Episode 12: The Rays
Roy Beebe was a Long Beach agricultural scientist with a predilection for giant vegetables--and, apparently, harnessing the power of cosmic rays--all in the name of optimal health. Whatever that means. And, in post-WWII America? People were ready to give his inventions a go.
Written, researched, produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie
Hosted and edited by Laurah Norton
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