Interesting Things with JC
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1693: "HAL5 and the Space Settlement Movement"
Jun 24, 2026
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| 6/24/26 |  1693: "HAL5 and the Space Settlement Movement" | Interesting Things with JC #1693: "HAL5 and the Space Settlement Movement" – Engineers and space enthusiasts in Huntsville kept meeting to discuss permanent human settlements in space after the Space Age had largely faded from public attention, and decades later many of the same ideas are returning through commercial stations, lunar development, and reusable rockets. | — | ||||||
| 6/23/26 |  1692: "Frank Gardiner Wisner" | Interesting Things with JC #1692: "Frank Gardiner Wisner" – Frank Wisner watched Soviet influence replace German influence in Romania while World War II was still being fought, and the institutions he later helped build were designed to compete in the same kind of political struggle through covert influence, organizations, media, and intelligence networks long after armies stopped moving. | — | ||||||
| 6/22/26 |  1691: "The Silence Beyond Redshift" | Interesting Things with JC #1691: "The Silence Beyond Redshift" – A spacecraft continues receiving messages from Earth while the signals arrive slower, weaker, and increasingly redshifted. Earth never stops transmitting, but the shared conversation keeps stretching across time until the messages can no longer preserve a common present. | — | ||||||
| 6/21/26 |  1690: "The Legendary Saab Convertible" | Interesting Things with JC #1690: "The Legendary Saab Convertible" – Saab engineers were reinforcing a convertible for winter driving while much of the company doubted anyone wanted one. Dealers and customers kept demanding the car, and what began as an unlikely experiment grew into nearly 300,000 convertibles built over twenty-five years. This episode was inspired by our friends at Superior Auto Sales. | — | ||||||
| 6/20/26 |  1689: "Mt. Elbrus" | Interesting Things with JC #1689: "Mt. Elbrus" – A mountain once imagined as the center of the cosmos later became a wartime propaganda symbol and is now monitored as its glaciers shrink, while people continue attaching new meanings to the same peak. | — | ||||||
| 6/19/26 |  1688: "A Simple Riddle 15" | Interesting Things with JC #1688: "A Simple Riddle 15" – A simple riddle has a simple answer, but most people still miss it. Can you solve today's riddle? | — | ||||||
| 6/18/26 |  1687: "Can Quantum Tunneling be Observed?" | Interesting Things with JC #1687: "Can Quantum Tunneling be Observed?" – Electrons pass through barriers they do not have enough energy to cross, and instruments built around that effect can map individual atoms. The same process continues inside radioactive atoms, semiconductor devices, and the Sun, where particles keep appearing beyond barriers that classical physics says should stop them. | — | ||||||
| 6/17/26 |  1686: "M.C. Escher" | Interesting Things with JC #1686: "M.C. Escher" – An artist fills a page with shapes that fit perfectly together, then turns them into staircases, waterfalls, and worlds that appear correct while mathematically breaking the rules of reality. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/26 |  1685: "Lisa del Giocondo" | Interesting Things with JC #1685: "Lisa del Giocondo" – Leonardo da Vinci is painting a merchant’s wife when the commission stops behaving like a commission. He keeps the portrait, carries it for years, and Lisa del Giocondo becomes famous while her own life fades. | — | ||||||
| 6/15/26 |  1684: "Gene Shalit" | Interesting Things with JC #1684: "Gene Shalit" – Gene Shalit spent more than seven decades writing for American audiences, from newspapers and magazines to radio and television. Best known for nearly forty years on NBC's Today, he built a career on curiosity, humor, and a belief that culture should be accessible to everyone. | — | ||||||
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| 6/14/26 |  1683: "Is Jell-O Made from Horses?" | Interesting Things with JC #1683: "Is Jell-O Made from Horses?" – People still say Jell-O is made from horses. The rumor has survived for decades, even though the story behind it is something else entirely. | — | ||||||
| 6/13/26 |  1682: "Sea Otters Hold Hands when they Sleep"✨ | sea ottersanimal behavior+3 | — | — | Pacific Ocean | sea otterssleep+3 | — | 1m 42s | |
| 6/12/26 |  1681: "The Day After Disclosure: Humanity Already Has a Plan"✨ | alien signalsglobal protocols+3 | — | Scientists | — | alien signaldisclosure+4 | — | 3m 33s | |
| 6/11/26 |  1680: "The Overview Effect: How Does a Cosmic Perspective Change Us?"✨ | cosmic perspectiveOverview Effect+3 | — | The Overview Effect | Earthspace | Overview Effectcosmic perspective+4 | — | 2m 55s | |
| 6/10/26 |  1679: "The Fermi Paradox: Why Haven't We Found Anyone?"✨ | Fermi Paradoxintelligent life+3 | — | The Fermi Paradox | Milky Way | Fermi Paradoxextraterrestrial life+4 | — | 3m 37s | |
| 6/9/26 |  1678: "The Formal Study of ESP"✨ | ESPpsychology+3 | — | Duke University | — | ESPDuke University+3 | — | 3m 50s | |
| 6/8/26 |  1677: "The Benben Stone"✨ | sacred stonesEgyptian mythology+3 | — | The Benben Stone | Egypt | Benben StoneEgypt+4 | — | 2m 37s | |
| 6/7/26 |  1676: "Thomas Sowell"✨ | economicslabor conditions+3 | — | — | Puerto Rico | Thomas Sowelllabor conditions+3 | — | 4m 47s | |
| 6/6/26 |  1675: "The Green Children of Woolpit"✨ | mythologyfolklore+3 | — | — | Woolpit | green childrenWoolpit+3 | — | 3m 56s | |
| 6/5/26 |  1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials"✨ | psychiatryresearch+3 | — | Subproject 68 | — | psychiatric patientsrecorded message+3 | — | 5m 57s | |
| 6/4/26 |  1673: "There Is No Universal Now"✨ | timerelativity+3 | — | — | — | universal nowlight-years+3 | — | 2m 51s | |
| 6/3/26 |  1672: "Magnetism is a Relativistic Force" | Interesting Things with JC #1672: "Magnetism is a Relativistic Force" – A current-carrying wire stays electrically neutral on a table while a moving charge beside it feels a magnetic force, but in the charge’s own frame the spacing of charges changes and the same force appears electric. | — | ||||||
| 6/2/26 |  1671: "What Is the L2 Point?" | Interesting Things with JC #1671: "What Is the L2 Point?" – A mathematician identified a location in space in 1772 where gravity keeps spacecraft moving with Earth around the Sun, and nearly 250 years later observatories began traveling there to do some of humanity's most advanced science. | — | ||||||
| 6/1/26 |  1670: "Napster" | Interesting Things with JC #1670: "Napster" – On June 1, 1999, Shawn Fanning releases Napster, and within months college students are searching each other’s hard drives for MP3 files while campus networks slow under traffic and the music industry moves toward court. | — | ||||||
| 5/31/26 |  1669: "The Rare Blue Moon" | Interesting Things with JC #1669: "The Rare Blue Moon" – A second full Moon rises over May, carrying a rare name it will not appear to deserve. It will not look blue, and it may look completely ordinary, but the calendar has left room for one extra full Moon while the Moon itself is near the farthest edge of its orbit. | — | ||||||
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