1572: "Is Matter an Illusion?"

1572: "Is Matter an Illusion?"

Author: JC February 25, 2026 Duration: 2:30
Interesting Things with JC #1572: "Is Matter an Illusion?" – It feels solid. It isn’t. What you call “touch” is force pushing back. Matter is real, but your experience of it is a high-speed brain edit hiding a far stranger truth.

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1630: "The 392 HEMI" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:06
Interesting Things with JC #1630: "The 392 HEMI" – Inside the 392 HEMI, air is pulled across a wide hemispherical chamber as the piston drops, but the same layout that improves high-RPM cylinder filling also makes the en…
1629: "The Sacking of the Libraries of Alexandria and Cleopatra" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:13
Interesting Things with JC #1629: "The Sacking of the Libraries of Alexandria and Cleopatra" – Caesar burns ships in Alexandria’s harbor to block an enemy fleet, but the fire spreads into a city built to collect written…
1628: "Shooting Drones with an F-35" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:56
Interesting Things with JC #1628: "Shooting Drones with an F-35" – An F-35 pilot slows a supersonic aircraft to match a drone moving slower than highway traffic, because closing too fast erases the shot, and even with fu…
1627: "British Columbia Tree Seed Centre" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:39
Interesting Things with JC #1627: "British Columbia Tree Seed Centre" – A government seed bank stores millions of tree seeds labeled by exact origin while forests are already being cut and replanted, and every new hillsi…
1626: "Can You Hear Electricity?" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:33
Interesting Things with JC #1626: "Can You Hear Electricity" – A glass globe spins under a hand in a London lab as charge builds and sharp snaps break the air, but the sound isn’t electricity and the same effect continue…
1625: "Radiation Experiments on Civilians" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:07
Interesting Things with JC #1625: "Radiation Experiments on Civilians" – A man is already on the table when something is injected before his injuries are treated, and nothing appears wrong as his body quietly carries it…
1624: "Cord Meyer" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:13
Interesting Things with JC #1624: "Cord Meyer" – Cord Meyer routes hidden CIA funding into magazines, student groups, and cultural institutions that present themselves as independent. The people involved do not know the…
1623: "The Whiskey Rebellion and the Power to Tax" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:03
Interesting Things with JC #1623: "The Whiskey Rebellion and the Power to Tax" – A federal tax collector rides into a town where whiskey barrels are stacked like currency, but no one comes forward to pay. The tax is alre…
1622: "The Morgan Horse" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:32
Interesting Things with JC #1622: "The Morgan Horse" – A compact stallion stands in a field and moves like nothing is wasted. Horses built larger keep losing to him without clear reason. The same build appears again in h…
1621: "The Blue Room" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:04
Interesting Things with JC #1621: "The Blue Room" – A sealed room inside Wright-Patterson is treated as routine. The name used for it does not exist in any confirmed record, but it keeps appearing anyway. The description…