The John Batchelor Show

Friday 22 May 2015

Air Date: 
May 22, 2015

Photo, left: Monoprix above a Medieval cemetery (see Hour 4. Block D).  Paris: Past the racks of hair accessories on the ground floor of the Monoprix supermarket on the corner of the Rue Réaumur and the Boulevard de Sébastopol in the Second Arrondissement, there is a door marked "staff only".  Slip through that passageway and turn left down a spiraling metal staircase into the basement. Past pallets of juice and soda bottles, down another flight of stairs, you will find a grim reminder of Paris’s history: a mass grave, with row upon row of medieval skeletons, 316 in total.
Archaeologists believe the discovery, unearthed in January, is part of the cemetery of a medieval hospital called the Hôpital de la Trinité that used to stand nearby. The long-buried mass grave is a reminder that Paris, for all its surface grandeur, is still replete with undiscovered archaeological treasures, some grand, others much grislier. / Des travaux entrepris par le Monoprix de Réaumur-Sébastopol, à Paris, dans le 2ème arrondissement, qui se situe sur l'emplacement de l'ancien hôpital médiéval de la Trinité, ont permis de découvrir de nombreuses fosses et ossements humains liés au cimetière de l'hôpital.
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Hour One
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Nathaniel Popper, NYT Business Day, in re:  Just-released book, "Digital Gold," on bitcoin: it focusses on the fact that there's a lot of new information regarding Wall Street's putting energy into bitcoin (NYSE created an index this week; Goldman Sachs invested a few weeks back). The book is on how this crazy technology evolved from a plaything of hackers into something that's being taken seriously by power brokers. (1 of 2)
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Nathaniel Popper, NYT Business Day, in re:  Just-released book, "Digital Gold," on bitcoin: it focusses on the fact that there's a lot of new information regarding Wall Street's putting energy into bitcoin (NYSE created an index this week; Goldman Sachs invested a few weeks back). The book is on how this crazy technology evolved from a plaything of hackers into something that's being taken seriously by power brokers. (2 of 2)
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block C: Eddie Alterman, Car and Driver, in re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_300SL  & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_959
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 1, Block D:  David Dunlap, NYT, in re: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/nyregion/at-the-world-trade-center-a-view-from-the-summit-of-lower-manhattan.html?hpw&rref=nyregion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well / Early Views from the New World Trade Center Observatory
Hour Two
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 2, Block A:  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-warnings-to-us-plane-hint-of-rising-stakes-over-disputed-islands/2015/05/21/381fffd6-8671-420b-b863-57d092ccac2d_story.html (1 of 2)
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 2, Block B: Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinese-warnings-to-us-plane-hint-of-rising-stakes-over-disputed-islands/2015/05/21/381fffd6-8671-420b-b863-57d092ccac2d_story.html (2 of 2)
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 2, Block C:  Gene Marks, Washington Post, in re: America is missing one million entrepreneurs . . . where did they go?  http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/669525/s/46879f43/sc/28/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Cblogs0Cwonkblog0Cwp0C20A150C0A50C210Cameric0C/story01.htm
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Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 2, Block D:  Robert Zimmerman, behindtheblack.com, in re: Russians delay next Angara launch to replace Briz upper stage  The competition heats up? The Russians have delayed until late 2016 the first test flight of the heavy-lift version of their new Angara rocket so that they can fly it with its own new upper stage, rather than using the trouble-plagued Briz upper stage used on Proton.  In other words, they want to dump all the components of the Proton as soon as possible. Whether this will solve the quality control problems that seem to be systemic to their aerospace industry however remains questionable. If I was a commercial satellite company I would have as little faith in Angara, until it has proven itself through a number of launches.   X-37B launch a success  ULA’s Atlas 5 rocket successfully placed one of the Air Force’s X-37B mini-shuttles into orbit this morning.
Hour Three
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 3, Block A:  Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, in re:   http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/harry-siegel-occupy-cuomo-crooked-path-fairer-pay-article-1.2230016  Remember back in 2011, in the heyday of Occupy Wall Street, when the question echoing across America was, “what do they want?”  I flashed back to that looking out of the seventh-floor window from the state Labor Department office at Varick St., at the vacant plot where the occupiers made a last stand after their rough eviction from Zuccotti Park. A handful of diehards scaled the walls into the arms of the police. . . .
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 3, Block B:  Paul Gregory, Forbes & Hoover, in re: A Russian Crisis with No End in Sight, Thanks to Low Oil Prices and Sanctions
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 3, Block C:  Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal THE AMERICAS, in re: WSJ Editorial Board, Behind the Pope's Embrace of Castro
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 3, Block D: Paul Driessen, senior policy analyst for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org),  author of Eco-Imperialism: Green power - Black death, and coauthor of Cracking Big Green: Saving the world from the Save-the-Earth money machine.
Hour Four
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 4, Block A: Josh Kraushaar, National Journal political editor, in re:  Democrats have a Todd Akin problem.
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 4, Block B:  Henry I Miller, M.D., Hoover & Forbes.com, in re: "Bureaucrats Battle Science." 
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 4, Block C:  Adam Nagourney, NYT, in re: Brown’s Arid California, Thanks Partly to His Father  Gov. Jerry Brown is coping with the modern-day California that his father, Edmund G. Brown Sr., helped to create.
Friday   22 May 2015 / Hour 4, Block D:   Aurelien Breeden, NYT, in re: A Grisly Find Under a Supermarket Illuminates France’s Medieval History  A mass grave, thought to be part of a hospital cemetery, bears witness to the lives of ordinary Parisians during the Middle Ages.  /  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/world/europe/medieval-mass-grave-under-a-paris-supermarket-shines-a-light-on-citys-past.html?ref=science