Photo, above: The globe of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, is seen illuminated outside Geneva, Switzerland. See: Hour 4, Block D, Danny Hakim, NYT, in re: Faster Than the Speed of Light? JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Monday 29 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Thomas Joscelyn,...
Photo, above: Rafik and Lina Hariri. See: Hour 1, Block A, Michele Dunne, vice president and director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council; the distinguished and much-beloved Hariri was assassinated on 14 February 2005, when explosives equivalent to around 1800 kg...
Photo, above: University of California, Berkeley Free Speech Movement – 1964-1965. See: Hour 3, Block A, The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America by James T. Patterson In the 1964–1965 academic year, students at the University of California, Berkeley spent months protesting against the...
Photo, above: Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi. See: Hour 3, Block A, Michael Ledeen, FDD. Some followers of the dissident Iranian cleric Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi say his health has further deteriorated in prison. Boroujerdi, who supports the separation of religion from the...
Photo, above: Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, who's been imprisoned in Evin Prison since 2006, has spoken in favor of tolerance; of separation of religion and state; of fraternity with Jews, "God's children," and against the regime, says it’s using religion as bullies as did bin Laden. (...
Photo, above: View from Mars Orbiter Showing Curiosity Rover at 'Shaler' JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Co-hosts: Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, and Dr David Livingston, The Space Show Hour One Wednesday 24 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Anne Stevenson-Yang, co-founder of J Capital Research based in Beijing, in re...
Picture, above: Floating Cities (8 Ways Magnetic Levitation Could Shape the Future - How Maglev Technology Works) See: Hour 2, Block B, Charles Pellegrino, author and explorer, in re: maglev and hyperloop. Our planet can be a crowded, polluted, crazy place. But a new design concept proposes that...
Photo, above: "Arab intellectuals facing the challenge of change" - Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 60s. See: Hour 3, Block C, Eric Trager, Washington Institute and Wall Street Journal...
Photo, above: Sarah Bernhardt as Theodora JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Sunday 21 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Heaven's Bride: The Unprintable Life of Ida C. Craddock, American Mystic, Scholar, Sexologist, Martyr, and Madwoman... by Leigh Eric Schmidt (1 of 2) Ida C. Craddock was a 19th-...
Photo, above: The famous typewriter of Alger Hiss. See: Hour 4, Block A, Ron Radosh, Hoover, on the Hiss case and Whittaker Chambers JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW Hour One Saturday 20 July 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 by George J Veith (1 of 4) Saturday 20 July...