1633: "Alfred Adler & Happiness"

1633: "Alfred Adler & Happiness"

Author: JC April 25, 2026 Duration: 3:28
Interesting Things with JC #1633: "Alfred Adler & Happiness" – Alfred Adler sits with a patient and ignores their past to ask where they are going, breaking from Sigmund Freud as he treats behavior as forward movement, and this shift keeps showing up as people chase happiness directly and lose it while those focused on contribution in work, friendship, and love stabilize instead.

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1634: "Chernobyl Explodes and Igor Khiryak Goes Back In" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:51
Interesting Things with JC #1634: "Chernobyl Explodes and Igor Khiryak Goes Back In" – A pontoon bridge is being assembled in a moving river while radiation levels are unknown, sections pinned and anchored as current pus…
1632: "Double Slit Experiment at the Quantum Level" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:44
Interesting Things with JC #1632: "Double Slit Experiment at the Quantum Level" – One photon goes through two slits and hits as a single dot while a wave pattern still builds, even after the setup removes anything that s…
1631: "We Stopped Talking Without Noticing" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:17
Interesting Things with JC #1631: "We Stopped Talking Without Noticing" – Two people sit together while one speaks and the other looks at a phone, and the conversation continues as if it was heard even though part of it…
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…