Schedules
Friday 7 March 2014
Photo, above: The Passenger Pigeon or Wild Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) is an extinct North American bird. The species lived in enormous migratory flocks until the early 20th century, when hunting and habitat destruction led to its demise. One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as...
Thursday 6 March 2014
Photo, above: Danny Lewin with Akamai co-founder Tom Leighton in 1999. Just before 8 AM. on Sept. 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 took off from Boston’s Logan Airport. Bound nonstop for Los Angeles, the flight was just one of more than 40,000 scheduled to crisscross the country that day. The...
Wednesday 5 March 2014
Above: The Vostochny Cosmodrome (Russian: Космодром Восточный Kosmodrom Vostochny "Eastern Spaceport") is a planned Russian spaceport, to be located at 51 degrees north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East and Outer Manchuria. It is intended to reduce Russia's dependency on the Baikonur...
Tuesday 4 March 2014
Map, above: Mexican drug cartels operating in the United States. The U.S. and Mexican Narcos Are Smoking the Peace Pipe -- or so purports a cache of leaked emails from the private U.S. security firm Stratfor. The correspondences cite a Mexican diplomat who claims that not only is the U.S....
Monday 3 March 2014
Photo, above: Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C), Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) and head of the Russian army's main department of combat preparation Ivan Buvaltsev watch military exercises at the Kirillovsky firing ground in the Leningrad region, March 3, 2014. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host...
Sunday 2 March 2014
Photo, above: Sites where typical Neanderthal fossils have been found JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 2 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Andrew Lawler, in re: Mesopotamian cities Sunday 2 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Sid Perkins, Science magazine, in re: geoengineering. Sunday 2 March 2014 /...
Saturday 1 March 2014
Photo, above: Papua New Guinea, World War II cemetery at Bomana, Port Moresby (Photo: B. Ludin, courtesy of Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority) JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 1 March 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: You Are Not Forgotten: The Story of a Lost World War II Pilot and a...
Friday 28 February 2014
Photo, above: Barricades, rue Soufflot, Paris, 1789, by Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 1789 – 17 January 1863) a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects. He was born in the Paris Louvre while his parents were staying there during the French Revolution. JOHN BATCHELOR...