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Interesting Things with JC episodes
- 1422: "What the Garden Gives Back"
Interesting Things with JC #1422: "What the Garden Gives Back" – Touch the soil, and something happens. Science now shows what generations already knew: dirt can calm your mind, steady your body, and heal your spirit. This episode, dedicated to Educator Kate, uncovers the hidden medicine waiting in the ground.
5 min - 1421: "Carbonated Soda"
Interesting Things with JC #1421: "Carbonated Soda" – From 18th-century experiments with “fixed air” to the hiss of a modern can, soda has carried medicine, rivalry, and ritual into everyday life. The bubbles may vanish, but the story still fizzes.
4 min - 1420: "Vanta Black"
Interesting Things with JC #1420: "Vanta Black" – It’s not just black, it’s the absence of shape itself. Discover the color that bends perception, ignites a feud, and vanishes light like a trapdoor in space.
6 min - 1419: "Stanislaw Petrow"
Interesting Things with JC #1419: "Stanislaw Petrow" – One officer. Five false missiles. A moment that could have ended the world, and the judgment that saved it.
3 min - 1418: "What is Leucovorin?"
Interesting Things with JC #1418: "What is Leucovorin?" – It’s not a cure. It’s a second chance. A small vial with no fame, leucovorin helps the body recover when medicine goes too far, and may help language return when words are lost.
0 min - 1417: "Dr. Green’s Light"
Interesting Things with JC #1417: "Dr. Green’s Light" – What if curing cancer didn’t require cutting, poisoning, or burning? One physicist is turning light and gold into a revolution in care.
3 min - 1416: "Water on Mars"
Interesting Things with JC #1416: "Water on Mars" – In 1999, light from a distant planet revealed something Earth-shaking: Mars once held oceans. The data was dry. The discovery was not.
3 min - 1415: "The 21st Night of September"
Interesting Things with JC #1415: "The 21st Night of September" – A date, a dance floor, and a nonsense phrase that changed music forever. The story behind “ba-dee-ya” might just surprise you.
3 min - 1414: "The Real Castles and Lands of Game of Thrones"
Interesting Things with JC #1414: "The Real Castles and Lands of Game of Thrones" – Behind the dragons and politics were real castles, coasts, and ancient streets. From Icelandic rifts to Spanish palaces, fantasy rested on geology and stone. What remains when the stories fade is the land itself. This episode is dedicated to Peggy Bolton.
5 min - 1413: "Rods, Cones, and Blindness"
Interesting Things with JC #1413: "Rods, Cones, and Blindness" – The cells that make vision possible are also the ones that fail when blindness strikes. But what if those same cells could help bring sight back?
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About 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.