1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists"

1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists"

Author: JC May 15, 2026 Duration: 2:32
Interesting Things with JC #1653: "The Sugar Industry and the Scientists" – Harvard researchers published papers that downplayed sugar’s possible link to heart disease while sugar industry funding stayed undisclosed, and the blame shifted toward saturated fat as low-fat foods spread across American diets.

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1636: "AM Radio as the Last Mass-Mind Medium" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:33
Interesting Things with JC #1636: "AM Radio as the Last Mass-Mind Medium" – A 50,000-watt AM station is transmitting one voice across multiple states at night while millions of people in different places hear the same si…
1635: "Nahanni: The River That Refused to Be Touched" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:24
Interesting Things with JC #1635: "Nahanni: The River That Refused to Be Touched" – A river runs for hundreds of miles with no dams and no control, then suddenly drops nearly twice the height of Niagara while the land ar…
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…
1633: "Alfred Adler & Happiness" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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, a…
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…