Interesting Things with JC
Interesting Things with JC is a new podcast mini series, with highlight on some of the more interesting historical stories, current events as well as under-told stories.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 373
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
1380: "The Battery that Refuses to Die"
Interesting Things with JC #1380: "The Battery that Refuses to Die" – At Oxford, a mysterious battery has powered two bells for nearly 185 years. Unopened, unexplained, and still ringing. How can som…
00:02:11 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
1379: "The Tunnel That Never Thaws"
Interesting Things with JC #1379: "The Tunnel That Never Thaws" – Carved into ancient permafrost, this frozen tunnel holds more than ice, it holds time. From mammoth hair to volcanic ash, it’s a liv…
00:04:15 |
Sun 17 Aug 2025
1378: "The Brazilian Current"
Interesting Things with JC #1378: "The Brazilian Current" – It moves just one mile an hour, but it carries more than 50 Amazon Rivers. When warm meets cold, the ocean stirs. So does the planet.
00:02:41 |
Sat 16 Aug 2025
1377: "Explosive Pancake Batter of WWII"
Interesting Things with JC #1377: "Explosive Pancake Batter of WWII" – It looked like breakfast…but it packed a punch strong enough to derail a train. How wartime spies turned flour into firepower...…
00:02:54 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
1376: "Explosive Pancake Batter"
Interesting Things with JC #1376: "Explosive Pancake Batter" – A squeeze bottle. A kitchen. A bang. What looked like a gunshot was actually breakfast science under pressure...literally.
00:02:39 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
1375: "The Piri Reis Map"
Interesting Things with JC #1375: "The Piri Reis Map" – A 16th-century map drawn on gazelle skin holds coastlines that match the known world...and one that shouldn’t exist. Its lines spark both histo…
00:02:48 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
1374: "Dragon Man - A Face from the Human Past"
Interesting Things with JC #1374: "Dragon Man - A Face from the Human Past" – Buried through war and secrecy, a massive human skull waited 85 years in a well before revealing the face of a lost peopl…
00:02:58 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
1373: "Betelgeuse – The Unsteady Giant"
Interesting Things with JC #1373: "Betelgeuse – The Unsteady Giant" – In 2019, one of the brightest stars in our sky seemed to falter. What followed was a cosmic mystery of dust, pulse, and an ending…
00:02:52 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
1372: "James Lovell - Commander of Apollo 13"
Interesting Things with JC #1372: "James Lovell – Commander of Apollo 13" – From launching homemade rockets in Milwaukee fields to leading a crippled spacecraft safely home, James Lovell’s life was a…
00:06:16 |
Sun 10 Aug 2025
1371: "Bookless Library"
Interesting Things with JC #1371: "Bookless Library" – Shelves vanished. Screens replaced spines. For one city it was a bold leap into the future of reading.
00:03:55 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
1370: "Fly Fishing"
Interesting Things with JC #1370: "Fly Fishing" – Mist rises, the line arcs, and history rides the cast. Two thousand years of craft aiming for one perfect break on the water.
00:04:34 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
1369: "Purple Heart Day"
Interesting Things with JC #1369: "Purple Heart Day" – There’s no ceremony for being wounded in war. Just a medal, a memory, and the silence that follows. On August 7, we remember what it costs to co…
00:06:27 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
1368: "The Truth About Glass"
Interesting Things with JC #1368: "The Truth About Glass" – It doesn’t rust, it doesn’t rot, and it never loses strength. From Mesopotamian beads to fiber optics, discover why glass is one of the mos…
00:05:00 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
1367: "Loni Anderson"
Interesting Things with JC #1367: "Loni Anderson" – She wasn’t supposed to be famous. She was supposed to be Leilani. But from St. Paul to syndication royalty, Loni Anderson rewrote the script...and …
00:05:20 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
1366: "Today Is a Great Day!”
Interesting Things with JC #1366: "Today Is a Great Day!" – What if saying it out loud could shift more than just your mood? The data, and the dopamine, might surprise you!
00:04:08 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
1365: "Heterochromia"
Interesting Things with JC #1365: "Heterochromia" – One eye blue. The other, brown. Or green. Or gray. A rare twist of genetics leaves behind a quiet visual dissonance... and a beautiful biological …
00:05:38 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
1364: "What is the Cryospheric Process?"
Interesting Things with JC #1364: "What is the Cryospheric Process?" – Frozen water isn’t just waiting...it’s working. From cracking glaciers to thawing ground, the cryosphere is Earth’s quiet engine…
00:05:35 |
Sun 03 Aug 2025
1363: "Does the Past Still Exist?"
Interesting Things with JC #1363: "Does the Past Still Exist?" – Einstein called time an illusion. Quantum theory muddies it. But memory…memory makes it real. What if the past isn’t gone, just waitin…
00:02:49 |
Sat 02 Aug 2025
1362: "The Man Who Betrayed Washington"
Interesting Things with JC #1362: "The Man Who Betrayed Washington" – He was once a war hero...wounded, decorated, and trusted by Washington. But ambition turned to treason, and one name became the c…
00:02:36 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
1361: "The Metric Crescent Wrench"
Interesting Things with JC #1361: "The Metric Crescent Wrench" – Long before torque specs, there was legend. A vanished tool from 1743. The truth slips… one adjustment at a time.
00:01:27 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
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