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1570: "Snake Oil: Why Smart People Still Buy It"
Episode 1570
Interesting Things with JC #1570: "Snake Oil: Why Smart People Still Buy It" – A bottle. A bold promise. A line of believers. Snake oil was never jus…
1 month ago
1569: "Polyphonic Perception"
Episode 1569
Interesting Things with JC #1569: "Polyphonic Perception" – Four voices sing at once. You can follow each one. That is not a talent. It is how human …
1 month ago
1568: "Ski Mountaineering"
Episode 1568
Interesting Things with JC #1568: "Ski Mountaineering" – Before sunrise in the Alps, headlamps move uphill in silence. No lifts. No engines. Just lun…
1 month ago
1567: "The Reverend Jesse Jackson & Progressive Supranuclear Palsy"
Episode 1567
Interesting Things with JC #1567: "The Reverend Jesse Jackson & Progressive Supranuclear Palsy" – He marched with Dr. King. He ran for president. He …
1 month ago
1566: "Smokey Robinson"
Episode 1566
Interesting Things with JC #1566: "Smokey Robinson" – Before Motown had a sound, it had a poet. From a small Detroit studio to thousands of songs tha…
1 month ago
1565: "Robert Duvall"
Episode 1565
Interesting Things with JC #1565: "Robert Duvall" – From the stillness of Boo Radley to the authority of Kilgore and the hard earned humility of Mac …
1 month ago
1564: "China's Hypersonic Threat"
Episode 1564
Interesting Things with JC #1564: "China's Hypersonic Threat" – For most of American history, oceans meant time. At Mach 10, a thousand miles can dis…
1 month ago
1563: "Mach 5 - Battlefield Dominance"
Episode 1563
Interesting Things with JC #1563: "Mach 5 - Battlefield Dominance" – At five times the speed of sound, war becomes a race against minutes. Hypersonic…
1 month, 1 week ago
1562: "The Helios Laser"
Episode 1562
Interesting Things with JC #1562: "The Helios Laser" – A $4 million missile… or a beam of light. On the deck of USS Preble, the U.S. Navy flipped the…
1 month, 1 week ago
1561: "Saint Valentine"
Episode 1561
Interesting Things with JC #1561: "Saint Valentine" – A third-century execution along a Roman road becomes a feast day, a medieval poem, and billions…
1 month, 1 week ago