Photo, above: Cappadocian luxe hotel, ancient troglodytic home.  see Hour 4, Blocks C & D, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz (photo by courtesy of and with thanks to whenonearth.net).  

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 1, Block A: Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs by David Grimm  (1 of 4)

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 1, Block B: Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs by David Grimm  (2 of 4)

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 1, Block C: Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs by David Grimm  (3 of 4)

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 1, Block D: Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs by David Grimm  (4 of 4)

Hour Two

Drawing, right: A space elevator is a proposed type of space transportation system. Its main component is a ribbon-like cable (also called a tether) anchored to the surface and extending into space. It is designed to permit vehicle transport along the cable from a planetary surface, such as the Earth's, directly into space or orbit, without the use of large rockets. An Earth-based space elevator would consist of a cable with one end attached to the surface near the equator and the other end in space beyond geostationary orbit (35,800 km altitude). The competing forces of gravity, which is stronger at the lower end, and the outward/upward centrifugal force, which is stronger at the upper end, would result in the cable being held up, under tension, and stationary over a single position on Earth. Once deployed, the tether would be ascended repeatedly by mechanical means to orbit, and descended to return to the surface from orbit. [Source: bisbos] See Hour 4, Blocks C & D, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz.

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 2, Block A: Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw  (1 of 4)

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 2, Block B: Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw  (2 of 4)

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 2, Block C: Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw  (3 of 4)

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 2, Block D: Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw  (4 of 4)

Hour Three

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 3, Block A: Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw (1 of 2)

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 3, Block B: Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You A Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw (2 of 2)

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 3, Block C: The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today by Rob Dunn  (1 of 2)

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 3, Block D: The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today by Rob Dunn  (2 of 2)

Hour Four

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 4, Block A: Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships by Dario Maestripieri (1 of 2)

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 4, Block B: Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships by Dario Maestripieri (2 of 2)

Photo: troglodytic home, luxe hotel in Cappacdocia, Turkey .  See Hour 4, Block C, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 4, Block C: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz (1 of 2)

Amazon:  In its 4.5-billion-year history, life on Earth has almost been erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? In this brilliantly speculative work of popular science, Annalee Newitz, editor of io9.com, explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Scatter, Adapt, and Remember explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow, from simulating tsunamis or studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities, to cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” or designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever our future holds.

Saturday 20 September    2014 / Hour 4, Block D: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz (2 of 2)

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Annalee Newitz writes about the intersection of science, technology and culture for publications including Wired, Popular Science, Technology Review, Slate, Washington Post, the Smithsonian Magazine, and more. Currently she is the editor-in-chief of the science and culture site io9.com, and previously worked as a contributing editor at Wired magazine and as a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

She was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and MIT, and has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.  Learn more at AnnaleeNewitz.com or follow her on Twitter @annaleen

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