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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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1693: "HAL5 and the Space Settlement Movement"
Jun 2400:02:46Tap 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"
Jun 2300:08:05Tap 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"
Jun 2200:02:52Tap 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"
Jun 2100:04:20Tap 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"
Jun 2000:03:38Tap 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"
Jun 1900:00:46Tap 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?"
Jun 1800:05:38Tap 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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1686: "M.C. Escher"
Jun 1700:04:46Tap to summarizeInteresting 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.
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1685: "Lisa del Giocondo"
Jun 1600:05:30Tap to summarizeInteresting 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.
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1684: "Gene Shalit"
Jun 1500:06:14Tap to summarizeInteresting 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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