1763: "Looking for Quantum Gravity with Light"

1763: "Looking for Quantum Gravity with Light"

Author: JC September 2, 2026 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 sensitive experiments are looking for fluctuations hidden in the light.

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1756: "What Happens When You Skip Sleep?" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:40
Interesting Things with JC #1756: "What Happens When You Skip Sleep?" – Stay awake long enough and adenosine signaling increases sleep pressure while caffeine can temporarily block the feeling of it. Attention, judgment,…
1755: "How Do Dogs Know How to Herd?" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:45
Interesting Things with JC #1755: "How Do Dogs Know How to Herd?" – A Border Collie can crouch, stare, and move around sheep before learning herding commands. Selective breeding reshaped parts of the canine hunting seque…
1754: "Jose Alberto Gutierrez" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:47
Interesting Things with JC #1754: "Jose Alberto Gutierrez" – Bogotá garbage collector José Alberto Gutiérrez keeps pulling discarded books from the trash until his home becomes a free library and the books begin reaching…
1753: "Charlie" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:08
Interesting Things with JC #1753: "Charlie" – The name is very common today, but it kept changing as it passed through different languages.
1752: "The Blind Man" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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…
1751: "The Wasps That Know Your Face" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 0:00
Interesting Things with JC #1751: "The Wasps That Know Your Face" – Northern paper wasps recognize individual nestmates by their faces. Change a familiar face, and the colony responds with aggression until it learns who…
1750: "Trebizond" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 0:00
Interesting Things with JC #1750: "Trebizond" – Ships carry coffee, copper, cloth, salt, and other goods through Trebizond while steep roads climb from the Black Sea harbor into the Pontic Mountains. The empire that once…
1749: "Ouzel Lake and the Dangers of Alpine Swimming" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:46
Interesting Things with JC #1749: "Ouzel Lake and the Dangers of Alpine Swimming" – Ouzel Lake can look inviting after a 4.9-mile summer hike, but the mountain water can remain cold enough to trigger an involuntary gasp…
1748: "Follow the Leader" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:47
Interesting Things with JC #1748: "Follow the Leader" – August 18th, 1998 a legendary album dropped. Korn’s original Follow the Leader CD starts with twelve five-second tracks containing no music. A full minute passes be…
1747: "Davy Crockett Before the Legend" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:25
Interesting Things with JC #1747: "Davy Crockett Before the Legend" – Davy Crockett was becoming a legend while he was still alive. He claimed 105 bears in less than a year, fought Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, an…