Interesting Things with JC is a new podcast mini series, with highlight on some of the more interesting historical stories, current events as well as under-told stories.
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Sep 29, 2026 · 2:44
Interesting Things with JC #1790: "Physics: Position vs. Time" — A car moves down a road, stops, or turns around, and a simple position versus time graph records it all, while…
Sep 28, 2026 · 2:21
Interesting Things with JC #1789: "The Lake Michigan Circle" — Drive 1,100 miles around Lake Michigan through 4 states, or board a steamship where an official spur takes the…
Sep 27, 2026 · 5:30
Interesting Things with JC #1788: "What the Gateway Process Actually Proved" — An Army officer examined Gateway in 1983. Decades later, his report circulates as CIA proof of…
Sep 26, 2026 · 2:50
Interesting Things with JC #1787: "Does Apple Cider Turn Into Alcohol?!" – Fresh apple cider starts bubbling. The sweetness drops. Alcohol is forming, and the process may not…
Sep 25, 2026 · 5:04
Interesting Things with JC #1786: "9 to 5 - The Movie" – Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton worked inside a fake office built around problems real working women were…
Sep 24, 2026 · 2:50
Interesting Things with JC #1785: "Why the Desert Floods So Fast" – A desert thunderstorm drops rain faster than the ground can absorb it, sending excess water downhill into…
Sep 23, 2026 · 2:26
Interesting Things with JC #1784: "The Hydrogen Peroxide Mistake" – Hydrogen peroxide foams on a scraped knee, but the bubbles don't prove germs are dying. The same chemical…
Sep 22, 2026 · 2:51
Interesting Things with JC #1783: "Humanity is Unprepared for AI" – A student spends years preparing for a career while AI changes the work before graduation. Machines can…
Sep 21, 2026 · 2:24
Interesting Things with JC #1782: "Why Sound Would Break Apart on Mars" – A human voice travels through Mars’s thin atmosphere, but its higher frequencies move faster than its…
Sep 20, 2026 · 4:17
Interesting Things with JC #1781: "The Carnyx" – Celtic warriors raised bronze carnyxes nearly 10 feet high, blasting sound through open animal jaws above the battlefield. One…
Sep 19, 2026 · 2:38
Interesting Things with JC #1780: "The Hoover Dam Angels" – Visitors rub the bronze toes of Hoover Dam's 30-foot angels for good luck, unaware that the floor beneath them…
Sep 18, 2026 · 2:31
Interesting Things with JC #1779: "The Encryption Keys Inside the Camera" – Hackers examine a stolen Flock camera and find an encryption key stored inside the device. Recordings…
Sep 17, 2026 · 2:28
Interesting Things with JC #1778: "The Waffle House Hero" – James Shaw Jr. is trapped inside a Waffle House as a gunman fires through the restaurant, then the shooting stops.…
Sep 16, 2026 · 2:44
Interesting Things with JC #1777: "Your Mind Controls Your Age" – Adults who viewed their own aging more positively lived an average of 7.5 years longer in a long-running Yale…
Sep 15, 2026 · 2:59
Interesting Things with JC #1776: "Ellen Langer - Counterclockwise" – In 1979, elderly men entered a retreat rebuilt as 1959 and were told to live as though twenty years had…
Sep 14, 2026 · 2:53
Interesting Things with JC #1775: "The Signal Einstein Thought We Might Never Hear" – Two LIGO detectors register the same gravitational-wave signal seven milliseconds apart as…
Sep 13, 2026 · 2:41
Interesting Things with JC #1774: "Uncle Sam Day" – Samuel Wilson is supplying beef to American troops in barrels marked “U.S.” when people begin connecting the initials with the…
Sep 12, 2026 · 2:51
Interesting Things with JC #1773: "The Clock Behind Instant Replay" – Two instant-replay feeds showing the same moment can reach officials milliseconds apart. Every step through…
Sep 11, 2026 · 4:38
Interesting Things with JC #1772: "Staten Island Remembers" – At Staten Island’s Postcards memorial, 274 individual plaques face across New York Harbor toward the place where the…
Sep 10, 2026 · 4:28
Interesting Things with JC #1771: "Debut of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" - The original Fresh Prince theme was much longer. In the video for the opening, Will packed and then…
Sep 9, 2026 · 4:26
Interesting Things with JC #1770: "When a Parasite Rewires Behavior to Spread Itself" – Infected Texas field crickets were sterile or producing barely moving sperm, but they kept…
Sep 8, 2026 · 3:28
Interesting Things with JC #1769: "Football Brain Injury Cover Up" – Dr. Bennet Omalu found CTE in Mike Webster’s brain, and the NFL’s concussion committee challenged the…
Sep 7, 2026 · 2:54
Interesting Things with JC #1768: "The Science of Jealousy" – Jealousy can fire before there is proof: attention shifts, suspicion locks in, and the brain starts tracking details…
Sep 6, 2026 · 2:16
Interesting Things with JC #1767: "The Spider-Man of Paris" – A four-year-old boy hangs from a fourth-floor balcony in Paris. Mamoudou Gassama climbs the building with his bare…
Sep 5, 2026 · 2:33
Interesting Things with JC #1766: "Autistici/Inventati - The Network Behind the Network" – Autistici/Inventati runs encrypted email, private chats, websites and other…
Sep 4, 2026 · 6:51
Interesting Things with JC #1765: "The FBI Surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr." – The FBI wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr. without a criminal charge and failed to establish…
Sep 3, 2026 · 3:20
Interesting Things with JC #1764: "The Treaty of Paris" – Britain signs the Treaty of Paris recognizing all thirteen American states as “free sovereign and Independent States”…
Sep 2, 2026 · 4:02
Interesting Things with JC #1763: "Looking for Quantum Gravity with Light" – Scientists are firing lasers through interferometers to detect quantum gravity without reaching the…
Sep 1, 2026 · 4:26
Interesting Things with JC #1762: "The Man Who Guarded the Skies During the Cold War" – In 1975, Daniel “Chappie” James Jr. took command of NORAD as its radar and warning systems…
Aug 31, 2026 · 5:16
Interesting Things with JC #1761: "At the Space-Time Limit" – In 2026, researchers measured an electron moving through a barrier in less than a femtosecond while still seeing…
Aug 30, 2026 · 2:36
Interesting Things with JC #1760: "The Greek That Stayed Behind" – Muslim families in Turkey still speak a form of Greek that survived the 1923 population exchange. Now fewer…
Aug 29, 2026 · 6:43
Interesting Things with JC #1759: "Gestalt Language Processing" – A child repeats a phrase they heard hours, days, or weeks earlier, sometimes using the same tone and rhythm.…
Aug 28, 2026 · 2:54
Interesting Things with JC #1758: "The Oxytocin Feedback Loop" – A dog holds its owner’s gaze, and oxytocin rises in the human. The owner then interacts more with the dog, whose…
Aug 27, 2026 · 3:47
Interesting Things with JC #1757: "The Tracking Device We Carry" – Your phone tracking everywhere you go once sounded like a conspiracy. Now smartphones routinely create location…
Aug 26, 2026 · 2:40
Interesting Things with JC #1756: "What Happens When You Skip Sleep?" – Stay awake long enough and adenosine signaling increases sleep pressure while caffeine can temporarily…
Aug 25, 2026 · 2:45
Interesting Things with JC #1755: "How Do Dogs Know How to Herd?" – A Border Collie can crouch, stare, and move around sheep before learning herding commands. Selective breeding…
Aug 24, 2026 · 2:47
Interesting Things with JC #1754: "Jose Alberto Gutierrez" – Bogotá garbage collector José Alberto Gutiérrez keeps pulling discarded books from the trash until his home becomes a…
Aug 23, 2026 · 2:08
Interesting Things with JC #1753: "Charlie " – The name is very common today, but it kept changing as it passed through different languages.
Aug 22, 2026 · 2:36
Interesting Things with JC #1752: "The Blind Man" – A blind man’s eyes are touched, and he begins to see people, but they look like trees walking around. His eyes are touched…
Aug 21, 2026
Interesting Things with JC #1751: "The Wasps That Know Your Face" – Northern paper wasps recognize individual nestmates by their faces. Change a familiar face, and the colony…
Aug 20, 2026
Interesting Things with JC #1750: "Trebizond" – Ships carry coffee, copper, cloth, salt, and other goods through Trebizond while steep roads climb from the Black Sea harbor into…
Aug 19, 2026 · 2:46
Interesting Things with JC #1749: "Ouzel Lake and the Dangers of Alpine Swimming" – Ouzel Lake can look inviting after a 4.9-mile summer hike, but the mountain water can remain…
Aug 18, 2026 · 3:47
Interesting Things with JC #1748: "Follow the Leader" – August 18th, 1998 a legendary album dropped. Korn’s original Follow the Leader CD starts with twelve five-second tracks…
Aug 17, 2026 · 4:25
Interesting Things with JC #1747: "Davy Crockett Before the Legend" – Davy Crockett was becoming a legend while he was still alive. He claimed 105 bears in less than a year,…
Aug 16, 2026 · 2:36
Interesting Things with JC #1746: "Julie Newmar" – Julie had already won a Tony and trained for years in ballet before playing Catwoman, then used that same attention to movement…
Aug 15, 2026 · 4:18
Interesting Things with JC #1745: "The Wow! Signal" – A radio telescope in Ohio detected a powerful narrowband signal from the direction of Sagittarius for 72 seconds, matching…
Aug 14, 2026 · 2:34
Interesting Things with JC #1744: "The Lemon Juice Heist" – McArthur Wheeler robs Pittsburgh banks with lemon juice on his face because he believes security cameras cannot see…
Aug 13, 2026 · 3:42
Interesting Things with JC #1743: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect" – Low performers overestimated their scores, but the famous “Mount Stupid” graph wasn’t part of the study, and…
Aug 12, 2026 · 4:43
Interesting Things with JC #1742: "The Milk Hill Spiral" – In a wheat field on Milk Hill, 409 separate circles form a six-sided spiral across roughly 780 to 900 feet of rolling…
Aug 11, 2026 · 3:52
Interesting Things with JC #1741: "The Night Hip-Hop Was Born" – At a Bronx party in 1973, DJ Kool Herc notices that dancers come alive during the short drum breaks, but the…
Aug 10, 2026 · 6:23
Interesting Things with JC #1740: "Forty Six and 2" – Tool’s “Forty Six & 2” starts with a shadow shedding its skin, moves through wounds being reopened, and hides a disputed…
Aug 9, 2026 · 2:48
Interesting Things with JC #1739: "R&B in the Rain" – The Temptations use rain to hide a man’s tears, but later R&B records keep putting people in the same weather for different…
Aug 8, 2026 · 1:49
Interesting Things with JC #1738: "The Swiss Army Knife Parcel Hook" – A small hook on the back of many Swiss Army Knives was designed to carry heavy string-tied parcels without…
Aug 7, 2026 · 2:34
Interesting Things with JC #1737: "Susan and Phil" – A woman enters a Fort Worth topless bar because she needs money, but the bouncer watching the door decides she doesn't belong…
Aug 6, 2026 · 2:58
Interesting Things with JC #1736: "NFL Training Camp" – Every NFL team starts training camp with 90 players, but every practice removes someone from the race until only 53 are…
Aug 5, 2026 · 2:17
Interesting Things with JC #1735: "The SpaceX Rocket That Crashed on the Moon" – A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage drifted through space for more than a year after completing…
Aug 4, 2026 · 2:38
Interesting Things with JC #1734: "Tattoo Ink and Your Lymph Nodes" – Tattoo ink doesn't always stay in your skin. Your immune system carries some of it into nearby lymph nodes,…
Aug 3, 2026 · 2:37
Interesting Things with JC #1733: "Can Rams Get Brain Damage?" – Bighorn rams survive violent head-on crashes that would devastate most animals, yet their brains may still carry…
Aug 2, 2026 · 2:57
Interesting Things with JC #1732: "The Man Who Changed How Britain Learned Mathematics" – A Cambridge mathematician leaves a prestigious research career to redesign how…
Aug 1, 2026 · 2:42
Interesting Things with JC #1731: "Mac's Drive-In" – A drive-in restaurant has kept the same carhop service, horseshoe counter, and frosted root beer tradition alive since 1961,…
Jul 31, 2026 · 2:44
Interesting Things with JC #1730: "Weed Zappers" – Herbicide-resistant weeds are surviving the chemicals meant to kill them, so some farmers are now sending 15,000 volts through…
Jul 30, 2026 · 2:55
Interesting Things with JC #1729: "Project Skif: Russia's Seabed Nuclear Silos" – Intelligence reports suggest Russia may be testing nuclear missile launchers designed to wait…
Jul 29, 2026 · 5:48
Interesting Things with JC #1728: "Little Italy" – Millions of Italian immigrants came to America seeking opportunity and helped build New York through hard work, faith, and…
Jul 28, 2026 · 4:18
Interesting Things with JC #1727: "The Pontic Mountains" – A mountain range traps rain along Turkey's Black Sea coast while drying the land just beyond it, shaping forests,…
Jul 27, 2026 · 5:44
Interesting Things with JC #1726: "The Pontiac Banshee" – Pontiac kept building sports cars it was never allowed to sell. Even so, every generation left pieces of itself on the…
Jul 26, 2026 · 3:00
Interesting Things with JC #1725: "The King Who Invented an Invasion" – Sweden's King Gustav III needed Russia to attack first before he could legally wage war, so his government…
Jul 25, 2026 · 2:44
Interesting Things with JC #1724: "The History of Yo Mama Jokes" – A "Yo Mama" joke appears on a Babylonian clay tablet from about 1500 BC, showing that one of today's most…
Jul 24, 2026 · 2:53
Interesting Things with JC #1723: "Ancient Roman Laundry" – Roman laundries cleaned clothing by stomping it in vats of aged urine because the ammonia removed grease and stains.…
Jul 23, 2026 · 2:42
Interesting Things with JC #1722: "Does Hair Grow Back Thicker if You Shave It?" – Freshly shaved hair feels thicker because the razor leaves every strand with a blunt end…
Jul 22, 2026 · 2:25
Interesting Things with JC #1721: "The Naming of Cleveland" – A surveying party names a new settlement after General Moses Cleaveland even though he wanted a different name, then…
Jul 21, 2026 · 2:21
Interesting Things with JC #1720: "The Name That Turned a City into a Canvas" – A New York City teenager writes the same name across all five boroughs until a newspaper reveals…
Jul 20, 2026 · 2:38
Interesting Things with JC #1719: "Drop D Tuning" – A guitarist lowers one string by two semitones, and power chords that once required multiple finger shapes become a straight…
Jul 19, 2026 · 3:31
Interesting Things with JC #1718: "The Moment New York Set the Style" - Discover how Eleanor Lambert’s 1943 "Press Week" broke the fashion world’s reliance on Paris and…
Jul 18, 2026 · 2:07
Interesting Things with JC #1718: "Why Is There a Gap in the Toilet Seat?" – Airports, restaurants, offices, and highway rest stops all use toilet seats with the same piece…
Jul 17, 2026 · 2:47
Interesting Things with JC #1716: "The Legendary Jim Kilts" – Gillette had missed earnings expectations for 14 straight quarters, yet most of its executives were still earning…
Jul 16, 2026 · 2:11
Interesting Things with JC #1715: "Hunny, Bunny, and the Twins Who Married the Twins" – Identical twins Hunny and Bunny meet identical twins Elliot and Danny while working at a…
Jul 15, 2026 · 2:11
Interesting Things with JC #1714: "When Gut Bacteria Escape" – Bacteroides fragilis lives normally inside the colon until the intestinal wall breaks and gut bacteria spill into…
Jul 14, 2026 · 2:30
Interesting Things with JC #1713: "How Do You Catch Legionnaires' Disease?" – Fifty-four people are diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease in two Manhattan neighborhoods as…
Jul 13, 2026 · 2:15
Interesting Things with JC #1712: "The Hidden Heat Sensor in a Dog's Nose" – Dogs repeatedly choose one of two identical targets after researchers control visual and scent cues.…
Jul 12, 2026 · 1:39
Interesting Things with JC #1711: "Why McDonald's Coke Tastes Different" – McDonald's serves Coca-Cola using refrigerated stainless steel syrup tanks, insulated delivery lines,…
Jul 11, 2026 · 2:19
Interesting Things with JC #1710: "The First New Blue in 200 Years" – Chemists heating a mixture of metal oxides for a magnetism experiment watched it cool into a vivid blue…
Jul 10, 2026 · 2:10
Interesting Things with JC #1709: "A Yard of Flightline" – A new Air Force airman is sent to pick up a routine item, but every office on the base insists someone else has it.…
Jul 9, 2026 · 2:47
Interesting Things with JC #1708: "The System That Made Blood Banking Scalable" – Blood donations begin moving through a standardized collection and distribution system instead…
Jul 8, 2026 · 2:22
Interesting Things with JC #1707: "The Greeting Card Cure" – Millions of greeting cards keep arriving for a boy who recovered decades ago after a chain letter spread worldwide,…
Jul 7, 2026 · 2:59
Interesting Things with JC #1706: "John Smeaton - The Hero of Glasgow"– A baggage handler runs toward a burning Jeep after it crashes into Glasgow Airport and joins travelers,…
Jul 6, 2026 · 3:40
Interesting Things with JC #1705: "Tara Westover, the Girl Who Taught Herself to Study" – Tara Westover opened an algebra book to prepare for the ACT even though she had never…
Jul 5, 2026 · 2:56
Interesting Things with JC #1704: "Lincoln Wasn't the Only Target" – John Wilkes Booth killed President Abraham Lincoln while three other assassins moved against Vice President…
Jul 4, 2026 · 3:33
Interesting Things with JC #1703: "250 Years of the United States of America" – On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration of Independence and ordered…
Jul 3, 2026 · 3:09
Interesting Things with JC #1702: "July 3rd, 1776 - The Message Had to Be Perfect" – Congress was rewriting Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence after the colonies had…
Jul 2, 2026 · 3:19
Interesting Things with JC #1701: " July 2, 1776 - The Day the Decision Was Made" – Congress was already directing a war against Great Britain while still debating whether the…
Jul 1, 2026 · 2:33
Interesting Things with JC #1700: "Patriotism" – Americans keep serving the same country while disagreeing over what patriotism requires, and the debate has lasted from the…
Jun 30, 2026 · 8:05
Interesting Things with JC #1699: "Project Blue Book" – Air Force investigators keep collecting UFO reports as the unexplained cases refuse to disappear. Thousands receive…
Jun 29, 2026 · 7:07
Interesting Things with JC #1698: "Operation Mockingbird" – The CIA built relationships with journalists, funded publications, and treated information as a Cold War weapon, but…
Jun 28, 2026 · 6:10
Interesting Things with JC #1697: "Operation Popeye" – American aircraft flew directly into monsoon clouds and released silver iodide to increase rainfall over the Ho Chi Minh…
Jun 27, 2026 · 5:18
Interesting Things with JC #1696: "David Clayton-Thomas" – David Clayton-Thomas replaced Blood, Sweat & Tears' original singer just as the band's future was uncertain, and his…
Jun 26, 2026 · 3:59
Interesting Things with JC #1695: "The Berlin Airlift - Keeping a City Alive" – Cargo planes keep landing in a city sealed off by every road, rail line, and canal as thousands of…
Jun 25, 2026 · 2:54
Interesting Things with JC #1694: "27 Distinct Emotional Categories" – Researchers analyzed 27,000 emotional responses and found that human emotions did not fit a few basic…
Jun 24, 2026 · 2:46
Interesting Things with JC #1693: "HAL5 and the Space Settlement Movement" – Engineers and space enthusiasts in Huntsville kept meeting to discuss permanent human settlements in…
Jun 23, 2026 · 8:05
Interesting Things with JC #1692: "Frank Gardiner Wisner" – Frank Wisner watched Soviet influence replace German influence in Romania while World War II was still being fought,…
Jun 22, 2026 · 2:52
Interesting Things with JC #1691: "The Silence Beyond Redshift" – A spacecraft continues receiving messages from Earth while the signals arrive slower, weaker, and increasingly…
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