Podcast Episodes

1679: "The Fermi Paradox: Why Haven't We Found Anyone?"

Episode 1679

Interesting Things with JC #1679: "The Fermi Paradox: Why Haven't We Found Anyone?" – The Milky Way contains billions of stars and planets, and many …

8 hours ago

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1678: "The Formal Study of ESP"

Episode 1678

Interesting Things with JC #1678: "The Formal Study of ESP" – A Duke University student is identifying symbols on hidden cards without seeing them, h…

1 day, 8 hours ago

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1677: "The Benben Stone"

Episode 1677

Interesting Things with JC #1677: "The Benben Stone" – A sacred stone once stood at the center of Egypt’s solar temple, marking the place where creat…

2 days, 8 hours ago

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1676: "Thomas Sowell"

Episode 1676

Interesting Things with JC #1676: "Thomas Sowell" – A young government economist studies labor conditions in Puerto Rico and finds that policies desi…

3 days, 8 hours ago

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1675: "The Green Children of Woolpit"

Episode 1675

Interesting Things with JC #1675: "The Green Children of Woolpit" – Two green-skinned children appear beside the wolf pits in Woolpit speaking an unk…

4 days, 8 hours ago

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1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials"

Episode 1674

Interesting Things with JC #1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials" – A recorded message keeps playing for up to 20 hours a day while p…

5 days, 8 hours ago

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1673: "There Is No Universal Now

Episode 1673

Interesting Things with JC #1673: "There Is No Universal Now" – A star 100 light-years away is doing something at this moment, but observers moving a…

6 days, 8 hours ago

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1672: "Magnetism is a Relativistic Force"

Episode 1672

Interesting Things with JC #1672: "Magnetism is a Relativistic Force" – A current-carrying wire stays electrically neutral on a table while a moving …

1 week ago

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1671: "What Is the L2 Point?"

Episode 1671

Interesting Things with JC #1671: "What Is the L2 Point?" – A mathematician identified a location in space in 1772 where gravity keeps spacecraft mov…

1 week, 1 day ago

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1670: "Napster"

Episode 1670

Interesting Things with JC #1670: "Napster" – On June 1, 1999, Shawn Fanning releases Napster, and within months college students are searching each …

1 week, 2 days ago

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