1669: "The Rare Blue Moon"

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.

1674: "Subproject 68 and the Acoustic Masking Trials"

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.

1673: "There Is No Universal Now"

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 event. What appears simultaneous to one observer does not appear simultaneous to another, and the universe continues without a single present moment everyone shares.