1670: "Napster"

1679: "The Fermi Paradox: Why Haven't We Found Anyone?"

Interesting Things with JC #1679: "The Fermi Paradox: Why Haven't We Found Anyone?" – The Milky Way contains billions of stars and planets, and many civilizations could have had billions of years more time than humanity to develop, yet every search for intelligent life has come back empty while the universe continues to offer more places where it could exist.

1678: "The Formal Study of ESP"

Interesting Things with JC #1678: "The Formal Study of ESP" – A Duke University student is identifying symbols on hidden cards without seeing them, his scores repeatedly exceed what chance predicts, and the results trigger years of scrutiny as researchers try to determine whether the effect survives stricter testing.

1677: "The Benben Stone"

Interesting Things with JC #1677: "The Benben Stone" – A sacred stone once stood at the center of Egypt’s solar temple, marking the place where creation was believed to begin. The stone disappeared, but its shape continued to appear atop pyramids and obelisks for thousands of years.

1676: "Thomas Sowell"

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 disconnect between intentions and outcomes keeps appearing in case after case, pushing Thomas Sowell to question ideas he once believed and follow the evidence wherever it leads.

1675: "The Green Children of Woolpit"

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 child dies and the other survives, her account of Saint Martin’s Land makes the case harder to settle.