Thursday 29 December 2022
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
1/4: To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision Hardcover – May 24, 2022 by Admiral James Stavridis USN (Author)
At the heart of Admiral James Stavridis’s training as a naval officer was the preparation to lead sailors in combat, to face the decisive moment in battle whenever it might arise. In To Risk it All, he offers up nine of the most useful and enthralling stories from the US Navy’s nearly 250-year history, and draws from them a set of insights that we can all put to use when confronted with fateful choices.
Conflict. Crisis. Risk. These words have a distinct meaning in a military context that we hope will never apply identically in our own lives. But at the same time, as Admiral Stavridis shows with great clarity, many lessons are universal.
To Risk it All is filled with thrilling and heroic exploits, but it is anything but a shallow exercise in myth burnishing. Every leader in this book has real flaws, as all humans do, and the stories of failure, or at least the decisions that have been defined as such, are as crucial as the stories of success. In the end, when this master class is concluded, we will be better armed for hard decisions both expected and not.
915-930
2/4: To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision Hardcover – May 24, 2022 by Admiral James Stavridis USN
930-945
3/4: To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision Hardcover – May 24, 2022 by Admiral James Stavridis USN
945-1000
4/4: To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision Hardcover – May 24, 2022 by Admiral James Stavridis USN
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
1/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter Hardcover – May 31, 2022 by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Universe-Hundred-Year-Search-Matter/dp/0674248996
In The Elephant in the Universe, Govert Schilling explores the fascinating history of the search for dark matter. Evidence for its existence comes from a wealth of astronomical observations. Theories and computer simulations of the evolution of the universe are also suggestive: they can be reconciled with astronomical measurements only if dark matter is a dominant component of nature. Physicists have devised huge, sensitive instruments to search for dark matter, which may be unlike anything else in the cosmos―some unknown elementary particle. Yet so far dark matter has escaped every experiment. Indeed, dark matter is so elusive that some scientists are beginning to suspect there might be something wrong with our theories about gravity or with the current paradigms of cosmology. Schilling interviews both believers and heretics and paints a colorful picture of the history and current status of dark matter research, with astronomers and physicists alike trying to make sense of theory and observation.
Taking a holistic view of dark matter as a problem, an opportunity, and an example of science in action, The Elephant in the Universe is a vivid tale of scientists puzzling their way toward the true nature of the universe
1015-1030
2/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter Hardcover – May 31, 2022 by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
1030-1045
3/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter Hardcover – May 31, 2022 by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
1045-1100
4/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter Hardcover – May 31, 2022 by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
5/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter Hardcover – May 31, 2022 by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Universe-Hundred-Year-Search-Matter/dp/0674248996
In The Elephant in the Universe, Govert Schilling explores the fascinating history of the search for dark matter. Evidence for its existence comes from a wealth of astronomical observations. Theories and computer simulations of the evolution of the universe are also suggestive: they can be reconciled with astronomical measurements only if dark matter is a dominant component of nature. Physicists have devised huge, sensitive instruments to search for dark matter, which may be unlike anything else in the cosmos―some unknown elementary particle. Yet so far dark matter has escaped every experiment. Indeed, dark matter is so elusive that some scientists are beginning to suspect there might be something wrong with our theories about gravity or with the current paradigms of cosmology. Schilling interviews both believers and heretics and paints a colorful picture of the history and current status of dark matter research, with astronomers and physicists alike trying to make sense of theory and observation.
1115-1130
6/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter Hardcover – May 31, 2022 by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
1130-1145
7/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter Hardcover – May 31, 2022 by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
1145-1200
8/8: The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter Hardcover – May 31, 2022 by Govert Schilling (Author), Avi Loeb (Foreword)
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
1/4: Seven Games: A Human History Hardcover – January 25, 2022 by Oliver Roeder (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Games-History-Oliver-Roeder/dp/1324003774
Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable.
Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones.
Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself.
Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games―and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human
1215-1230
2/4: Seven Games: A Human History Hardcover – January 25, 2022 by Oliver Roeder (Author)
1230-1245
3/4: Seven Games: A Human History Hardcover – January 25, 2022 by Oliver Roeder (Author)
1245-100 AM
4/4: Seven Games: A Human History Hardcover – January 25, 2022 by Oliver Roeder (Author)