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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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1696: "David Clayton-Thomas"
2d ago00:05:18Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1696: "David Clayton-Thomas" – David Clayton-Thomas replaced Blood, Sweat & Tears' original singer just as the band's future was uncertain, and his gritty rhythm-and-blues voice transformed a brass-heavy rock experiment into one of the biggest albums of its era. Long after lineup changes and shifting musical trends, the same voice remained inseparable from songs that continue to define the band's legacy.
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1695: "The Berlin Airlift - Keeping a City Alive"
3d ago00:03:59Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1695: "The Berlin Airlift - Keeping a City Alive" – Cargo planes keep landing in a city sealed off by every road, rail line, and canal as thousands of tons of coal, food, and medicine arrive through three air corridors, with flights continuing every few minutes despite weather, accidents, and an expanding blockade.
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1694: "27 Distinct Emotional Categories"
4d ago00:02:54Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1694: "27 Distinct Emotional Categories" – Researchers analyzed 27,000 emotional responses and found that human emotions did not fit a few basic categories; instead, 27 distinct emotional states blended into one another across a continuous emotional landscape. This story was suggested by Dr. Igo
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1693: "HAL5 and the Space Settlement Movement"
5d ago00:02:46Tap to summarizeInteresting 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.
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1692: "Frank Gardiner Wisner"
6d ago00:08:05Tap to summarizeInteresting 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.
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1691: "The Silence Beyond Redshift"
1w ago00:02:52Tap to summarizeInteresting 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.
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1690: "The Legendary Saab Convertible"
1w ago00:04:20Tap to summarizeInteresting 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.
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1689: "Mt. Elbrus"
1w ago00:03:38Tap to summarizeInteresting 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.
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1688: "A Simple Riddle 15"
1w ago00:00:46Tap to summarizeInteresting 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?
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1687: "Can Quantum Tunneling be Observed?"
2w ago00:05:38Tap to summarizeInteresting 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.
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