Photo, above: The Cushing Oil Field, also known as the Cushing-Drumright Oil Field, is an oil field in northeastern Oklahoma, part of the Mid-Continent oil province. The 10-mile (16 km) by 3-mile (4.8 km) field includes southeastern Payne County, northwestern Creek County, and northeastern Lincoln...
Drawing, above: Hour 4, Blocks A & B: Law of the Desert Born (Graphic Novel), by Louis L'Amour and Beau L'Amour JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 16 November 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Dallas 1963, by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis (1 of 4) Sunday 16 November 2014 / Hour 1, Block B:...
Photo, above: Tbilisi, Georgia. See Hour 3, Operation Shakespeare: The True Story of an Elite International Sting, by John Shiffman JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 15 November 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana, by Tony Dokoupil (1...
Photo, above: Welcome to the Polish Base on the New Cold War's Front Lines: Lask air force base in Poland, where U.S. and Polish pilots track Russia's activities. See Hour 1, Block C, Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 14 November 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Liz...
Photo, above: Log jam at Big Ripple, North Fork of Clearwater River, Idaho. See Hour 1, Blocks C & D, Stephen Yates, Idaho Republican Party Chairman, & DC Advisory. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board & host of OpinionJournal.com &...
Photo, above: The State Department has spent a week shepherding a dozen East Asian reporters, "emerging media professionals," around the US, culminating in a visit to a Cumulus New York radio program, where they were welcomed by the John Batchelor Show on Thursday November 12. A dozen members of...
Photo, above: World War I, the bloodiest war in history till then as well as one of the most unnecessary, ended on Armistice Day on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 11 November 1918. Three years earlier, as troops suffered in frozen, wet, filthy trenches facing each...
Photo, above: A new image from ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, reveals extraordinarily fine detail that has never been seen before in the planet-forming disc around a young star. ALMA’s new high-resolution capabilities were achieved by spacing the antennas up to 15...
Photo, above: JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 9 November 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Safe Is Not an Option, by Rand E. Simberg and William Simon (1 of 4) (description at the end of this schedule) Sunday 9 November 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Safe Is Not an Option, by Rand E. Simberg and William...
Photo, above: Micro air vehicle (can be mosquito-size) with attached surveillance camera. "MAVs should be thought of as aerial robots, as six-degree-of-freedom machines whose mobility can deploy a useful micro payload to a remote or otherwise hazardous location where it may perform any of a variety...