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1661: "The Earth's Core is Younger than its Surface"
Episode 1661
Interesting Things with JC #1661: "The Earth's Core is Younger than its Surface" – A clock at Earth’s core runs slightly slower than a clock on the s…
14 hours ago
1660: "The Adams Event"
Episode 1600
Interesting Things with JC #1660: "The Adams Event" – A 42,000-year-old kauri tree held a carbon record from the Laschamps Excursion, when Earth’s ma…
1 day, 14 hours ago
1659: "Overmodulating the Carrier"
Episode 1659
Interesting Things with JC #1659: "Overmodulating the Carrier" – WMEX engineers pushed AM modulation to the edge so the station sounded louder and de…
2 days, 14 hours ago
1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus"
Episode 1658
Interesting Things with JC #1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus" – NASA engineers studied a crewed airship that would float above Venus instead of lan…
3 days, 14 hours ago
1657: "The Stonefly of British Columbia"
Episode 1657
Interesting Things with JC #1657: "The Stonefly of British Columbia" – Stonefly nymphs cling to rocks in cold British Columbia rivers while scientist…
4 days, 14 hours ago
1656: "Antimatter Propulsion"
Episode 1656
Interesting Things with JC #1656: "Antimatter Propulsion" – Antimatter destroys normal matter on contact and converts mass directly into energy, but …
5 days, 14 hours ago
1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators"
Episode 1655
Interesting Things with JC #1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators" – A muon forms high above Earth and should decay before reaching the ground…
6 days, 14 hours ago
1654: "Fusion Propulsion"
Episode 1654
Interesting Things with JC #1654: "Fusion Propulsion" – A spacecraft engine tries to push plasma at hundreds of kilometers per second while no normal…
1 week ago
1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists"
Episode 1653
Interesting Things with JC #1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists" – Harvard researchers published papers that downplayed sugar’s possible lin…
1 week, 1 day ago
1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment"
Episode 1652
Interesting Things with JC #1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment" – Facebook changed the News Feeds of nearly 690,000 users to test wheth…
1 week, 2 days ago