Photo, above: Open-pit mining at Gyama, Medrogunkar, near Lhasa in Tibet. Copper, gold, molybdenum and zinc are mined at Gyama. Chinese use dangerous low technologies, contaminate vast subregions, and take all the money away - $570 million recently taken from a Tibetan gold mine - to Beijing (and...
Photo, above: The tiny Tuscan island of Montecristo, whose mysterious history is filled with saints, monks and pirates, is to be opened up to the public for the first time. For almost 40 years, since it became a nature reserve, only scientists and researchers have been allowed within three miles of...
Photo, above: future technology - a concrete watch (see second two segments of fourth hour, Darwin's Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology by John Long.JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW MONDAY 905PM EDT (805P Pacific): Wonder Girl: The Magnificent...
Above: Folk art depiction of Lady Triệu (225–248), a female warrior in Third-Century Vietnam who managed for a time successfully to resist the Chinese state of Eastern Wu during its occupation of Vietnam. She's also called Triệu Thị Trinh, although her actual given name is unknown. She is quoted...
Text, above: Fannie Mae gathers her skirts JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Saturday 905P Eastern Time: The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History by Kirsten Grind; 1 of 4 Saturday 920P Eastern Time: The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest...
Above: Great Seal of the Cherokee NationJOHN BATCHELOR SHOWFriday 905P Eastern Time: . A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke by James P. P. Horn; 1 of 2Friday 920P Eastern Time: . A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of...
First Hour. Thursday 905P Eastern Time: The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (The Terry Lectures Series) by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack (Jun 5, 2012) Thursday 920P Eastern Time: The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared...
Photo, above: Aerial view of Mount Surabuchi on the Island of Iwo Jima, Japan. Camera Operator: PHAN LEE MCCASKILL, USN. Date Shot: 28 Sep 2001JOHN BATCHELOR SHOWWednesday 905P Eastern Time: PACIFIC WAR UNCENSORED, THE: A War Correspondent's Unvarnished Account of the Fight Against Japan by...
Photo, above: A vision of a Grand Design network JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Tuesday 905P Eastern Time: The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow; 1 of 4 Tuesday 920P Eastern Time: The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow; 2 of 4 Hawking, the renowned Cambridge mathematician...
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOWMonday 905P Eastern Time (605P Pacific Time): . Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines by John Gordon; 1 of 4Monday 920P Eastern Time (620P Pacific Time): . Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense...