Interesting Things with JC #1475: "Coriolis Effect Explained" – A breeze feels simple enough, but its path hides an influence turning just beneath our feet. A subtle shift in motion reveals how the planet gently redirects the world above it.

Interesting Things with JC #1474: "Do Hard Things" – When you face one tough task, the mind shifts from threat to control. Hard work shrinks imagined problems and restores the world to its real size.

Interesting Things with JC #1473: "Can a Thought Move Faster than Light?" – When nerve signals crawl at human speeds yet decisions feel instant, the mystery isn’t distance but design.

Interesting Things with JC #1472: "Rumi and Poetry" – Rumi’s days ran the same for years until a stranger showed up and challenged everything he thought he understood. Then the man disappeared, and the fallout pushed Rumi into writing that still grips readers centuries later.

Interesting Things with JC #1471: "The Importance of Alpha and Gamma Brainwaves" – There’s a moment when your brain shifts gears, and it changes everything from how you calm down to how you solve a problem. Most people never notice it happening, but it’s running the whole show.

Interesting Things with JC #1470: "Forbidden City, Beijing" – A palace built in fourteen years with quake-flexing timber, golden bricks that rang underfoot, and a cosmic axis meant to bind an emperor to the stars. Step inside and you find a city engineered to survive fire, war, and anyone who dared to cross its gates.

Interesting Things with JC #1469: "Subjectivity and Judging" – From courtroom rulings to puppet shows, we’re not as rational as we think. What shapes our gut reactions, and can we ever judge fairly?

Interesting Things with JC #1468: "The Hobbit of Flores" – A skull the size of two hands rewrites what endurance looks like. On an island no one could reach without crossing open sea, a small human lineage held on far longer than it should have, and left questions modern science still can’t answer.

Interesting Things with JC #1467: "History of the Electricians Wire Stretcher" – A lost Roman tool. A Da Vinci sketch. A telegraph miracle. Across centuries, one device keeps reappearing... when wires come up short.

Interesting Things with JC #1466: "What is a Veteran?" – From ancient Rome to today’s armed forces, the word “veteran” has carried centuries of honor. What does it really mean to serve, to return, and to keep faith long after the battle ends?

Interesting Things with JC #1465: "250 Years of the Marine Corps" – Forged in a tavern, tested in war. From Tripoli to Iwo Jima to Kabul, the U.S. Marines built 250 years of elite grit where precision meets chaos.

Interesting Things with JC #1464: "NCO vs Officer" – Two ranks, one mission. Officers chart the course; NCOs make it real. Where strategy meets grit and every Marine is a Rifleman first.

Interesting Things with JC #1463: "The Red Ball Express" – In 1944, thousands of trucks raced across France to fuel an army on the move. Most were driven by Black soldiers who never got the glory, but kept victory alive.

Interesting Things with JC #1462: "Cream City Brick" – Milwaukee didn’t get its look from a catalog, it got it from the land. Bricks made from ancient seafloor clay gave the city its warm hue, its strength, and its soul.

Interesting Things with JC #1461: "Inside the Black Hole We Call Home" – What if our universe isn’t floating in space… but folded inside it? A radical cosmology flips collapse into creation, and changes where we think we live.

Interesting Things with JC #1460: "Katharine Story: The Designer Who Trusted Her Eye Over Tradition" – She shaped her world by feel, not formula. From Camden to Laguna, Katharine's instinct carved a career that tradition would never have greenlit.

Interesting Things with JC #1459: "The Woman Who Danced Between Two Worlds" – She didn’t ask to belong. She proved she did. King Lan Chew stepped into history not by force, but by grace and grit. A Chinese-American woman who danced her way through barriers, on her own terms.

Interesting Things with JC #1458: "How a Wardrobe Malfunction Invented the Modern Bra" – A ruined dress, two handkerchiefs, and a flash of frustration led to one of fashion’s most quietly radical inventions. What started in a mirror reshaped the world.

Interesting Things with JC #1457: "The 1492 Ensisheim Meteor" – In 1492, a thunderous roar split the skies over Ensisheim, and a blazing stone crashed to Earth. Villagers saw a sign from God. Centuries later, science revealed something far older...a fragment of creation itself.

Interesting Things with JC #1456: "The Invention of the Time Zone" – Before the trains, every town kept its own noon. Then one day in 1883, a single telegraph signal reset an entire continent. The moment time itself was standardized, and trust was synchronized.