Interesting Things with JC

00:02:35

1795: “Do Redheads Have Special Powers for Survival?”

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/10/04

Interesting Things with JC #1795: “Do Redheads Have Special Powers for Survival?” - Tennessee tried to execute Christa Gail Pike with pentobarbital, but she survived. An online theory pointed to her red hair, where real genetic differences involving anesthesia and pain offer an unexpected scientific connection, but not an explanation for surviving lethal injection.

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00:02:49

1794: "Best of Both Worlds - Van Halen - 5150"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/10/03

Interesting Things with JC #1794: "Best of Both Worlds" — David Lee Roth was gone, Sammy Hagar was in, and Van Halen responded with 5150, the first number one album of its career, while “Best of Both Worlds” became an unexpectedly fitting title for the band's new era.

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00:02:53

1792: "The Compact Disc Era"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/10/01

Interesting Things with JC #1792: "The Compact Disc Era" — CDs went from replacing records and cassettes to dominating music sales, appearing in nearly every car, and then losing the dashboard slot to the digital music they helped make normal.

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00:02:51

1791: "The Night Lake Erie Rose”

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2026/09/30

Interesting Things with JC #1791: "The Night Lake Erie Rose" — In October 1844, powerful winds reversed across Lake Erie and sent water surging into Buffalo, flooding neighborhoods, destroying buildings and driving canal boats into city streets in one of the region’s worst early maritime disasters.

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00:02:21

1789: "The Lake Michigan Circle"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/09/28

Interesting Things with JC #1789: "The Lake Michigan Circle" — Drive 1,100 miles around Lake Michigan through 4 states, or board a steamship where an official spur takes the Circle Tour off the road.

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00:05:04

1786: "9 to 5 - The Movie"

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2026/09/25

Interesting Things with JC #1786: "9 to 5 - The Movie" – Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton worked inside a fake office built around problems real working women were reporting: low wages, blocked promotions and sexual harassment. The comedy exaggerated the revenge, but the workplace problems came directly from women who had been organizing for change since the 1970s.

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00:02:26

1784: "The Hydrogen Peroxide Mistake"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/09/23

Interesting Things with JC #1784: "The Hydrogen Peroxide Mistake" – Hydrogen peroxide foams on a scraped knee, but the bubbles don't prove germs are dying. The same chemical reaction that attacks bacteria can also damage healthy skin cells, even as people keep pouring it onto wounds to help them heal.

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00:02:51

1783: "Humanity is Unprepared for AI"

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2026/09/22

Interesting Things with JC #1783: "Humanity is Unprepared for AI" – A student spends years preparing for a career while AI changes the work before graduation. Machines can already help people research, solve problems, and produce results, but employers may need fewer workers as those capabilities expand. Students must choose careers and decide when to trust AI systems that can still invent evidence.

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00:04:17

1781: "The Carnyx"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/09/20

Interesting Things with JC #1781: "The Carnyx" – Celtic warriors raised bronze carnyxes nearly 10 feet high, blasting sound through open animal jaws above the battlefield. One surviving boar head had a hinged jaw and movable tongue that could rattle as it played, while seven carnyxes later found at a Gallic sanctuary showed the same instrument belonged beyond war.

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00:02:44

1777: "Your Mind Controls Your Age"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/09/16

Interesting Things with JC #1777: "Your Mind Controls Your Age" – Adults who viewed their own aging more positively lived an average of 7.5 years longer in a long-running Yale study. Across other studies, people who felt younger also walked faster and declined less over time, while researchers continue to examine how expectations about aging interact with behavior, health, and longevity.

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00:02:53

1775: "The Signal Einstein Thought We Might Never Hear"

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2026/09/14

Interesting Things with JC #1775: "The Signal Einstein Thought We Might Never Hear" – Two LIGO detectors register the same gravitational-wave signal seven milliseconds apart as two black holes merge 1.3 billion light-years away. The signal lasts about two-tenths of a second, while the instruments measure changes smaller than the width of a proton after decades of attempts failed to detect one.

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00:04:38

1772: "Staten Island Remembers"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/09/11

Interesting Things with JC #1772: "Staten Island Remembers" – At Staten Island’s Postcards memorial, 274 individual plaques face across New York Harbor toward the place where the Twin Towers once stood. Many families represented there received no identifiable remains, making the waterfront memorial the closest thing they had to a gravesite, while a second memorial records first responders who died years later from illnesses associated with World Trade Center rescue and recovery work.

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00:02:33

1766: "Autistici/Inventati - The Network Behind the...

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/09/05

Interesting Things with JC #1766: "Autistici/Inventati - The Network Behind the Network" – Autistici/Inventati runs encrypted email, private chats, websites and other infrastructure designed to make users harder to monitor. By 2026, violent radical groups and the PKK were among those using its services, while U.S. authorities say the collective screened applicants and provided access to groups it believed shared its politics.

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00:06:51

1765: "The FBI Surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr."

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/09/04

Interesting Things with JC #1765: "The FBI Surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr." – The FBI wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr. without a criminal charge and failed to establish that he or the SCLC was controlled by communists. The surveillance expanded into hotel microphones and private recordings, and FBI officials began using what they collected in efforts to discredit King and weaken his influence.

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00:05:16

1761: "At the Space-Time Limit"

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2026/08/31

Interesting Things with JC #1761: "At the Space-Time Limit" – In 2026, researchers measured an electron moving through a barrier in less than a femtosecond while still seeing where it was at the scale of a single atom. The experiment pushes electron observation into times measured in attoseconds without losing the atomic-scale view.

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00:02:54

1758: "The Oxytocin Feedback Loop"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/08/28

Interesting Things with JC #1758: "The Oxytocin Feedback Loop" – A dog holds its owner’s gaze, and oxytocin rises in the human. The owner then interacts more with the dog, whose oxytocin also rises, creating a feedback loop between gaze, behavior, and biology across two species.

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00:03:47

1757: "The Tracking Device We Carry"

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2026/08/27

Interesting Things with JC #1757: "The Tracking Device We Carry" – Your phone tracking everywhere you go once sounded like a conspiracy. Now smartphones routinely create location records through cell towers, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and apps.

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00:02:36

1752: "The Blind Man"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/08/22

Interesting Things with JC #1752: "The Blind Man" – A blind man’s eyes are touched, and he begins to see people, but they look like trees walking around. His eyes are touched again, and his vision becomes clear, leaving a moment when what he sees is real but incomplete.

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00:03:47

1748: "Follow the Leader"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/08/18

Interesting Things with JC #1748: "Follow the Leader" – August 18th, 1998 a legendary album dropped. Korn’s original Follow the Leader CD starts with twelve five-second tracks containing no music. A full minute passes before the album finally begins on track thirteen, turning the physical CD’s track sequence into part of the album itself.

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00:02:48

1739: "R&B in the Rain"

Interesting Things with JC ·

2026/08/09

Interesting Things with JC #1739: "R&B in the Rain" – The Temptations use rain to hide a man’s tears, but later R&B records keep putting people in the same weather for different reasons. Ann Peebles hears an absent lover in every drop, New Edition turns rain into a relationship test, and Ashanti puts it inside a story about getting away.

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