Airplay
with Dave White

Jack Dalton was well-positioned to capitalize on the Klondike Gold Rush. He was already in the region, knew the land and its people, and he had no shortage of big ideas.

Dalton created a trail that he believed would be the best way for prospectors to reach the gold fields. It turned out to be the best way to get cattle to Dawson City and stave off hunger.

Yukon writer Michael Gates has spent years researching Jack Dalton's life, and has traveled the remains of the trail that bears Dalton's name.

Gates has written a new book, Jack Dalton's Gold Rush Trail.

Click on the link below to hear him speak with Dave.

Everyone eventually has their day, even nerds.

Once derided as perennially uncool, hopeless outsiders, nerds now rule. Just look at Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook is a multi-billionaire and one of the most powerful thinkers on the planet.

Facebook's IPO got our pop culture watcher Geoff Pevere digging into the history of nerds, trying to figure out when the tide turned for the pocket protector set.

Click on the link below to hear him speak with Dave.

Tim Falconer is spending his time as the writer in residence at Berton House in Dawson City working on his music.

Falconer has been diagnosed as tone deaf, but that hasn't stopped him from become a huge and very knowledgeable music fan. He's using his time at Berton House to work on a book about his condition, and his attempts to learn how to sing.

Click on the link below to hear Tim speak with Dave.

The brighter a robin's egg, apparently, the better chance the little offspring that emerges has of survival.

It has nothing to do with the strength of the egg or anything. It actually all comes down to sex.

Click on the link below to hear Airplay's science columnist Michael Bhardwaj talk to Dave about some new research.

Team Yukon has been punching well above its weight at the national Skills Canada competition for years, and 2012 was no exception.

Despite sending the smallest team in the competition, Team Yukon finished with more medals than some of Canada's largest jurisdictions.

Dan Curtis runs Skills Canada in the Yukon. Click on the link below to hear him speak with Dave.

The Adaka Cultural Festival will be celebrating its second birthday in June, and celebrating in style.

Organizers have lined up a wide range of aboriginal talent for the event, everything from traditional crafts to hip hop.

Click on the link below to hear the festival's Katie Johnson speak with Dave about some of the performers who will be coming to the festival this year.

This week Airplay's Montreal music scene insider Adrian Bergman profiles a big band with an old sound.

Click on the link below to hear Adrian tell Dave about The Unsettlers.

Once thought to be little more than a tool for social networking, more and more employers are now relying on the website LinkedIn to find workers.

And that means it's becoming more important to manage your profile properly.

Click on the link below to hear Airplay's business columnist Donna Guzik speak with Dave about LinkedIn's growing importance.

You may think reliving a painful and traumatic experience is the last thing a soldier with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) would like to undergo, but studies have shown it can actually help them overcome the disorder.

Canadian soliders will soon have access to virtual technologies developed for the U.S. military.

Skip Rizzo is a pioneer in virtual reality therapy, and a clinical psychologist at the University of Southern California.

Click on the link below to hear him speak with Dave.

The premise of the online game Minecraft is deceptively simple; you have to survive by building what you need within the game's 3D world.

But here's the thing, you can build almost anything, and some of the game's most devoted followers take that to extremes.

Click on the link below to hear technology columnist Anshuman Iddamsetty talk to Dave about Minecraft's incredible appeal.