Episode 14
Recent News
“Doritos sets record for longest 'cheese pull,’” Toronto Sun, September 20, 2023, https://torontosun.com/news/weird/doritos-sets-record-for-longest-cheese-pull
“RNA recovered from Tasmanian tiger—a first for extinct animal,” Science, September 20, 2023, https://www.science.org/content/article/rna-recovered-tasmanian-tiger-first-extinct-animal
“‘Demon’ Chucky doll arrested in Mexico for wielding real knife to scare people,” New York Post, September 23, 2023, https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/chucky-doll-arrested-in-mexico-for-wielding-knife-to-rob-people/
“Police in Mexico arrest and handcuff Chucky doll after series of robberies,” Independent, September 29, 2023, https://news.yahoo.com/police-mexico-arrest-handcuff-chucky-184151734.html?guccounter=1
“Scientists recover RNA from an extinct species for the first time,” CNN, September 20, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/19/world/scientists-recover-rna-tasmanian-tiger-thylacine-scn/index.html
“Stage Once Used by Shakespeare Discovered by Chance,” Daily Beast, October 5, 2023, https://www.thedailybeast.com/stage-once-used-by-shakespeare-discovered-by-chance
Old News
Anderson, Heather Arndt. “How 2 Oregon Brothers’ Efforts to Mitigate Food Waste Created the Beloved Tater Tot.” OPB. 2/2/2023. https://www.opb.org/article/2023/02/02/tater-tots-created-oregon-potato-scraps-ore-ida/. Accessed 8/8/2023.
Andrews, Evans. “What Killed Harry Houdini?” HISTORY. A&E Television Networks. 10/31/2016. Updated 8/2/2023. https://www.history.com/news/what-killed-harry-houdini. Accessed 8/7/2023.
Atkinson, Stuart. “The Story of Félicette, the First Cat in Space.” Sky at Night Magazine. BBC. 10/14/2022. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-missions/felicette-first-cat-space. Accessed 8/8/2023.
Bellis, Mary. “October Calendar of Famous Inventions and Birthdays.” Thought Co. Updated 7/3/2019. https://www.thoughtco.com/today-in-history-october-calendar-1992499. Accessed 8/8/2023.
“Harry Houdini.” Biography. Updated 4/15/2021. https://www.biography.com/celebrities/harry-houdini. Accessed 8/7/2023.
“Lightning Kills 11 Soccer Players.” The Seattle Times. 10/28/1998. https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19981028&slug=2780150. Accessed 8/8/2023.
Markel, Howard. “What Caused Harry Houdini’s Mysterious Death?” PBS News Hour. 3/24/2019. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/what-caused-harry-houdinis-mysterious-death. Accessed 8/7/2023.
Perry, Tod. “How Two Brothers’ Attempts to Eliminate Food Waste Resulted in the Beloved Tater Tot.” Up Worthy. 2/3/2023. https://www.upworthy.com/tater-tots-history. Accessed 8/8/2023.
Puiu, Tibi. “Remembering Félicette: The First Cat in Space.” ZME Science. 4/29/2023. https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/natural-sciences/animals/pets/meet-felicette-the-first-cat-in-space/. Accessed 8/8/2023.
Sheikh, Knvul. “The Lightning Capital of the World gets Struck 603 Times Per Square Mile Every Year.” Mashable. 5/11/2026. https://mashable.com/article/most-lightning-prone-place-in-the-world. Accessed 8/8/2023.
Tanner, Marcus. “Lightning Kills an Entire Football Team.” Independent. 10/29/1998. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/lightning-kills-an-entire-football-team-1181336.html. Accessed 8/8/2023.
“Two Newspaper Articles Announcing Houdini’s Death on October 31, 1926.” Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/resource/varshoud.hs051/?r=0.256,0.368,0.828,0.472,0. Accessed 8/7/2023.
“What was the First Animal Sent Into Space?” Royal Museums Greenwich. https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-was-first-animal-space#:~:text=As%20well%20as%20the%20fruit,monkeys%20and%20pig%2Dtailed%20monkeys.. Accessed 8/8/2023.
Wu, Katherine J. “Félicette, the First Cat in Space, Finally Gets a Memorial.” Smithsonian Magazine. 1/28/2020. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/felicette-first-cat-space-finally-gets-memorial-180974062/. Accessed 8/8/2023.
Our Big Story
“All About Candy Corn.” Always a Treat. https://alwaysatreat.com/candy-moments/halloween-central/everything-candy-corn/. Accessed 8/21/2023. D
Blum, Deborah. “A Colorful Little Tale of Halloween Poison.” Wired. 10/31/2011. https://www.wired.com/2011/10/a-colorful-little-tale-of-halloween-poison/. Accessed 8/21/2023.
Chung, Jen. “Halloween Legend” Long Island Lady Who Gave Trick-Or-Treater Arsenic”. Gotham it’s. 10/30/2011. https://gothamist.com/food/halloween-legend-long-island-lady-who-gave-trick-or-treater-arsenic. Accessed 8/21/2023.
Debczak, Michele. “How Candy Corn Became a Halloween Staple.” Mental Floss. 9/20/2021. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/648356/candy-corn-history. Accessed 8/18/2023.
Garner, Nicole. “Hard, Unpopular Cob Corn Couldn’t Hold a Kernel to Candy Corn in its Beginnings.” Mental Floss. 10/30/2015. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70515/hard-unpopular-cob-corn-couldnt-hold-kernel-candy-corn-its-beginnings. Accessed 8/18/2023.
Kawash, Samira. “How Candy and Halloween Became Best Friends.” The Atlantic. 10/21/2010. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/10/how-candy-and-halloween-became-best-friends/64895/. Accessed 8/18/2023.
Kelly, DB, and Becki Robins. “The Strange History of Candy Corn.” Mashed. 9/14/2020. https://www.mashed.com/132341/the-strange-history-of-candy-corn/. Accessed 8/18/2023.
Pasquinia, Maria. “Candy Corn Named America’s Least Favorite Halloween Candy in New Survey.” People. 10/3/2019. https://people.com/food/candy-corn-worst-halloween-candy/. Accessed 8/18/2023.
“Poisoned Halloween Candy”. Snopes. 11/1/2000. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/halloween-non-poisonings/. Accessed 8/21/2023.
Rupp, Rebecca. “The Saccharine History of Candy Corn.” National Geographic. 10/27/2015. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/the-saccharine-history-of-candy-corn?loggedin=true&rnd=1692373177430. Accessed 8/18/2023.
“Samhain,” History.com, September 12, 2023, https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/samhain
“How Trick-or-Treating Became a Halloween Tradition,” History.com, September 29, 2023, https://www.history.com/news/halloween-trick-or-treating-origins