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1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus"
Episode 1658
Interesting Things with JC #1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus" – NASA engineers studied a crewed airship that would float above Venus instead of lan…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
1657: "The Stonefly of British Columbia"
Episode 1657
Interesting Things with JC #1657: "The Stonefly of British Columbia" – Stonefly nymphs cling to rocks in cold British Columbia rivers while scientist…
2 months ago
1656: "Antimatter Propulsion"
Episode 1656
Interesting Things with JC #1656: "Antimatter Propulsion" – Antimatter destroys normal matter on contact and converts mass directly into energy, but …
2 months ago
1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators"
Episode 1655
Interesting Things with JC #1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators" – A muon forms high above Earth and should decay before reaching the ground…
2 months ago
1654: "Fusion Propulsion"
Episode 1654
Interesting Things with JC #1654: "Fusion Propulsion" – A spacecraft engine tries to push plasma at hundreds of kilometers per second while no normal…
2 months ago
1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists"
Episode 1653
Interesting Things with JC #1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists" – Harvard researchers published papers that downplayed sugar’s possible lin…
2 months ago
1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment"
Episode 1652
Interesting Things with JC #1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment" – Facebook changed the News Feeds of nearly 690,000 users to test wheth…
2 months ago
1651: "The NERVA Program"
Episode 1651
Interesting Things with JC #1651: "The NERVA Program" – A rocket engine fires in the Nevada desert without burning fuel the normal way, and a uranium…
2 months ago
1650: "Ion Drives"
Episode 1650
Interesting Things with JC #1650: "Ion Drives" – An engine produces less force than a postcard weighs, yet it keeps pushing a spacecraft across billi…
2 months, 1 week ago
1649: "Ernst Stuhlinger"
Episode 1649
Interesting Things with JC #1649: "Ernst Stuhlinger" – A NASA engineer answers a nun asking why Mars missions matter while people are starving on Ear…
2 months, 1 week ago