Just what happened to the “death rayâ€� or “particle beam weaponâ€� that Nicola Tesla had been working on for years before he died in 1943? That’s the subject of Marianne Macy’s in-depth interview of Mac Seifer, the author of the new book Tesla: Wizard at War and the earlier biography Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla— Biography of a Genius. Seifer spent decades trying to track down the answer to that and related questions. This complex but fascinating tale even involves one John G. Trump, MIT professor and uncle of the future U.S. president, and much, much more. Not nearly as important, but still quite puzzling, is The Mystery of 96.7 MHz, a Polish radio station on the FM dial which from October 2017 to June 2018 broadcast “hours and hours of beeps and buzzes interspersed with random snippets of voices that sounded like old recordings of John F. Kennedy, Walter Cronkite, or Martin Luther King.” Why? Who was behind it? Would you believe an outfit called Community Alliance of Tenants? Read on. (PH)
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