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Minnesota’s short growing season makes it tough to run an orchard here. But thanks to the University of Minnesota’s fruit breeding program, there are a growing number of varieties that can withstand our winters. MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel learns the story behind the wildly successful Honeycrisp apple and its U of M-born cousins. [Read Transcript...]
James Arness and Peter Graves, the handsome brothers from South Minneapolis, made it big in Hollywood movies and their respective roles in the TV series Gunsmoke and Mission Impossible. MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel learns how they got from Hennepin Avenue to Hollywood. [Read Transcript...]
Before railroads were built through southwestern Minnesota, settlers on the plains had to build their houses using the materials at hand. Often, that meant using sod clumps as building blocks. MN90 Producer Andi McDaniel gets a tour of a mocked-up “sod house” modeled after one by early settlers. [Read Transcript...]
Seymour Cray (1925-1996) led the design of the world’s first commercial supercomputer in the late 1950s. By the 1970s, his company, Cray Research, based in Minneapolis and Chippewa Falls, Wisc., was the world’s leading maker of supercomputers. Cray’s machines were known for their elegance and simplicity, but most of all for their speed. MN90 producer Marisa Helms tells us Cray was known as a quirky genius whose innovations changed the world of supercomputing forever. [Read Transcript...]
