Thursday June 27, 2013
(Photo: Sheremetyevo International Airport Russia) John Batchelor is away this week. Please see the podcasts for author interviews.
Schedules
Wednesday June 26, 2013
(Photo: St. Andrews Castle, North Sea.) John Batchelor is away for the week.
Tuesday June 25, 2013
(Photo: Russian Proverb.) John Batchelor is away for the week.
Monday June 24, 2013
(Photo: Super Moon over Manhattan.) John Batchelor is away for the week.
Sunday 23 June 2013
Photo, above In 1910, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a small crew of men embarked upon the infamous Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole, only to arrive there on January 17, 1912, and discover that a Norwegian expedition had beaten them to the feat. To add tragedy to letdown, the crew never...
Saturday 22 June 2013
Photo, above: Khrushchev and Castro JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 22 June / Hour 1, Block A: The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Secret White House Tapes by David G. Coleman (1 of 4) John F. Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis has been...
Friday 21 June 2013
Photo, above: Medieval Irish illumination; see: Hour 3, Block C, Sid Perkins, Science magazine, on Science, snails, and climate. Of Monks, Volcanoes, and Very Cold Weather JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 21 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, in re: U.S. charges Edward...
Thursday 20 June 2013
Photo, above: Ethiopia’s Contested Dam Project on the Nile River: in March 2011, when Egypt was consumed by domestic unrest, Ethiopia announced it would soon begin construction on a hydroelectric dam along the Blue Nile River, one of two main tributaries for the Nile. The Grand Ethiopian...
Wednesday 19 June 2013
PRESIDENT OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHOCKS ACADEME AND POLITICAL CIRCLES Photo, above: John Sexton, president of New York University - see: Hour 1, Block B, Bob Fu, president of China Aid, in re: Chen Guang-chen, a blind freedom-fighter who fled to the US, was received warmly by NYU, and now . . "...
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Fifty-five million years ago, a fossil thought to be the earliest-discovered ancestor of small tree-dwelling primates called tarsiers; even at that early time, the tarsier and anthropoid [i.e., our human] groups had split apart. Picture above: how the ancient primate might have looked, in its...