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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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1661: "The Earth's Core is Younger than its Surface"
2w ago00:02:35Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1661: "The Earth's Core is Younger than its Surface" – A clock at Earth’s core runs slightly slower than a clock on the surface, and over 4.5 billion years that tiny relativity effect leaves the center of the planet about two and a half years younger than the ground above it.
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1660: "The Adams Event"
2w ago00:02:45Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1660: "The Adams Event" – A 42,000-year-old kauri tree held a carbon record from the Laschamps Excursion, when Earth’s magnetic field weakened, cosmic rays increased, and the upper atmosphere may have changed while the tree kept the evidence ring by ring.
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1659: "Overmodulating the Carrier"
2w ago00:02:59Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1659: "Overmodulating the Carrier" – WMEX engineers pushed AM modulation to the edge so the station sounded louder and denser than nearby signals, with audio processing that helped 1510 punch through static, car noise, fading, and crowded nighttime dial conditions.
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1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus"
2w ago00:02:26Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1658: "HAVOC: The Airship of Venus" – NASA engineers studied a crewed airship that would float above Venus instead of landing on its deadly surface, because the planet’s upper atmosphere becomes far less extreme while the ground remains hot enough to destroy normal exploration hardware.
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1657: "The Stonefly of British Columbia"
2w ago00:02:42Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1657: "The Stonefly of British Columbia" – Stonefly nymphs cling to rocks in cold British Columbia rivers while scientists check whether the water can still support life; when the insects disappear, the river is usually warming, polluted, or losing oxygen, and the pattern reaches into forestry, mining, salmon habitat, and watershed monitoring.
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1656: "Antimatter Propulsion"
2w ago00:02:46Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1656: "Antimatter Propulsion" – Antimatter destroys normal matter on contact and converts mass directly into energy, but the fuel powerful enough to push spacecraft toward light speed cannot touch any container around it. Scientists can make positrons and antiprotons, but only in tiny amounts, while magnetic fields must hold the fuel away from everything else.
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1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators"
3w ago00:02:39Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1655: "Particles Live Longer in Accelerators" – A muon forms high above Earth and should decay before reaching the ground, but many survive the trip as their internal clocks slow near light speed; particle accelerators use the same effect to study unstable particles before they vanish
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1654: "Fusion Propulsion"
3w ago00:02:54Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1654: "Fusion Propulsion" – A spacecraft engine tries to push plasma at hundreds of kilometers per second while no normal material can touch the fuel. Fusion promises travel times chemical rockets cannot match, but the reaction has to be held hotter than the Sun’s core.
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1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists"
3w ago00:02:32Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists" – Harvard researchers published papers that downplayed sugar’s possible link to heart disease while sugar industry funding stayed undisclosed, and the blame shifted toward saturated fat as low-fat foods spread across American diets.
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1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment"
3w ago00:02:44Tap to summarizeInteresting Things with JC #1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment" – Facebook changed the News Feeds of nearly 690,000 users to test whether emotions could spread online without telling them first, and the users’ own posts shifted after the feed was altered.
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