People have been milling flour and baking bread variations for literally millennia. The Erie Canal has been moving wheat since day one. And yet, a few miles from the canal and it was almost impossible to find local wheat on my little food journey.

In this episode of Was Is Could Be: Some history on the industrialization of flour.

In March 1974, a Japanese bookseller flew to the island of Lubang in the Philippines to order the surrender of a Japanese intelligence officer. The officer — Hiroo Onoda — was still carrying out his mission from World War II — nearly 30 years after the war’s end.

So why, 30 years later, were Japanese men still fighting in that war?

This is, actually is a story about information — how we get it, and what we choose to believe. But as I researched the topic of news history and the rapid changes we’ve experienced in the news, I think the more important question became this: is having a lot of news sources to choose from really all that bad? Could we ever go back to having less information at our fingertips? And should we? Or do we risk ending up like Hiroo Onoda - isolated in a jungle?

I talked to a news expert, a news junkie, and an expert on depression to find possible answers to these questions.

Can a love letter written by someone else really show your feelings?

How has the art of sharing our deepest feelings changed since the time of Beethoven?