Photo, above: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 2 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson (Kindle Edition - Oct 18, 2011) - Frances Wilson was educated at Oxford University and lectured on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature for...
Photo, above: Ford Model T Runabout (photo courtesy of Ford) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 1 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s--The Era that Created Modern Sports by Kevin Cook (1 of 2) Sunday 1 September 2013 / Hour 1, Block B:...
Photo, above: NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to the Sun. A team of researchers, including Carnegie's Alan Boss, has discovered what could be a large, rocky planet with a surface temperature of about 22 degrees Celsius (72...
Photo, above: September 4, 1804 - Bomb ketch USS Intrepid, fitted out as a fireship to destroy a flotilla of Barbary corsairs, blew up in Tripoli harbor before reaching her target. Ten men, all volunteers and including her commander Lieutenant Richard Somers, were lost. Commodore Edward Preble...
Photo, above: In Uganda, a Karamojong man enters the shaft of an artisanal mine in Rupa, close to the town of Moroto. Gold mining became an alternative source of income for some members of the Karamojong community after their traditional way of life–cattle rustling–started to vanish. Image by Marc...
Photo, above: The Hindu shows a signpost at the India-China border in Bumla, Arunachal Pradesh. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, and Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday 28 August 2013 Hour 1, Block A: John Lee, Michael Hintze Fellow for Energy...
Photo, above: The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70), equipped with the Aegis integrated weapons system, launches a RIM-161 Standard Missile (SM) 3 Block IA during exercise Stellar Avenger while under way in the Pacific Ocean July 30, 2009. The missile successfully...
Photo, above: What Does Sarin Do to People? The "nerve agent" does not directly kill. Rather, within seconds, it turns our own nervous systems against us. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 26 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: Last June, an al Qaeda (...
Photo, above: 2011 Minot ND Flood, Source: FEMA JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 25 August 2013/ Hour 1, Block A: Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon Sunday 25 August 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and...
Photo, above: Muharram is a month of remembrance that's often considered synonymous with the event of Ashura. Ashura, which literally means the "Tenth" in Arabic, refers to the tenth day of Muharram, and is known for the martyrdom of Hussein ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammad. See: Hour 3, Block...