit our Patreon here. You too can get ad-free, early episodes, starting now!​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.​​ ​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Beneath lackluster Disney movies and schlocky cable reality television lies an untold true story: the secret brontosauruses of Africa, and the men trying to find them. Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.​​ Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After every American mass shooting, the gun debate is drowned in one question: What about Chicago? Today, we're answering it. "How the A.T.F., Key to Biden’s Gun Plan, Became an N.R.A. ‘Whipping Boy’" -NYT "The ATF’s Nonsensical Non-Searchable Gun Databases, Explained" -The Trace University of Chicago Firearms Reports Illinois 2020 Firearms Trace Data Giffords 2019 Memo on ATF "How the NRA Hobbled the ATF" - Mother Jones "The ATF: A Portrait of an Impotent Bureau" -Washington Monthly Giffords' explainer of Tiahrt Amendments Everytown Gun Trace Reform Proposal Murder and Gun Homicides by City "Their Guns Fueled Chicago Crime. When They Broke the Law, The ATF Went Easy" -The Trace "How the NRA became ATF's biggest enemy" -SF Gate Pascrell, Leahy Gun Tracing Bill Quigley Trace Act Lee, Menendez Gun Record Bill Want 15% off an annual subscription to MasterClass? Go here: http://masterclass.com/theconstant How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ ​BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.​ ​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This story is about music, radio, medicine, politics, power, money, people and... goat testicles. Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ ​BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. ​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are lots of stories about drugs that changed the medical industry. But here's one about a drug that changed the entertainment industry, too. How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ ​BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. ​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1867, The Eliza set out to sea with a fresh crew, a full hold and fair weather. Yet no one expected her to ever make land again.  Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ ​BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. ​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Step right up, step right up! We've got the cure for what ails you: more podcasts! How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. ​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feeling run down, run out or run around? Well friend, I've got the cure for you! Step right up for The Constant Miracle Tonic All Night Medicine Show! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here.​ BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. ​Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 1474, the people of Basel tried, convicted and sentenced to death a rooster, in one of the strangest court cases in history. How about a free fourteen day trial of Shopify? Grab it here! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Get a free business account and a copy of Novo's Small Business Starter Guide at banknovo.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here. ​BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! The Constant is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you really want to know what language people originally spoke, all you have to do is the unspeakable. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233597995_Royal_Investigations_of_the_Origin_of_Language Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Get a free business account and a copy of Novo's Small Business Starter Guide at banknovo.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here. ​BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The search for the original language, the true language, the language of God and Adam and Enoch, begins today. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Get a free business account and a copy of Novo's Small Business Starter Guide at banknovo.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here. ​BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Will humanity ever successfully fly? No. Find out why, on this, the conclusion of our five part series on people who tried. Continue your education via University of California Irvine now! Get $75 credit to upgrade your job post at indeed.com/theconstant Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting: http://betterhelp.com/theconstant Visit our Patreon here. BUY OUR MERCH, YOU FILTHY ANIMALS! Interested in advertising on The Constant? Email sales@advertisecast.com to get on board! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices