1752: "The Blind Man"

1752: "The Blind Man"

Author: JC August 22, 2026 Duration: 2:36
Interesting Things with JC #1752: "The Blind Man" – A blind man’s eyes are touched, and he begins to see people, but they look like trees walking around. His eyes are touched again, and his vision becomes clear, leaving a moment when what he sees is real but incomplete.

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1771: "Debut of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:28
Interesting Things with JC #1771: "Debut of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" - The original Fresh Prince theme was much longer. In the video for the opening, Will packed and then flew first class, landed in LA and met his ri…
1770: "When a Parasite Rewires Behavior to Spread Itself" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:26
Interesting Things with JC #1770: "When a Parasite Rewires Behavior to Spread Itself" – Infected Texas field crickets were sterile or producing barely moving sperm, but they kept mating, and infected males courted female…
1769: "Football Brain Injury Cover Up" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:28
Interesting Things with JC #1769: "Football Brain Injury Cover Up" – Dr. Bennet Omalu found CTE in Mike Webster’s brain, and the NFL’s concussion committee challenged the published finding and called for its retraction.…
1768: "The Science of Jealousy" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:54
Interesting Things with JC #1768: "The Science of Jealousy" – Jealousy can fire before there is proof: attention shifts, suspicion locks in, and the brain starts tracking details and possible rivals. The threat may not b…
1767: "The Spider-Man of Paris" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:16
Interesting Things with JC #1767: "The Spider-Man of Paris" – A four-year-old boy hangs from a fourth-floor balcony in Paris. Mamoudou Gassama climbs the building with his bare hands and reaches him in about 30 seconds.
1766: "Autistici/Inventati - The Network Behind the Network" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:33
Interesting Things with JC #1766: "Autistici/Inventati - The Network Behind the Network" – Autistici/Inventati runs encrypted email, private chats, websites and other infrastructure designed to make users harder to monit…
1765: "The FBI Surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr." [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:51
Interesting Things with JC #1765: "The FBI Surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr." – The FBI wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr. without a criminal charge and failed to establish that he or the SCLC was controlled by commu…
1764: "The Treaty of Paris" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:20
Interesting Things with JC #1764: "The Treaty of Paris" – Britain signs the Treaty of Paris recognizing all thirteen American states as “free sovereign and Independent States” and giving up its claim to govern them. The…
1763: "Looking for Quantum Gravity with Light" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:02
Interesting Things with JC #1763: "Looking for Quantum Gravity with Light" – Scientists are firing lasers through interferometers to detect quantum gravity without reaching the Planck scale. QUEST found nothing, now more…
1762: "The Man Who Guarded the Skies During the Cold War" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:26
Interesting Things with JC #1762: "The Man Who Guarded the Skies During the Cold War" – In 1975, Daniel “Chappie” James Jr. took command of NORAD as its radar and warning systems searched North America’s approaches for S…