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1775: "The Signal Einstein Thought We Might Never Hear"
Episode 1775
Interesting Things with JC #1775: "The Signal Einstein Thought We Might Never Hear" – Two LIGO detectors register the same gravitational-wave signal …
1 month, 1 week ago
1774: "Uncle Sam Day"
Episode 1774
Interesting Things with JC #1774: "Uncle Sam Day" – Samuel Wilson is supplying beef to American troops in barrels marked “U.S.” when people begin con…
1 month, 1 week ago
1773: "The Clock Behind Instant Replay"
Episode 1773
Interesting Things with JC #1773: "The Clock Behind Instant Replay" – Two instant-replay feeds showing the same moment can reach officials millisecon…
1 month, 1 week ago
1772: "Staten Island Remembers"
Episode 1772
Interesting Things with JC #1772: "Staten Island Remembers" – At Staten Island’s Postcards memorial, 274 individual plaques face across New York Harb…
1 month, 1 week ago
1771: "Debut of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
Episode 1771
Interesting Things with JC #1771: "Debut of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" - The original Fresh Prince theme was much longer. In the video for the open…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1770: "When a Parasite Rewires Behavior to Spread Itself"
Episode 1770
Interesting Things with JC #1770: "When a Parasite Rewires Behavior to Spread Itself" – Infected Texas field crickets were sterile or producing barel…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1769: "Football Brain Injury Cover Up"
Episode 1769
Interesting Things with JC #1769: "Football Brain Injury Cover Up" – Dr. Bennet Omalu found CTE in Mike Webster’s brain, and the NFL’s concussion com…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1768: "The Science of Jealousy"
Episode 1768
Interesting Things with JC #1768: "The Science of Jealousy" – Jealousy can fire before there is proof: attention shifts, suspicion locks in, and the …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1767: "The Spider-Man of Paris"
Episode 1767
Interesting Things with JC #1767: "The Spider-Man of Paris" – A four-year-old boy hangs from a fourth-floor balcony in Paris. Mamoudou Gassama climbs…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
1766: "Autistici/Inventati - The Network Behind the Network"
Episode 1766
Interesting Things with JC #1766: "Autistici/Inventati - The Network Behind the Network" – Autistici/Inventati runs encrypted email, private chats, w…
1 month, 2 weeks ago