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1255: "Fire from Ice"
Episode 1255
Interesting Things with JC #1255: "Fire from Ice" – You’re stranded in the cold, with nothing but a chunk of ice, and somehow, that’s enough to survive. Refraction, focus, and fire from frozen water.
Published on 8 months ago
1254: "The Cost Beneath Our Feet"
Episode 1254
Interesting Things with JC #1254: "The Cost Beneath Our Feet" – What happens when history is inconvenient? Across highways, housing tracts, and football fields, the dead have been displaced and digni…
Published on 8 months ago
1253: "What is a Burl?"
Episode 1253
Interesting Things with JC #1253: "What is a Burl?" – They look like tumors on trees, but inside, something astonishing is happening. Burls are born from trauma, yet transform into natural masterpiec…
Published on 8 months ago
1252: "April 14th, 1939, The Book That Brought America to Its Knees"
Episode 1252
Interesting Things with JC #1252: "April 14th, 1939, The Book That Brought America to Its Knees" – One novel. Five months. And a country that never saw it coming. On April 14th, 1939, John Steinbeck …
Published on 8 months ago
1251: "The Gene That Won’t Let Go"
Episode 1251
Interesting Things with JC #1251: "The Gene That Won’t Let Go" – What happens when nature stops choosing and we start writing the rules? A gene that refuses to vanish may reshape every wild thing we …
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
1250: "Great Loop Boating"
Episode 1250
Interesting Things with JC #1250: "Great Loop Boating" – It’s not a race, it’s a rhythm. Across 7,500 miles of rivers, canals, and coastlines, the Great Loop offers a journey where tide, patience, an…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
1249: "What is a Carpenters Board Stretcher?"
Episode 1249
Interesting Things with JC #1249: "What is a Carpenters Board Stretcher?" – Carpentry doesn’t forgive shortcuts, and neither does experience.
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
1248: "Mahuffer – Wurst Place on the Beech!"
Episode 1248
Interesting Things with JC #1248: "Mahuffer – Wurst Place on the Beech!" – It started as a joke and became a legend. A bar where nothing is finished, everything is broken, and somehow…it’s perfect. T…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
1247: "The Mathematics Behind Music Theory"
Episode 1247
Interesting Things with JC #1247: "The Mathematics Behind Music Theory" – Before notes had names or music had rules, harmony was already written in numbers. Explore how math shaped every sound you’ve…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
1246: "The Notes in Ricky’s Pocket"
Episode 1246
Interesting Things with JC #1246: "The Notes in Ricky’s Pocket" – They were found on a dead man with no ID. Thirty lines of strange letters. No pattern. No key. No solution. And still, two decades la…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago