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Interesting Things with JC
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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.
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1737: "Susan and Phil"
4d ago00:02:34Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1737: "Susan and Phil" – A woman enters a Fort Worth topless bar because she needs money, but the bouncer watching the door decides she doesn't belong there and asks her to go rattlesnake hunting instead. That unlikely meeting leads two ninth-grade dropouts toward biology degrees, wildlife research, and a scientific career neither believed was possible.
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1736: "NFL Training Camp"
5d ago00:02:58Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1736: "NFL Training Camp" – Every NFL team starts training camp with 90 players, but every practice removes someone from the race until only 53 are left.
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1735: "The SpaceX Rocket That Crashed on the Moon"
6d ago00:02:17Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1735: "The SpaceX Rocket That Crashed on the Moon" – A spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage drifted through space for more than a year after completing its mission before gravity pulled it into the moon, where its impact created a new crater that spacecraft can study.
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1734: "Tattoo Ink and Your Lymph Nodes"
1w ago00:02:38Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1734: "Tattoo Ink and Your Lymph Nodes" – Tattoo ink doesn't always stay in your skin. Your immune system carries some of it into nearby lymph nodes, where the pigment can remain for decades as immune cells continually pass it from one cell to the next.
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1733: "Can Rams Get Brain Damage?"
1w ago00:02:37Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1733: "Can Rams Get Brain Damage?" – Bighorn rams survive violent head-on crashes that would devastate most animals, yet their brains may still carry evidence of those impacts. Scientists are still trying to understand what they're seeing.
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1732: "Sir Bryan Thwaites - The Man Who Changed How We Learn Mathematics"
1w ago00:02:57Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1732: "The Man Who Changed How Britain Learned Mathematics" – A Cambridge mathematician leaves a prestigious research career to redesign how mathematics is taught, replacing outdated classroom methods with ideas like vectors, matrices, and graph theory that spread through schools across Britain and shaped how millions of students would learn for generations.
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1731: "Mac's Drive-In”
1w ago00:02:42Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1731: "Mac's Drive-In" – A drive-in restaurant has kept the same carhop service, horseshoe counter, and frosted root beer tradition alive since 1961, even after moving the entire building to a new location in 1967. While thousands of independent drive-ins disappeared, Mac's kept serving customers much the same way it always had.
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1730: "Weed Zappers"
2w ago00:02:44Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1730: "Weed Zappers" – Herbicide-resistant weeds are surviving the chemicals meant to kill them, so some farmers are now sending 15,000 volts through individual plants to destroy them from stem to root as agriculture adapts to evolution.
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1729: "Project Skif: Russia's Seabed Nuclear Silos"
2w ago00:02:55Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1729: "Project Skif: Russia's Seabed Nuclear Silos" – Intelligence reports suggest Russia may be testing nuclear missile launchers designed to wait for years on the Arctic seabed.
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1728: "Little Italy"
2w ago00:05:48Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1728: "Little Italy" – Millions of Italian immigrants came to America seeking opportunity and helped build New York through hard work, faith, and family. Their neighborhoods became Little Italy, leaving a legacy that shaped both the city and the nation.
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