The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
A podcast about exactly what it says it is: examining the bad ideas, mistakes and accidents that misshaped our world.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 216
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Comfortably Numb, Part 1
The war between humanity and its oldest, archest of enemies: pain.
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00:48:35 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Like a Son
He was the most beautiful man in the history of Athens. And he nearly destroyed it.
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00:56:13 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
Whoa Baby
Until recently, our understanding of where babies came from was hazy. Which made it easy for a certain class of hucksters to make up crazy stuff about them.
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00:54:54 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Let's Talk About Sex, Babies (Remix!)
We're remaking one of the all-time classic Constant episodes, this time with decent audio!
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00:56:45 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
The Holy She, Part 2
Did a woman secretly manage to become pope, only to be revealed by a badly mistimed labor in the streets of Rome? Probably not! But it's gonna be fun figuring it out for sure!
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00:50:34 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
The Holy She, Part 1
Did a cross-dressing woman manage to worm her way into the papacy, and was she discovered when she gave birth on the street? Lots of people believe and have believed in the Legend of Pope Joan. We're…
00:42:50 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
Presenting: Historical Blindness
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01:08:33 |
Tue 02 Jan 2024
A Very BMJ Christmas
They celebrate the season a little differently down at The British Medical Journal.
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01:04:22 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
99% Conspicuous
The James R. Thompson Center is the most hated building in the city of Chicago. And it has to be protected.
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01:15:22 |
Tue 05 Dec 2023
Rock Bottomless, Part 2
We can go deeper.
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01:00:43 |
Tue 21 Nov 2023
Rock Bottomless, Part 1
This week, we're going deep. How deep? No one knows!
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00:53:48 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
The Werewolf
A beastly history of the beasts that stalked Europe for centuries.
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01:07:21 |
Tue 24 Oct 2023
Psych Out, Pt 3: Repeat After Me
In which a psychic horse causes the greatest crisis in scientific history.
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01:29:22 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
Introducing: Southern Gothic
The Baynard Mausoleum is the oldest surviving structure on Hilton Head Island, but eerily, the family once interred inside is no longer there. Now, after a century of vandalism and treasure hunters h…
00:30:57 |
Sat 07 Oct 2023
Psych Out, Pt 2: Pick a Card
In which a talking, psychic horse gives JB Rhine the idea for a new field of science: parapsychology.
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01:26:42 |
Tue 19 Sep 2023
Psych Out, Pt 1: Lady Wonder
A horse is a horse, unless, of course, that horse can tell the future.
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01:23:58 |
Tue 05 Sep 2023
Everything Aristotle Has Said is Wrong & The Reflex
Early episodes of this show sound like crap! So this week we're remaking a couple of old favorites.
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00:55:03 |
Tue 22 Aug 2023
The One from Nowhere
In 1900, three lighthouse keepers went missing, starting a phony mystery that long concealed a real one.
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00:53:54 |
Tue 08 Aug 2023
Burning Men
There's a party in 14th Century Europe, and everybody's invited!
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00:56:36 |
Tue 25 Jul 2023
The Captain and The Serpent, Part 2
What's that out there in the distance? A fish? A whale? A SEA SERPENT?! No, it's just the conclusion to our latest two part series!
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01:06:45 |
Tue 11 Jul 2023
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