Alan Cormack News Today

The first entertainment broadcast was in the Bay area where musical concerts were broadcasted by dangling a microphone in front of a wind-up gramophone.

John Metcalfe, Bay Area News Group

Walk into a nondescript building in Alameda and you'll find yourself plunged into an electronic wonderland of Inspector Gadget-type widgets and gizmos. This is the Bay Area Radio Museum and Hall of Fame, an institution devoted to everything under the sun related to wireless communication, stretching back 120 years to the invention of radio.

One runner was chased by monsters. Another went blind. In the darkness, nothing is as simple as it seems.

<strong>In today’s Fiver:</strong> A Big Cup rundown, Haaland/Halland and more

Baffinland Iron Mines' request to boost its production again this year at its Mary River mine is getting mixed reaction from some Nunavut communities.

Former Rhodes University ichthyology professor Mike Bruton has an abiding interest in science, inventions and East London’s “old four legs”, and in the past year has published two books to prove it. Bruton may be 76 (though he says he feels 30 years younger), but age has not dampened his curiosity.