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The Backstory: Radio: A voice in the dark
Stop and think about the impact of radio on our world. For thousands of years, storytelling, music, news, and entertainment were all in person. Sudde…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Backstory: Mafia murder in mid-century Las Vegas
You love gangster TV shows and movies like The Sopranos, The Godfather, and Goodfellas? You love Las Vegas? Bugsy Siegel was the mobster/visionary wh…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Backstory: The Big Exit
It seems like iconic, larger-than-life folks should meet larger-than-life demises. But that's not always the case. There are huge names who died from…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Backstory: Surviving a 35,000-foot free fall
Hearing about a panel on an Alaska Airlines jet popping off mid-air gives us all a serious case of the creeps. But imagine you’re in a jet at almost …
2 years, 5 months ago
The Backstory: The unexplained blast that shook the world
On a beautiful summer morning in 1908, a massive explosion hit Siberia. It downed 80 million trees and lit the night sky 3,000 miles away in Sweden. …
2 years, 5 months ago
The Backstory: The upside of having the blues
Depression is nothing new, although we call it by a different name than they did centuries ago, and we have some new ways of treating it. But some of…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Backstory: Gruesome mementos of the wild west
It’s the Wild West and the first democratic governor of Wyoming, as well as the state's first female doctor, have ties to vicious train robber Big No…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Backstory: Suffering for beauty
We’ll do anything to look fabulous these days, but we have nothing on our ancestors. They used face creams made from animal and human pee. They glued…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Backstory: How did Christmas turn into trees and egg nog?
We all have our Christmas traditions, but how did Santa Claus, Christmas trees, and George Washington’s recipe for heavily spiked eggnog rule the sea…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Backstory: Hitler's obsession with beauty
Beauty intrigues everyone, but a desire for control, massive ego, and hatred drive some to steal beauty belonging to others. That was Hitler’s motiva…
2 years, 6 months ago