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Interesting Things with JC — 413 episodes

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1748: "Follow the Leader"

2

1747: "Davy Crockett Before the Legend"

3

1746: "Julie Newmar"

4

1745: "The Wow! Signal"

5

1744: "The Lemon Juice Heist"

6

1743: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect"

7

1742: "The Milk Hill Spiral"

8

1741: "The Night Hip-Hop Was Born"

9

1740: "Forty Six and 2"

10

1739: "R&B in the Rain"

11

1738: "The Swiss Army Knife Parcel Hook"

12

1737: "Susan and Phil"

13

1736: "NFL Training Camp"

14

1735: "The SpaceX Rocket That Crashed on the Moon"

15

1734: "Tattoo Ink and Your Lymph Nodes"

16

1733: "Can Rams Get Brain Damage?"

17

1732: "Sir Bryan Thwaites - The Man Who Changed How We Learn Mathematics"

18

1731: "Mac's Drive-In”

19

1730: "Weed Zappers"

20

1729: "Project Skif: Russia's Seabed Nuclear Silos"

21

1728: "Little Italy"

22

1727: "The Pontic Mountains"

23

1726: "The Pontiac Banshee"

24

1725: "The King Who Invented an Invasion"

25

1724: "The History of Yo Mama Jokes"

26

1723: "Ancient Roman Laundry"

27

1722: "Does Hair Grow Back Thicker if You Shave It?"

28

1721: "The Naming of Cleveland"

29

1720: "The Name That Turned a City into a Canvas"

30

1719: "Drop D Tuning"

31

1718: "The Moment New York Set the Style"

32

1718: "Why Is There a Gap in the Toilet Seat?"

33

1716: "The Legendary Jim Kilts"

34

1715: "Hunny, Bunny, and the Twins Who Married the Twins"

35

1714: "When Gut Bacteria Escape"

36

1713: "How Do You Catch Legionnaires' Disease?"

37

1712: "The Hidden Heat Sensor in a Dog's Nose"

38

1711: "Why McDonald's Coke Tastes Different"

39

1710: "The First New Blue in 200 Years"

40

1709: "A Yard of Flightline"

41

1708: "The System That Made Blood Banking Scalable"

42

1707: "Craig Shergold and the Greeting Card Cure"

43

1706: "John Smeaton - The Hero of Glasgow"

44

1705: "Tara Westover - the Girl Who Taught Herself to Study"

45

1704: "Lincoln Wasn't the Only Target"

46

1703: "250 Years of the United States of America"

47

1702: "July 3rd, 1776 - The Message Had to Be Perfect"

48

1701: "July 2, 1776 - The Day the Decision Was Made"

49

1700: "Patriotism"

50

1699: "Project Blue Book"

51

1698: "Operation Mockingbird"

52

1697: "Operation Popeye"

53

1696: "David Clayton-Thomas"

54

1695: "The Berlin Airlift - Keeping a City Alive"

55

1694: "27 Distinct Emotional Categories"

56

1693: "HAL5 and the Space Settlement Movement"

57

1692: "Frank Gardiner Wisner"

58

1691: "The Silence Beyond Redshift"

59

1690: "The Legendary Saab Convertible"

60

1689: "Mt. Elbrus"

61

1688: "A Simple Riddle 15"

62

1687: "Can Quantum Tunneling be Observed?"

63

1686: "M.C. Escher"

64

1685: "Lisa del Giocondo"

65

1684: "Gene Shalit"

66

1683: "Is Jell-O Made from Horses?"

67

1682: "Sea Otters Hold Hands when they Sleep"

68

1681: "The Day After Disclosure: Humanity Already Has a Plan"

69

1680: "The Overview Effect: How Does a Cosmic Perspective Change Us?"

70

1679: "The Fermi Paradox: Why Haven't We Found Anyone?"

71

1678: "The Formal Study of ESP"

72

1677: "The Benben Stone"

73

1676: "Thomas Sowell"

74

1675: "The Green Children of Woolpit"

75

1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials"

76

1673: "There Is No Universal Now"

77

1672: "Magnetism is a Relativistic Force"

78

1671: "What Is the L2 Point?"

79

1670: "Napster"

80

1669: "The Rare Blue Moon"

81

1668: "History of the Stanley Cup"

82

1667: "Gold’s Color Comes from Relativity"

83

1666: "A Billion Seconds"

84

1665: "Grizz Chapman"

85

1664: "Rob Base"

86

1663: "Kyle Busch"

87

1662: "Ames Laboratory"

88

1661: "The Earth's Core is Younger than its Surface"

89

1660: "The Adams Event"

90

1659: "Overmodulating the Carrier"

91

1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus"

92

1657: "The Stonefly of British Columbia"

93

1656: "Antimatter Propulsion"

94

1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators"

95

1654: "Fusion Propulsion"

96

1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists"

97

1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment"

98

1651: "The NERVA Program"

99

1650: "Ion Drives"

100

1649: "Ernst Stuhlinger"

101

1648: "Why Are Manhole Covers Round?"

102

1647: "Fermilab"

103

1646: "Electrostatic Propulsion"

104

1645: "The Gulf of Tonkin"

105

1644: “Krafft Ehricke”

106

1643: “Why Are Stop Signs Octagons?”

107

1642: “Nedra Talley”

108

1641: "Operation Northwoods"

109

1640: "David Allan Coe"

110

1639: "Eberhard Rees"

111

1638: "Route 66 Turns 100"

112

1637: “Norbert aka Tony Pork”

113

1636: "AM Radio as the Last Mass-Mind Medium"

114

1634: "Chernobyl Explodes and Igor Khiryak Goes Back In"

115

1633: "Alfred Adler & Happiness"

116

1632: "Double Slit Experiment at the Quantum Level"

117

1631: "We Stopped Talking Without Noticing"

118

1630: "The 392 HEMI"

119

1629: "The Sacking of the Libraries of Alexandria and Cleopatra"

120

1628: "Shooting Drones with an F-35"

121

1627: "British Columbia Tree Seed Centre"

122

1626: "Can You Hear Electricity?"

123

1625: "Radiation Experiments on Civilians"

124

1624: "Cord Meyer"

125

1623: "The Whiskey Rebellion and the Power to Tax"

126

1622: "The Morgan Horse"

127

1621: "The Blue Room"

128

1620: "The Danger of Media Spin"

129

1619: "Deer Island"

130

1618: "Signals Intelligence in Commercial Radio"

131

1617: "Catfish Have Venom"

132

1616: “Robins Island"

133

1615: "Why Dogs Can't Have Chocolate"

134

1614: "Lunar Sphere of Influence"

135

1613: "Victor Glover Jr.”

136

1612: "Artemis Doesn’t Have a Fridge"

137

1611: "Who Is Bob Lazar?"

138

1610: "Hidden Toxins, Wasted Money, True Longevity: The Subtraction Revolution"

139

1609: "What If the Earth Actually Doesn’t Spin?"

140

1608: "Inside a Patriot Battery"

141

1607: "Why Do You Itch?"

142

1606: "Louise Fitzpatrick: The Only Student of Albert Pinkham Ryder"

143

1605: "The Complexity of Midair Refueling"

144

1604: "What Is Time Dilation?"

145

1603: "Remembering Ted Nichols"

146

1602: "Redstone Arsenal"

147

1601: "Muhammad Ali vs. Chuck Wepner"

148

1600: "Wernher von Braun"

149

1599: "Remembering Chuck Norris"

150

1598: "Lewis Latimer and the Globe-Supporter for Electric Lamps"

151

1597: "Albert Pinkham Ryder"

152

1596: "Vanessa Williams: The Crown That Came Back"

153

1595: "How Hard It Is to Fly a Stealth Bomber for 44 Hours"

154

1594: "America’s First St. Patrick’s Day Wasn’t Where You Think"

155

1593: "USS Pickerel"

156

1592: "Three's Company"

157

1591: "The NIKE Site Hidden in the Woods Near Orchard Park"

158

1590: "The Penn Dixie Fossil Site"

159

1589: "Nathan Detroit"

160

1588: "Sarah Brown"

161

1587: "Sky Masterson"

162

1586: "The Crap Game That Cleaned Up Broadway"

163

1585: "Lake Warren"

164

1584: "The Hafele–Keating Experiment"

165

1583: "Why Having a Dog Makes You a Better Person"

166

1582: "Remembering Lou Holtz"

167

1581: "The Central–Mid-Levels Escalator"

168

1580: "Camp Century"

169

1579: "Dorsey’s Art Gallery and the Man Who Opened the Door"

170

1578: Neil Sedaka

171

1577: "Thin Mints"

172

1576: "Barbara Ann and the Accidental Hit"

173

1575: "Joni Eareckson Tada: Paralyzed at Seventeen"

174

1574: "Milli Vanilli and the Sound of Silence"

175

1573: "Levi Strauss"

176

1572: "Is Matter an Illusion?"

177

1571: "What Loss Leaves Behind"

178

1570: "Snake Oil: Why Smart People Still Buy It"

179

1569: "Polyphonic Perception"

180

1568: "Ski Mountaineering"

181

1567: "The Reverend Jesse Jackson & Progressive Supranuclear Palsy"

182

1566: "Smokey Robinson"

183

1565: "Robert Duvall"

184

1564: "China's Hypersonic Threat"

185

1563: "Mach 5 - Battlefield Dominance"

186

1562: "The Helios Laser"

187

1561: "Saint Valentine"

188

1560: “The 3 Squeeze Rule

189

1559: "What is Love?"

190

1558: "Eye Contact and Tight Hugs"

191

1557: "Cessna 210"

192

1556: "Paul Laurence Dunbar"

193

1555: "Project Nobska"

194

1554: “Radio Signals from Pluto”

195

1553: “Curling - Mixed Doubles”

196

1552: "Milano Cortina"

197

1551: “Birthplace of the Winter Olympics – Chamonix 1924 to Beijing 2022”

198

1550: “Hákarl”

199

1549: "February 2, 1876: Start of the MLB"

200

1548: "Sly Dunbar"

201

1547: "John Archibald Wheeler and the Words That Shaped the Universe"

202

1546: "Emotional Invalidation"

203

1545: "The Eltanin Antenna"

204

1544: "Vivipary"

205

1543: "John Deere and the Problem of Plowing Blind"

206

1542: "Simple Riddle 14"

207

1541: "Taipei 101"

208

1540: "Choosing to Receive"

209

1539: "Soviet Volga Transmitters"

210

1538: "Dundurn Castle Hamilton"

211

1537: "Heavy Whipping Cream”

212

1536: "Getting Stuck on the Highway in a Blizzard"

213

1535: "Why We Remember - MLK Day"

214

1534: "The Henry Plant Museum"

215

1533: "What Is Returned – The Story of Thomas Westerhaus"

216

1532: "Wasabi or Horseradish?"

217

1531: "People Who Lie Without Knowing They’re Lying"

218

1530: "What Is Boom Bap?"

219

1529: "Platypus"

220

1528: "Metacognition"

221

1527: "The Golden Child"

222

1526: "Radio Swan"

223

1525: "The Trial of Joan of Arc"

224

1524: "Ratification of the 11th Amendment (1798)"

225

1523: "Manganese"

226

1522: "Project Echo"

227

1521: “Itzhak Bentov and Consciousness”

228

1520: "What is a Surge Wrasse Fish?"

229

1519: "Can Dogs Eat Bones?"

230

1518: "The Original Alien Soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith"

231

1517: "Austin’s Coffee Crafters"

232

1516: "When New Year’s Eve Finally Changed Television"

233

1515: "Brigitte Bardot"

234

1514: "Artificial Photosynthesis"

235

1513: "What Makes Cheese Sharp?"

236

1512: "Learned Helplessness"

237

1511: "Faith No More – Midlife Crisis"

238

1510: "Jesus Outside the Bible"

239

1509: "Christmas Eve, Earthrise"

240

1508: “The Log That Gave Gifts”

241

1507: "The Orange in the Stocking"

242

1506: "Eating the Top Tier of the Wedding Cake”

243

1505: "Misheard Lyrics"

244

1504: "The NCAA Football Playoff Bracket"

245

1503: "Gravity and Heavy Energy"

246

1502: “The World’s Largest Pinecone Isn’t What You Think”

247

1501: "When Metal Touches Metal in Space"

248

1500: "James Brown - Inmate 155413"

249

1499: "Dance Hall Days"

250

1498: "The History of Hot Tubs"

251

1497: "French Fries"

252

1496: "The Mysterious Death of Sam Cooke"

253

1495: “The Grand Island Bridges - 90 Years of Steel and the People Who Took Care of It”

254

1494: "What Is Auracast and How Does It Work?"

255

1493: "Donald Ewen Cameron"

256

1492: “10,000 Days – Wings for Marie”

257

1491: "Judith – A Perfect Circle"

258

1490: "What Are Moop Eyes?"

259

1489: "Audemars Piguet Royal Oak 5402"

260

1488: "Cold Showers and Ice Baths"

261

1487: "The Laurel Run Mine Fire"

262

1486: "December"

263

1485: "Professor Abel Wolman"

264

1484: "Indoor Plumbing"

265

1483: "100 Years of the Grand Ole Opry"

266

1482: "The First Thanksgiving Game"

267

1481: "The Real History Behind Eleven"

268

1480: "Nina Sergeyevna Kulagina"

269

1479: "The Montauk Project"

270

1478: "Sensory Deprivation"

271

1477: "Telekinesis"

272

1476: "Do Dogs Sweat?"

273

1475: "Coriolis Effect Explained"

274

1474: "Do Hard Things"

275

1473: "Can a Thought Move Faster than Light?"

276

1472: "Rumi and Poetry"

277

1471: "The Importance of Alpha and Gamma Brainwaves"

278

1470: "Forbidden City, Beijing"

279

1469: "Subjectivity and Judging"

280

1468: "The Hobbit of Flores"

281

1467: "History of the Electricians Wire Stretcher"

282

1466: "What is a Veteran?"

283

1465: "250 Years of the Marine Corps"

284

1464: "NCO vs Officer"

285

1463: "The Red Ball Express"

286

1462: "Cream City Brick"

287

1461: "Inside the Black Hole We Call Home"

288

1460: "Katharine Story: The Designer Who Trusted Her Eye Over Tradition"

289

1459: "The Woman Who Danced Between Two Worlds"

290

1458: "How a Wardrobe Malfunction Invented the Modern Bra"

291

1457: "The 1492 Ensisheim Meteor"

292

1456: "The Invention of the Time Zone"

293

1455: "The Houdini Séance"

294

1454: "The Sordid History of Black Cats"

295

1453: "Bear Lake Monster"

296

1452: "Okapi – The African Unicorn"

297

1451: "The Dancing Plague of 1518"

298

1450: "The Alkonost"

299

1449: "The Encantado"

300

1448: "Fall Foliage"

301

1447: "The Invention That Rewired the World"

302

1446: "Transmitting Electricity Through the Air"

303

1445: "Ace Frehley"

304

1444: "The Plane Crash that Changed Music Forever"

305

1443: "Carbon Fiber"

306

1442: "Albrecht Dürer"

307

1441: "A Simple Riddle 13"

308

1440: “Start of the Cuban Missile Crisis”

309

1439: "Shenzhou 5 – China’s First Human Spaceflight"

310

1438: "Diane Keaton"

311

1437: "The Silkworm"

312

1436: "Quantum Entanglement – Spooky Action at a Distance"

313

1435: “The Tiny Sausages of Nuremberg”

314

1434: "Thelonious Monk and the Shape of Modern Jazz"

315

1433: "The James Webb Space Telescope"

316

1432: "The Lowell Observatory"

317

1431: "Viewing 3I/ATLAS from Mars"

318

1430: "Richard Dedekind Redefining Number Theory"

319

1429: "Alternate and Special Uniforms in the NFL"

320

1428: "Jane Goodall"

321

1427: "GPS Trackers on Birds"

322

1426: "The Tunnel of Whiteface Mountain"

323

1425: "The Steam That Moved a Nation"

324

1424: "The Mustang"

325

1423: "Three Kings Kaikomako"

326

1422: "What the Garden Gives Back"

327

1421: "Carbonated Soda"

328

1420: "Vanta Black"

329

1419: "Stanislaw Petrow"

330

1418: "What is Leucovorin?"

331

1417: "Dr. Green’s Light"

332

1416: "Water on Mars"

333

1415: "The 21st Night of September"

334

1414: "The Real Castles and Lands of Game of Thrones"

335

1413: "Rods, Cones, and Blindness"

336

1412: "Robert Redford"

337

1411: "Acoustic Shadows"

338

1410: "White Corn vs. Yellow Corn Chips"

339

1409: "The Hidden Patterns of Statistics"

340

1408: "The Imperial Castle"

341

1407: "What is a Reddit Kid?"

342

1406: "The British Lion"

343

1405: "Tropical Waves"

344

1404: "The Amateur Radio Operators of 9/11"

345

1403: "September 10th, 2001"

346

1402: "Keithroy Maynard"

347

1401: "Dorothy Dandridge"

348

1400: "The Blood Moon"

349

1399: "Giorgio Armani"

350

1398: "American Paint Horse"

351

1397: "What is a Florida Ounce?"

352

1396: "An Animal Lying on the Side of the Road Probably Isn’t Sick or Napping"

353

1395: "September 2nd - The Beginning and the End"

354

1394: "The Great Barrington UFO Encounter of 1969"

355

1393: "Mary Ann Nichols: The First Victim of Jack the Ripper"

356

1392: "What is Calculus"

357

1391: "Sauerkraut Balls"

358

1390: "Dr. Joseph Murphy"

359

1389: "Krakatoa"

360

1388: "How are Fossils Made?"

361

1387: "Northwest Mountain Rose Apples"

362

1386: "Water Can Boil and Freeze at the Same Time"

363

1385: "Judge Frank Caprio"

364

1384: "Does Black Paint Make Metal Hotter"

365

1383: "Hawaii, the 50th Star"

366

1382: "Lazy Pierogi"

367

1381: "Terence Stamp"

368

1380: "The Battery that Refuses to Die"

369

1379: "The Tunnel That Never Thaws"

370

1378: "The Brazilian Current"

371

1377: "Explosive Pancake Batter of WWII"

372

1376: "Explosive Pancake Batter"

373

1375: "The Piri Reis Map"

374

1374: "Dragon Man - A Face from the Human Past"

375

1373: "Betelgeuse – The Unsteady Giant"

376

1372: "James Lovell - Commander of Apollo 13"

377

1371: "Bookless Library"

378

1370: "Fly Fishing"

379

1369: "Purple Heart Day"

380

1368: "The Truth About Glass"

381

1367: "Loni Anderson"

382

1366: "Today Is a Great Day!”

383

1365: "Heterochromia"

384

1364: "What is the Cryospheric Process?"

385

1363: "Does the Past Still Exist?"

386

1362: "The Man Who Betrayed Washington"

387

1361: "The Metric Crescent Wrench"

388

1360: "Invisible Ink"

389

1359: "The Runit Dome"

390

1358: "George ‘Fiji’ Veikoso"

391

1357: "Hulk Hogan"

392

1356: "Chuck Mangione"

393

1355: "Malcolm-Jamal Warner"

394

1354: "John Michael 'Ozzy' Osbourne"

395

1353: "Interglacial Period"

396

1352: "The Soto Dolmen in Trigueros, Spain"

397

1351: "Mitochondria"

398

1350: "The Kiss Cam"

399

1349: "Connie Francis"

400

1348: "Ozempic Venom"

401

1347: "Kola Superdeep Borehole"

402

1346: "Napoleon's Rabbit Hunt Gone Wrong!"

403

1345: "Flash Floods"

404

1344: "The SnackWrap Guy of Hendersonville"

405

1343: "The Cochno Stone"

406

1342: "Jumping Out of a Moving Car"

407

1341: "The History of 7-Eleven"

408

1340: "Ellesmere Island in Canada"

409

1339: "Zoroastrianism"

410

1338: "Don't Skip Lunch"

411

1337: "Tamerlane"

412

1336: "Iceland Has No Trees"

413

1335: "The Housefly That Didn't Drown"