The John Batchelor Show

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Tuesday 13 August 2013

  Picture, above: ET3, or Evacuated Tube Transport Technology.  Last year at an event in Los Angeles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed he'd come up with the idea for an entirely new form of transportation. He called it the Hyperloop, and here's how he described it: . . . How would you like something...

Monday 12 August 2013

Photo, above:  Annual Perseid meteor shower in aurora. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday  12 August  2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: the al Qaeda conference call, as reported on the Daily Beast.  We...

Sunday 11 August 2013

Photo, above:  His Holines the Fourteenth Dalai Lama at a teaching.   Background: tankas, sacred scrolls in the Tibetan/Vajrayana Buddhist tradition.   JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Photo below: a parliament of owls. Sunday 11 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Natalie Angier, in re: owls. (1 of 2) ...

Saturday 10 August 2013

  Photo, above: in Yemen, Sanaa houses at dusk (artist's view) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 10 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Legitimate Target: A Criteria-Based Approach to Targeted Killing (Terrorism and Global Justice) by Amos Guiora (1 of 4) Photo, below: traditional houses in Sanaa,...

Friday 9 August 2013

Photo, above:  On forty-foot tall posters across Egypt: "Bye-bye, America!”  "وداعا وداعا وأمريكا!"   JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 9 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Michael Auslin, AEI, in re:In a few days, the U.S. State Department undoubtedly will reopen all of the 22 U.S. embassies and...

Thursday 8 August 2013

Photo, above: Embassy-Closing Terror Plot Uncovered on Al Qaeda Conference Call.   For the first time in history, a group of managers were able to sit down and prepare for a major project on a conference call. It's just that all the managers were al Qaeda managers, and the major project was a...

Wednesday 7 August 2013

Photo, above: Incidents show police bias towards pro-establishment groups. Law and order appear to have taken a serious bashing in Hong Kong as a blind eye is often turned to thuggish activities. [See: Hour 1, Block B: Hung Ho-fung, associate professor at Johns Hopkins, on how Hong Kong is...

Tuesday 6 August 2013

Photo, above: Curiosity rover a year later.  This is a self-portrait mosaic made from brand new images taken by the MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imager), the high-resolution camera located on the turret at the end of MSL’s robotic arm. The arm was moved for each of the 55 images in this mosaic, so the arm...

Monday 5 August 2013

Photo, above: Pittsburgh VA hospital.   See Hour 1, Block C,  Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review & Pirates fan, and Lara M Brown, political analyst and author, on Too Tired to Care about VA Scandal?  An unknown number of U.S. military veterans are dead within 30 days of contracting...

Sunday 4 August 2013

Photo, above: An image from a NASA animation showing 'tides' on Titan raised by Saturn's gravity, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The fact that Titan gets squeezed and stretched depending on its orbit around Saturn suggests the presence of an ocean beneath its surface, a recent study has...

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