CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915         
World Press Freedom Day; & What is to be done?  Avantika Chilkoti @TheEconomist
https://econ.st/3kH36cb 
 

915-930         
#SpaceX: Musk bets the house repeatedly. John Tamny @johntamny , Real Clear Markets; and director, Center for Economic Freedom; and Toreador Research & Trading; Forbes; author, The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job. 
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-elon-musk-made-us-all-richer-virtual-banking-peter-thiel-paypal-wealth-billionaire-millionaire-investments-cash-online-11651696244
 

930-945         
#SmallBusinessAmerica: Prepping recession by hiring and investing. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-04/small-businesses-see-conditions-fading-in-u-s-as-prices-soar
 

945-1000         
#SmallBusinessAmerica: Mother's Day marketing in Ardmore, PA. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://genemarks.medium.com/how-some-philly-small-businesses-plan-to-use-mothers-day-to-boost-post-pandemic-sales-60886476091e
 

SECOND HOUR

10-1015         
#Mexico: AMLO aims for supremacy. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, @MaryAnastasiaOG      Wall Street Journal editorial board and “The Americas” columnist
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexico-criminalizes-investment-energy-market-opening-amlo-lopez-obrador-biden-morena-supreme-court-11651432097
 
 
1015-1030         
#Australia: Omicron variants arrive with more rain. Scott Mayman  @CBSNews   Brisbane
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/three-new-covid-omicron-subvariant-australia-ba-2-12-1-ba4-ba5-detected
 
 
1030-1045        
#SpaceX: Fish and Wildlife Service speaks of the plover. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/fish-wildlife-documents-now-reveal-its-objections-to-spacex-boca-chica-facility/
 

1045-1100         
#Mars: Quakes. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/insight-scientists-publish-paper-describing-last-years-big-martian-quakes/

 
 

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115         
1/4: Seven Games: A Human History, by Oliver Roeder.  Hardcover – January 25, 2022
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 pleasing.
Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as the 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.

 
1115-1130         
2/4: Seven Games: A Human History, by Oliver Roeder.  Hardcover – January 25, 2022
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 pleasing.
Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as the 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
 

1130-1145          
3/4: Seven Games: A Human History, by Oliver Roeder.  Hardcover – January 25, 2022
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 pleasing.
Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as the 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.
 

1145-1200          
4/4: Seven Games: A Human History, by Oliver Roeder.  Hardcover – January 25, 2022
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 pleasing.
Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as the 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.
 
 

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215         
#PacificWatch: Return of the California Condor. @JCBliss
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-03/california-condors-fly-the-coop-soar-over-redwoods-once-again
 
 
1215-1230         
#Markets:  Bear roaring. Jim McTague, @McTagueJ, former Washington Editor, @Barrons Washington
https://www.wsj.com/articles/april-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-2022-11651789328?mod=hp_lead_pos1
 
 
1230-1245:        
#France: Macron leads Europe. Stanley Pignal, @spignal. Charlemagne columnist and Brussels bureau chief for  @TheEconomist.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/04/30/emmanuel-macron-is-now-europes-standard-bearer
 

1245-100 AM          
#EU: The price of Russian energy is $173m per day. Stanley Pignal, @spignal. Charlemagne columnist and Brussels bureau chief for  @TheEconomist.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-eu-struggles-to-find-unity-on-russian-oil-embargo/ar-AAX00El