The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam is the gripping story of what was thought to be the biggest gold discovery in history… until it wasn’t. A co-production from the BBC World Service and CBC, the new nine-part podcast is hosted by Suzanne Wilton and launches on 19 May 2024. When Canadian mining company Bre-X announced
WILMINGTON — Wilmington Director of Student Support Services Alice Brown-LeGrand and principals Kate Bissell and Kristen Walsh presented at the School Committee during their meeting on Jan. 17 about a
WILMINGTON — Wilmington’s six elementary school principals detailed the goals created as part of their new school improvement plans for the School Committee last week.
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WHAT SOUND does the solar system make? Usually only children, scientists and philosophers ask that sort of question. A whole branch of Renaissance thought speculated about the unheard “music of the spheres” that the planets in their orbits supposedly played; the notion obsessed the great astronomer Johannes Kepler. Now listeners have the chance to hear at least one song from the music of the spheres with mortal ears helped a little by extreme low-frequency recordings and computer-aided electronic music.
To capture this celestial soundtrack, “Songs of the Sky”, an episode from BBC Radio 3’s “Between the Ears” strand, takes a winter journey through central Alaska. Within a crisply atmospheric soundscape of crunching snow, splitting ice and howling wolves, the programme, produced by Kate Bissell, shows how a wildlife ranger and a hi-tech composer collaborated to create otherworldly music out of the Northern Lights, or aurora borealis. The lights make the Arctic