Podcast Transcript The Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest and a UNESCO World Heritage site spanning the border of India and Bangladesh. This landscape is home to nearly ten million people who live alongside some of Earth’s deadliest predators. Driven by chronic poverty, residents of the region are forced to extreme lengths to survive …
Podcast Transcript One of the most popular music groups over the last half-century is also one of the most unlikely. They were seldom played on the radio, almost never appeared on network television, and had only one song ever make the Billboard Top 100. Yet they have more Top 40 albums than any other group …
Podcast Transcript March is upon us. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days are getting longer, temperatures are getting warmer, and people are about to go nuts over college basketball for several weeks. There is an old saying that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. That might be true, …
Podcast Transcript Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most influential and haunting voices in American literature, a writer whose imagination reshaped horror, crime writing, science fiction, and the modern short story Poe lived a life marked by poverty, personal loss, and professional struggle, yet from that turbulence he forged works of enduring power such …
I hope that everyone is enjoying their holidays. Since I’ve arrived back in Wisconsin I’ve been spending my time editing photos and trying to catch up on work which has piled up over the last few months. I had over 4,500 from the last 2 months and I’m now down to 2,000. You can see …
Podcast Transcript One of the most compelling stories in American professional sports is the rise of the American Basketball Association, or the ABA. Founded in 1967, the ABA emerged as a rival to the NBA, which had become predictable and stale. The ABA emerged as a flamboyant contrast. Fans packed tiny gyms to watch the …
Podcast Transcript Marvel Comics has been one of the most prolific comics publishers over the last century. Not only have they been one of the biggest comic publishers, but they have also created some oft he most famous fictional characters in the modern world. Popular superheroes like Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Avengers have cemented …
Podcast Transcript Almost everyone knows that the first people to climb Mount Everest were Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, who reached the summit and returned in 1953. However, some believe another group might have reached the summit nineteen years before they did. It is a debate which had raged for decades, and recently discovered evidence …
When the New Seven Wonders of the World came out, I added my two cents—it wasn’t always favorable, because there’s a lot that doesn’t make much sense in how that global contest panned out. Buy that list inspired me to look the countries—including the USA—that I visit with an eye toward the natural, manmade, and …