Photo, above: Life on Europa? This moon of Jupiter might have life in a subsurface ocean. Water from a subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon, Europa, could reach the surface through seeps or erupt from hot water vents. This water would reveal the chemistry of the subsurface ocean and may contain...
Photo, above: Geysers of vapor—a couple of hundred kilometers tall and possibly erupting at supersonic speeds—occasionally spew from the south polar regions of Europa, one of Jupiter’s ice-covered moons, a new study suggests. See: Hour 3, Block D, Sid Perkins. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday ...
Photo, above: Hôtel de Crillon, one of three restaurants: ". . . le restaurant Les Ambassadeurs représente le raffinement et le goût à la française. Le chef de cuisines allie tradition et modernité." Hotel closed for renovation till 2015. See Hour 2, Block A: French Kids Eat Everything: How Our...
Photo, above: Combat, 24 August 1944: "French troops enter the liberated capital" "after four years of hope and struggle." "DeGaulle will be in Paris today [In Rennes,] his car was covered with flowers by the population" "A day of battles and a night of enthusiasm in free Paris." "Lyon and...
Photo, above: The pod-rooms at Endémico, one of the new hotels in the wine region of Valle de Guadalupe, are perched above the valley. See Hour 4, Block D, Damian Cave, NYT, on A Rustic Paradise, Open for Development The Guadalupe Valley is Mexico’s Tuscany. We're south of the border and in from...
Photo, above: Penang, Nineteenth Century postcard. See Hour 1, Block C, Sadanand Dhume, AEI. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts; Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board. Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents. Hour One Thursday 12 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: David M Drucker,...
Photo, above: Trouble and flight in the Central African Republic. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com. Dr. David M. Livingston, The Space Show. Hour One Wednesday 11 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Scott Harold, Associate Political Scientist at RAND Corporation, in re:...
Photo, above: Mary Barra, new GM president. Bravissima! JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Tuesday 10 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: LouAnn Hammond, DrivingtheNation.com, in re: Mary Barra Named GM CEO, Automaker's First Female Chief At long last, Detroit is getting some girl power: automaker...
Photo: Onboard USS Enterprise during the Battle of Midway, June, 1942. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 2 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, and Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, in re: AQAP says assault on Yemen's Defense Ministry targeted...
Photo, above: Philippines, 1944 JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 8 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 by Stanley Weintraub (1 of 4) Sunday 8 December 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941 by Stanley...