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1770: "When a Parasite Rewires Behavior to Spread Itself"
Episode 1770
Interesting Things with JC #1770: "When a Parasite Rewires Behavior to Spread Itself" – Infected Texas field crickets were sterile or producing barel…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1769: "Football Brain Injury Cover Up"
Episode 1769
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 com…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1768: "The Science of Jealousy"
Episode 1768
Interesting Things with JC #1768: "The Science of Jealousy" – Jealousy can fire before there is proof: attention shifts, suspicion locks in, and the …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1767: "The Spider-Man of Paris"
Episode 1767
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…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1766: "Autistici/Inventati - The Network Behind the Network"
Episode 1766
Interesting Things with JC #1766: "Autistici/Inventati - The Network Behind the Network" – Autistici/Inventati runs encrypted email, private chats, w…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1765: "The FBI Surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr."
Episode 1765
Interesting Things with JC #1765: "The FBI Surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr." – The FBI wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr. without a criminal cha…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1764: "The Treaty of Paris"
Episode 1764
Interesting Things with JC #1764: "The Treaty of Paris" – Britain signs the Treaty of Paris recognizing all thirteen American states as “free soverei…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1763: "Looking for Quantum Gravity with Light"
Episode 1763
Interesting Things with JC #1763: "Looking for Quantum Gravity with Light" – Scientists are firing lasers through interferometers to detect quantum g…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1762: "The Man Who Guarded the Skies During the Cold War"
Episode 1762
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 …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
1761: "At the Space-Time Limit"
Episode 1761
Interesting Things with JC #1761: "At the Space-Time Limit" – In 2026, researchers measured an electron moving through a barrier in less than a femto…
1 month, 4 weeks ago