1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials"

1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials"

Author: JC June 5, 2026 Duration: 5:57
Interesting Things with JC #1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials" – A recorded message keeps playing for up to 20 hours a day while psychiatric patients are isolated from competing stimuli, and the same phrase continues repeating thousands of times as researchers attempt to reshape thought itself.

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1676: "Thomas Sowell" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:47
Interesting Things with JC #1676: "Thomas Sowell" – A young government economist studies labor conditions in Puerto Rico and finds that policies designed to help poor workers are leaving some without jobs. The same disco…
1675: "The Green Children of Woolpit" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:56
Interesting Things with JC #1675: "The Green Children of Woolpit" – Two green-skinned children appear beside the wolf pits in Woolpit speaking an unknown language, refuse nearly every food except broad beans, and as one…
1673: "There Is No Universal Now" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:51
Interesting Things with JC #1673: "There Is No Universal Now" – A star 100 light-years away is doing something at this moment, but observers moving at different velocities can assign different times to the same distant e…
1672: "Magnetism is a Relativistic Force" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:54
Interesting Things with JC #1672: "Magnetism is a Relativistic Force" – A current-carrying wire stays electrically neutral on a table while a moving charge beside it feels a magnetic force, but in the charge’s own frame…
1671: "What Is the L2 Point?" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:54
Interesting Things with JC #1671: "What Is the L2 Point?" – A mathematician identified a location in space in 1772 where gravity keeps spacecraft moving with Earth around the Sun, and nearly 250 years later observatories…
1670: "Napster" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:57
Interesting Things with JC #1670: "Napster" – On June 1, 1999, Shawn Fanning releases Napster, and within months college students are searching each other’s hard drives for MP3 files while campus networks slow under traf…
1669: "The Rare Blue Moon" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:46
Interesting Things with JC #1669: "The Rare Blue Moon" – A second full Moon rises over May, carrying a rare name it will not appear to deserve. It will not look blue, and it may look completely ordinary, but the calendar…
1668: "History of the Stanley Cup" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:24
Interesting Things with JC #1668: "History of the Stanley Cup" – The Stanley Cup keeps changing hands while its silver bands record winners, mistakes, and accidents. A trophy meant for amateur hockey becomes the NHL cham…
1667: "Gold’s Color Comes from Relativity" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:35
Interesting Things with JC #1667: "Gold’s Color Comes from Relativity" – Gold atoms absorb blue and violet light because fast-moving electrons near the heavy nucleus shift energy levels, leaving reds, yellows, and greens…
1666: "A Billion Seconds" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03
Interesting Things with JC #1666: "A Billion Seconds" - A million seconds goes by pretty fast. A billion seconds is something else entirely. Once you truly understand the difference, it changes the way you look at time,…