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CAPTAIN BEFORE KIRK
Before James T. Kirk ever sat in the captain’s chair, there was Christopher Pike.
In 1964, Jeffrey Hunter stepped onto the bridge of the Enterprise fo…
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GREENLAND: WHEN WEATHER BECAME A WEAPON
Before Greenland became a fixture of modern geopolitics, millions of radio listeners already knew that this vast frozen island mattered.
In the 1930s,…
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THE BLUE LAMP
Before British television had Dixon of Dock Green, there was The Blue Lamp.
Released by Ealing Studios in 1950, The Blue Lamp took audiences into the …
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JACK BENNY: SUNDAY NIGHTS AT SEVEN
For decades, Sunday evening belonged to Jack Benny.
Millions of Americans gathered around their radios to enter a wonderfully familiar world of Mary L…
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Downstairs at The Nazz
In the basement of Notre Dame’s LaFortune Student Center was a little room called The Nazz.
On weekend nights, students crowded in to hear other stude…
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WHEN MUSICAL WORLDS COLLIDE
Sometime around 1981, a record arrived at WSND-FM at Notre Dame that made everyone in the room laugh.
John Denver and Plácido Domingo.
On paper, it see…
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Do Not Open for 5,000 Years
In 1939, as the New York World’s Fair promised a dazzling “World of Tomorrow,” Americans buried a time capsule intended to remain sealed for 5,000 ye…
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Sherlock Holmes and the Unfinished Engine
A steam locomotive is being built. Someone appears determined to sabotage it. But Sherlock Holmes begins to suspect the opposite: what if the saboteu…
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Can a Machine Make Something Beautiful?
Can artificial intelligence make something beautiful—or can it only imitate beauty?
Catholic songwriter Justin West writes the words, then uses AI to …
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THE OTHER SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Today we remember W. Somerset Maugham for Of Human Bondage, The Razor’s Edge and The Painted Veil. But there was another Somerset Maugham—one of the …
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