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1310: "Can Your Eyes Predict How Long You’ll Live?"
Episode 1310
Interesting Things with JC #1310: "Can Your Eyes Predict How Long You’ll Live?" – They don’t just show how you feel, they may show how you’re aging. …
9 months, 1 week ago
1309: "The Cornea That Turned to Cone"
Episode 1309
Interesting Things with JC #1309: "The Cornea That Turned to Cone" – It starts with a blur. One eye, then the other, bends the world into chaos. Than…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
1308: "Hyperion"
Episode 1308
Interesting Things with JC #1308: "Hyperion" – Deep in a fog-drenched forest, a 379-foot redwood reaches the edge of biology’s limits. But getting cl…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
1307: "The Device That Proved We Don’t See With Our Eyes"
Episode 1307
Interesting Things with JC #1307: "The Device That Proved We Don’t See With Our Eyes" – In the 1970s, two devices changed how we understand vision, n…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
1306: "Cocoa and Cancer"
Episode 1306
Interesting Things with JC #1306: "Cocoa and Cancer" – Before war, Aztecs drank it. Now, scientists study it. High-cocoa chocolate may do more than t…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
1305: "Pozzolanic Concrete"
Episode 1305
Interesting Things with JC #1305: "Pozzolanic Concrete" – In Roman hands, ash became architecture. Beneath harbors and inside domes, this ancient con…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
1304: "Astigmatism Lens Flares"
Episode 1304
Interesting Things with JC #1304: "Astigmatism Lens Flares" – At night, a single headlight can turn into a firework. What you see may not be the road…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
1303: "Clock It"
Episode 1303
Interesting Things with JC #1303: "Clock It" – A phrase that started on the stopwatch now signals everything from impact to instinct. What does it re…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
1302: "The Man Who Controlled a Computer with His Mind"
Episode 1302
Interesting Things with JC #1302: "The Man Who Controlled a Computer with His Mind" – A man paralyzed from the neck down typed with thought alone. Wh…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
1301: "Marilyn Monroe"
Episode 1301
Interesting Things with JC #1301: "Marilyn Monroe" – She was born unnamed in a charity ward and died a global icon. Between them: factories, fame, an…
9 months, 3 weeks ago