Monday, October 29, 2012

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today



On this day in 1938 Orson Welles, best known these days for his role as the narrator in the 1980s animated transformers film, broadcast his radio play of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. The play told the story of alien invasion through a series of faux news bulletins and this fooled many American's who had missed the start into thinking the Earth really was being invaded.

And now the news:
  • My theory is he's a relative: Monkey is dead ringe...
  • Honey-bees found to have bite that stuns
  • Apeman of the Amazon
  • Brazil: Saving endangered monkey helps forest
  • Zimbabwe weighs cost of too many elephants
  • Whale Racket: Sounding out How Loud the Oceans Wer...
  • NYC Museum Celebrates Teddy Roosevelt's Conservati...
  • Size Does Matter in Sexual Selection, at Least Amo...
  • Firefighters in nutty squirrel rescue

  • The play in full, epic even today:

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