Photo, above: Located slightly more than four lights-years away, the low-mass red dwarf Proxima Centauri is the nearest star other than our own Sun to Earth. Despite its proximity, it is still too dim to be viewed with the unaided eye. It is probably bound gravitationally to the Alpha Centauri...
Photo, above: St Andrew's, Kiev. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio Hour One Tuesday 11 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, in re: 28 Republicans joined with Democrats to pass a clean budget bill (couldn't get 218 any other way...
Photo, above: Narberth, Pa, 13th CD Pennsylavania: see Salena Zito, PTR at 945 PM ET. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter Hour One Monday 10 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Aaron Task, Yahoo Finance & The Daily Ticker, in re: Two months in a row, weak jobs numbers. The market...
Photo, above: Dark day . . . smoke billows after a pipeline explosion in Nigeria, adding to the soot endemic in developing countries, causing respiratory illness and global warming. (Photo: Reuters) Soot is impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It is...
Photo, above: Cross-section of hydrofracking activity JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 8 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage) by Tim Wu (1 of 2) Saturday 8 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block B: The Master Switch: The Rise and...
Painting, above: John Jay Homestead State Historic Site, Katonah, New York, home of John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States. See Hour Four, The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817 by Myron Magnet JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Friday 7 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A:...
Photo, above: Flag of Morocco, one of many countries whose geopolitical and military situations are explored on a new site, MilitaryEdge[dot]org The centerpiece of the site is an interactive map of the Middle East and North Africa. With this map, users can easily access the known weaponry of any...
Photo, above: Helmstetter’s Curve Farm, Maryland. See Hour 3, Block A, Alan Bjerga of Bloomberg News on the farm bill. "The Helmstetter barn burned down on July 9th [2009]. John lost cattle and his friend Teddy, the border collie featured in the photo. To help John Helmstetter, go to the John...
Photo, above: Ayu Oke, new head of Nigerian Intelligence. JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio. Hour One Tuesday 4 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Larry Kudlow, in re: repricing risk; markets got frothy at end of year as growth...
Painting, above: Chinese Year of the Horse [credit: paintings chinese] JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-host: Thaddeus McCotter Hour One Monday 3 February 2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Bill Roggio, Long War Journal and FDD, and Thomas Joscelyn, Long War Journal senior editor, in re: "The Obama Administration...