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1694: "27 Distinct Emotional Categories"
Episode 1694
Interesting Things with JC #1694: "27 Distinct Emotional Categories" – Researchers analyzed 27,000 emotional responses and found that human emotions …
2 months, 1 week ago
1693: "HAL5 and the Space Settlement Movement"
Episode 1693
Interesting Things with JC #1693: "HAL5 and the Space Settlement Movement" – Engineers and space enthusiasts in Huntsville kept meeting to discuss pe…
2 months, 1 week ago
1692: "Frank Gardiner Wisner"
Episode 1692
Interesting Things with JC #1692: "Frank Gardiner Wisner" – Frank Wisner watched Soviet influence replace German influence in Romania while World War…
2 months, 1 week ago
1691: "The Silence Beyond Redshift"
Episode 1691
Interesting Things with JC #1691: "The Silence Beyond Redshift" – A spacecraft continues receiving messages from Earth while the signals arrive slowe…
2 months, 1 week ago
1690: "The Legendary Saab Convertible"
Episode 1690
Interesting Things with JC #1690: "The Legendary Saab Convertible" – Saab engineers were reinforcing a convertible for winter driving while much of t…
2 months, 1 week ago
1689: "Mt. Elbrus"
Episode 1689
Interesting Things with JC #1689: "Mt. Elbrus" – A mountain once imagined as the center of the cosmos later became a wartime propaganda symbol and is…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
1688: "A Simple Riddle 15"
Episode 1688
Interesting Things with JC #1688: "A Simple Riddle 15" – A simple riddle has a simple answer, but most people still miss it. Can you solve today's ri…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
1687: "Can Quantum Tunneling be Observed?"
Episode 1687
Interesting Things with JC #1687: "Can Quantum Tunneling be Observed?" – Electrons pass through barriers they do not have enough energy to cross, and…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
1686: "M.C. Escher"
Episode 1686
Interesting Things with JC #1686: "M.C. Escher" – An artist fills a page with shapes that fit perfectly together, then turns them into staircases, wa…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
1685: "Lisa del Giocondo"
Episode 1685
Interesting Things with JC #1685: "Lisa del Giocondo" – Leonardo da Vinci is painting a merchant’s wife when the commission stops behaving like a com…
2 months, 2 weeks ago