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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.

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#1759
Today · 6 min
1759: "Gestalt Language Processing"
Interesting Things with JC #1759: "Gestalt Language Processing" – A child repeats a phrase they heard hours, days, or weeks earlier, sometimes using the same tone and rhythm. This delayed echolalia can communicate something.
#1758
Yesterday · 2 min
1758: "The Oxytocin Feedback Loop"
Interesting Things with JC #1758: "The Oxytocin Feedback Loop" – A dog holds its owner’s gaze, and oxytocin rises in the human. The owner then interacts more with the dog, whose oxytocin also rises, creating a feedback loop between gaze, behavior, and biology across two species.
#1757
Thursday · 3 min
1757: "The Tracking Device We Carry"
Interesting Things with JC #1757: "The Tracking Device We Carry" – Your phone tracking everywhere you go once sounded like a conspiracy. Now smartphones routinely create location records through cell towers, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and apps.
#1756
Wednesday · 2 min
1756: "What Happens When You Skip Sleep?"
Interesting Things with JC #1756: "What Happens When You Skip Sleep?" – Stay awake long enough and adenosine signaling increases sleep pressure while caffeine can temporarily block the feeling of it. Attention, judgment, and memory become less reliable.
#1755
Tuesday · 2 min
1755: "How Do Dogs Know How to Herd?"
Interesting Things with JC #1755: "How Do Dogs Know How to Herd?" – A Border Collie can crouch, stare, and move around sheep before learning herding commands. Selective breeding reshaped parts of the canine hunting sequence into herding behavior.
#1754
Monday · 2 min
1754: "Jose Alberto Gutierrez"
Interesting Things with JC #1754: "Jose Alberto Gutierrez" – Bogotá garbage collector José Alberto Gutiérrez keeps pulling discarded books from the trash until his home becomes a free library and the books begin reaching communities across Colombia.
#1753
Sunday · 2 min
1753: "Charlie"
Interesting Things with JC #1753: "Charlie" – The name is very common today, but it kept changing as it passed through different languages.
#1752
August 22 · 2 min
1752: "The Blind Man"
Interesting Things with JC #1752: "The Blind Man" – A blind man’s eyes are touched, and he begins to see people, but they look like trees walking around. His eyes are touched again, and his vision becomes clear, leaving a moment when what he sees is real but incomplete.
#1751
August 21 · length unknown
1751: "The Wasps That Know Your Face"
Interesting Things with JC #1751: "The Wasps That Know Your Face" – Northern paper wasps recognize individual nestmates by their faces. Change a familiar face, and the colony responds with aggression until it learns who that face belongs to.
#1750
August 20 · length unknown
1750: "Trebizond"
Interesting Things with JC #1750: "Trebizond" – Ships carry coffee, copper, cloth, salt, and other goods through Trebizond while steep roads climb from the Black Sea harbor into the Pontic Mountains.
#1749
August 19 · 2 min
1749: "Ouzel Lake and the Dangers of Alpine Swimming"
Interesting Things with JC #1749: "Ouzel Lake and the Dangers of Alpine Swimming" – Ouzel Lake can look inviting after a 4.9-mile summer hike, but the mountain water can remain cold enough to trigger an involuntary gasp and rapid breathing almost immediately.
#1748
August 18 · 3 min
1748: "Follow the Leader"
Interesting Things with JC #1748: "Follow the Leader" – August 18th, 1998 a legendary album dropped. Korn’s original Follow the Leader CD starts with twelve five-second tracks containing no music. A full minute passes before the album finally begins on track thirteen....
#1747
August 17 · 4 min
1747: "Davy Crockett Before the Legend"
Interesting Things with JC #1747: "Davy Crockett Before the Legend" – Davy Crockett was becoming a legend while he was still alive. He claimed 105 bears in less than one year!!
#1746
August 16 · 2 min
1746: "Julie Newmar"
Interesting Things with JC #1746: "Julie Newmar" – Julie had already won a Tony and trained for years in ballet before playing Catwoman, then used that same attention to movement and body shape to redesign women’s undergarments.
#1745
August 15 · 4 min
1745: "The Wow! Signal"
Interesting Things with JC #1745: "The Wow! Signal" – A radio telescope in Ohio detected a powerful narrowband signal from the direction of Sagittarius for 72 seconds, matching the rise and fall expected from a fixed source in the sky. The signal vanished!!!!
#1744
August 14 · 2 min
1744: "The Lemon Juice Heist"
Interesting Things with JC #1744: "The Lemon Juice Heist" – McArthur Wheeler robs Pittsburgh banks with lemon juice on his face because he believes security cameras cannot see him. The cameras see him clearly.
#1743
August 13 · 3 min
1743: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect"
Interesting Things with JC #1743: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect" – Low performers overestimated their scores, but the famous “Mount Stupid” graph wasn’t part of the study, and researchers still debate what causes the effect.
#1742
August 12 · 4 min
1742: "The Milk Hill Spiral"
Interesting Things with JC #1742: "The Milk Hill Spiral" – In a wheat field on Milk Hill, 409 separate circles form a six-sided spiral across roughly 780 to 900 feet of rolling ground. The circle sizes change as the pattern spreads outward, but the larger geometry holds across the hillside.
#1741
August 11 · 3 min
1741: "The Night Hip-Hop Was Born"
Interesting Things with JC #1741: "The Night Hip-Hop Was Born" – At a Bronx party in 1973, DJ Kool Herc notices that dancers come alive during the short drum breaks, but the breaks end within seconds. He uses two turntables to keep those sections going, giving the dancers more of the part they want
#1740
August 10 · 6 min
1740: "Forty Six and 2"
Interesting Things with JC #1740: "Forty Six and 2" – Tool’s “Forty Six & 2” starts with a shadow shedding its skin, moves through wounds being reopened, and hides a disputed idea about human chromosomes inside its title. Nearly thirty years later, listeners are still pulling apart the psychology

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