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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1746: "Julie Newmar" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:36
Interesting Things with JC #1746: "Julie Newmar" – Julie had already won a Tony and trained for years in ballet before playing Catwoman, then used that same attention to movement and body shape to redesign women’s underg…
1745: "The Wow! Signal" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:18
Interesting Things with JC #1745: "The Wow! Signal" – A radio telescope in Ohio detected a powerful narrowband signal from the direction of Sagittarius for 72 seconds, matching the rise and fall expected from a fixed sou…
1744: "The Lemon Juice Heist" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:34
Interesting Things with JC #1744: "The Lemon Juice Heist" – McArthur Wheeler robs Pittsburgh banks with lemon juice on his face because he believes security cameras cannot see him. The cameras see him clearly.
1743: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:42
Interesting Things with JC #1743: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect" – Low performers overestimated their scores, but the famous “Mount Stupid” graph wasn’t part of the study, and researchers still debate what causes the effect…
1742: "The Milk Hill Spiral" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 4:43
Interesting Things with JC #1742: "The Milk Hill Spiral" – In a wheat field on Milk Hill, 409 separate circles form a six-sided spiral across roughly 780 to 900 feet of rolling ground. The circle sizes change as the patt…
1741: "The Night Hip-Hop Was Born" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:52
Interesting Things with JC #1741: "The Night Hip-Hop Was Born" – At a Bronx party in 1973, DJ Kool Herc notices that dancers come alive during the short drum breaks, but the breaks end within seconds. He uses two turntab…
1740: "Forty Six and 2" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:23
Interesting Things with JC #1740: "Forty Six and 2" – Tool’s “Forty Six & 2” starts with a shadow shedding its skin, moves through wounds being reopened, and hides a disputed idea about human chromosomes inside its title…
1739: "R&B in the Rain" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:48
Interesting Things with JC #1739: "R&B in the Rain" – The Temptations use rain to hide a man’s tears, but later R&B records keep putting people in the same weather for different reasons. Ann Peebles hears an absent lover…
1738: "The Swiss Army Knife Parcel Hook" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:49
Interesting Things with JC #1738: "The Swiss Army Knife Parcel Hook" – A small hook on the back of many Swiss Army Knives was designed to carry heavy string-tied parcels without cutting into your hand. Long after those p…