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1714: "When Gut Bacteria Escape"
Episode 1714
Interesting Things with JC #1714: "When Gut Bacteria Escape" – Bacteroides fragilis lives normally inside the colon until the intestinal wall breaks …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1713: "How Do You Catch Legionnaires' Disease?"
Episode 1713
Interesting Things with JC #1713: "How Do You Catch Legionnaires' Disease?" – Fifty-four people are diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease in two Manha…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1712: "The Hidden Heat Sensor in a Dog's Nose"
Episode 1712
Interesting Things with JC #1712: "The Hidden Heat Sensor in a Dog's Nose" – Dogs repeatedly choose one of two identical targets after researchers co…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1711: "Why McDonald's Coke Tastes Different"
Episode 1711
Interesting Things with JC #1711: "Why McDonald's Coke Tastes Different" – McDonald's serves Coca-Cola using refrigerated stainless steel syrup tanks…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1710: "The First New Blue in 200 Years"
Episode 1710
Interesting Things with JC #1710: "The First New Blue in 200 Years" – Chemists heating a mixture of metal oxides for a magnetism experiment watched i…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1709: "A Yard of Flightline"
Episode 1709
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 ins…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1708: "The System That Made Blood Banking Scalable"
Episode 1708
Interesting Things with JC #1708: "The System That Made Blood Banking Scalable" – Blood donations begin moving through a standardized collection and …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1707: "The Greeting Card Cure"
Episode 1707
Interesting Things with JC #1707: "The Greeting Card Cure" – Millions of greeting cards keep arriving for a boy who recovered decades ago after a cha…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1706: "John Smeaton - The Hero of Glasgow"
Episode 1706
Interesting Things with JC #1706: "John Smeaton - The Hero of Glasgow"– A baggage handler runs toward a burning Jeep after it crashes into Glasgow Ai…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
1705: "Tara Westover, the Girl Who Taught Herself to Study"
Episode 1705
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…
1 month, 4 weeks ago