Photo, left:  Traditional qamutik (sled), Cape Dorset, Nunavut.  Inuit Circumpolar Council. See: Hour 4, Blocks A& B, Jerry Hendrix of CNAS, on the Russian Arctic  http://intpolicydigest.org/2016/01/24/5-ways-russia-is-positioning-to-dominate-the-arctic/
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One.
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Liz Peek, Fiscal Times, in re:  At first debate, Trump couldn’t wipe that smug grin off Hillary’s face. But he came close      Donald Trump has plenty of material; it’s easy to show why Hillary Clinton is not fit to be president. We're counting on him for round two.  http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/09/28/Hillary-Has-Lock-Black-Vote-May-Have-Alienated-White-Voters
Here’s the bottom line on the first presidential debate of 2016: Maybe Donald Trump should have done more prep. On so many fronts he should have been able to wipe that smug grin off Hillary’s face; he did not rise to the challenge. Both candidates had singular ambitions in this confrontation; neither achieved what they might have hoped, but Hillary, aided and abetted by Lester Holt, came out ahead.  . . .
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block B:   Jim McTague, Barron’s Washington, in re: . . . Richard Yuengling, Jr., owner of D. G. Yuengling & Son the oldest operating brewing company in the United States (established in 1829) says that in America, companies are leaving the US not because of labor cost but because the sheer volume of regulation and taxes that make it physically impossible to function in this environment.  We should eliminate the corporate tax entirely and just tax incomes. A no-brainer.  Whoever is the next president, there’ll immediately be a recession because of the Fed, which is s political operation
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block C:  Paul Gregory, Hoover, in re: The Dutch-led investigation into the MH17 shootdown. Frozen conflict of the NATO states, now spread to Syria and China, which h routinely does military exercises with Russia.  Military-Commander Bezzler and aide to a missile crew in eastern Ukraine: “The bird is approaching us” and “The bird is approaching.”  “Is it one?” “Yes it's one.”     http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2016/09/29/why-putin-wil...
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 1, Block D:  Peter Berkowitz, Hoover, in re: "A Salutary Thesis Overestimates the Bible, and Underestimates Modern Thought," Mosaic Magazine, Sept. 26
 
Hour Two
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 2, Block A: Michael E Vlahos, Global Security Studies program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Arts and Science; in re:  How can you tell the Empire is falling around you?  The Delian League, founded in 477 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, members numbering between 150[2] 173,[3] to 330 [4] under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece. The League's modern name derives from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple and where the treasury stood until, in a symbolic gesture, Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC.
Shortly after its inception, Athens began to use the League's navy for its own purposes. This behavior frequently led to conflict between Athens and the less powerful members of the League. By 431 BC, Athens' heavy-handed control of the Delian League prompted the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War; the League was dissolved upon the war's conclusion in 404 BC under the direction of Lysander, the Spartan commander.  (1 of 2)
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 2, Block B:   Michael E Vlahos, Global Security Studies program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Arts and Science  (2 of 2)
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 2, Block C:   K S Kosik, UCSB Biology, University of California Santa Barbara; in re:  A path toward understanding neurodegeneration  (article by K S Kosik, T J Sejnowski, M. E. Raichle, A. Ciechanover, D Baltimore).  Science  26 Aug 2016: Vol. 353, Issue 6302, pp. 872-873 ; DOI: 10.1126/science.aai7622 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6302/872
The specter of neurodegenerative disease, particularly Alzheimer's disease, haunts the developed world and exacts a poorly documented toll on underdeveloped countries. With so little progress made toward finding a cure—or, better, a prevention—it is time to rethink the path to progress. This requires a change in perspective on the type of research that will make a difference. The lesson learned from cancer research is that a new commitment means rethinking the fundamental approach to the disease. Cancer research moved from taking potshots with, usually, cytotoxic drugs to a bottom-up, mechanism-based approach in which newly acquired genetic knowledge played the largest role. Today, that effort has produced a platform of knowledge from which academia and industry are drawing. For neurodegenerative disease, the genetic approach remains valid but the problem must concurrently be approached from a complementary, robust cell biological perspective, focusing on the cellular cascade of events that lead to neuronal cell death.
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 2, Block D:  K S Kosik, UCSB Biology, University of California Santa Barbara (2 of 2)
 
Hour Three
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 3, Block A:   Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils by Lydia Pyne.  An irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestors
Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of these discoveries live quietly in museum collections, there are a few that have become world-renowned celebrity personas—ambassadors of science that speak to public audiences. In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven such famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today.
Drawing from archives, museums, and interviews, Pyne builds a cultural history for each celebrity fossil—from its discovery to its afterlife in museum exhibits to its legacy in popular culture. These seven include the three-foot tall “hobbit” from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba, and Lucy—each embraced and celebrated by generations, and vivid examples of how discoveries of how our ancestors have been received, remembered, and immortalized. 
With wit and insight, Pyne brings to life each fossil, and how it is described, put on display, and shared among scientific communities and the broader public. This fascinating, endlessly entertaining book puts the impact of paleoanthropology into new context, a reminder of how our past as a species continues to affect, in astounding ways, our present culture and imagination.   https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Skeletons-Evolution-Worlds-Fossils/dp/0525429859 (1 of 4)
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 3, Block B:  Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils by Lydia Pyne.  (2 of 4)
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 3, Block C:  Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils by Lydia Pyne.  (3 of 4)
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 3, Block D:  Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils by Lydia Pyne.  (4 of 4)
 
Hour Four
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 4, Block A:  Jerry Hendrix, CNAS, in re:  Russia Arctic  http://intpolicydigest.org/2016/01/24/5-ways-russia-is-positioning-to-dominate-the-arctic/
Canada and Russia Arctic   http://www.680news.com/2016/09/29/liberals-plan-arctic-co-operation-with-russia-but-more-northern-work-needed/
USN Arctic   http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/20/politics/gallery/u-s-military-arctic-exercise-icex/  ;  http://www.janes.com/article/63631/us-navy-arctic-operations-mainly-limited-to-undersea
USMC Arctic  https://news.usni.org/2016/09/29/chosin_marine_corps_korea  (1 of 2)
Henry J. Hendrix ("Jerry"), Ph.D,. an active-duty United States Navy Captain, is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Defense Strategies and Assessments Program at the Center for a New American Security.
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 4, Block B:  Jerry Hendrix, CNAS (2 of 2)
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 4, Block C: Richard A Epstein, Hoover Institution, Chicago Law, NYU Law, in re:  http://www.hoover.org/research/governments-civil-rights-bullies (1 of 2)
Friday  30 September 2016 / Hour 4, Block D:   Richard A Epstein, Hoover Institution, Chicago Law, NYU Law, in re:  http://www.hoover.org/research/governments-civil-rights-bullies (2 of 2)
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