Want to go into space? Why bother with rockets and space shuttles when you can simply take the lift…

AUDIO PREVIEW 

This week on Future Tense – the Space Elevator 

Here’s our list so far, but we’d love you to add to it…

electionblackout

electionleaflets

electionwire

mypolitican

2020 Women

Federal Election 2010 (Crikey)

Campaign pulse

Election 2010 Campaign Map

Buzzelection

OpenAustralia

Below The Line

Our Say

Student Voice

The Tally Room

Wotnews federal election

Policy Watch – Election 2010

And election-related hash tags for Twitter…

#ausvotes

#electionwire

#2010election

#mofo

#ozpolitics

#ausvotes

#aus2010

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD MORE

A quick follow up on a few things we’ve mentioned on the show recently.

As part of our recent program about ‘dark tourism’ we interviewed Scott Stephens, the Editor of the ABC’s new online religion and ethics portal. Since we spoke to Scott that portal has launched. You can find a range of opinion pieces, features and highlights from recent ABC programs.

In March we did an interview with Dan Hill, part of an international team of designers involved with a futuristic project called The Cloud. Our sister program The Night Air recently used some of that interview as part of a feature called ‘What the Flock?‘, which looked at group dynamics, crowd behaviour and herding.

That’s all the links for now!

An interesting approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions – just reduce the size of your average cow – Guardian article on the ‘mini cow’.

Recent Future Tense story on environmental impact of meat production (among other things).

It’s called ‘dark’ or ‘thanatourism’ and it’s one of the impressive growth areas of  the international holiday trade.

Sites of death and horror are being packaged-up and commercialised in order to meet the tourist demand - from Auchwitz to the S21-Prison used by the Khmer Rouge.

Future Tense report on why an increasing number of people are actively seeking out a thanatourism experience.

One of our guests is the ABC Online’s new Religion and Ethics Editor, Scott Stephens. Here’s a taste of what he has to say…

AUDIO PREVIEW – Scott Stephens

Nathan Cera examines the growth of podcasting and what it means for traditional radio. This piece was originally produced as an assignment in the postgraduate broadcasting course at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

Special feature from Nathan Cera

]]> http://blogs.radionational.net.au/futuretense/?feed=rss2&p=1135 0 http://blogs.radionational.net.au/futuretense/?p=1132 http://blogs.radionational.net.au/futuretense/?p=1132#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:18:34 +0000 RNFutureTense http://blogs.radionational.net.au/futuretense/?p=1132  

Due to extraordinary political developments in Canberra our program this morning (24/06/2010)  had to be postponed. The Canberra drama necessitated an extended version of RN Breakfast. Apologies. We will play the program featuring paleofuturist, Matt Novak, a discussion about the idea of the paperless office, and an interview with Assoc Prof Ashley Buckle, from the MyTARDIS program at Monash Uni, on Thursday 15th July.

G’day Future Tense team.

I’m here in SW China keeping up to date with the podcasts, while on long bus trips or during the fair amount of free time between teaching English lessons.

I particularly enjoyed the tinkering stuff. I see it here in the form of housing DIY, for example drilling holes in walls for extra pipes.

Tinkering runs in the family too, like my bro’s ‘Digg-o-matic 3000′, shopping trolley, lawn-mower and scrap made into a rotary trench digger for our cubby house!

But I’d love to hear a programme specifically on female tinkerers.

The most obvious example is sewing. I often get my mum to sew extra belt loops on trousers for example. but it doesn’t have to stick to the stereotypes.

Keep up the good work Mitch

So, over to you. Any suggestions for female focussed tinkering?

And here are our progams on Tinkering from last year and a link to the Future Tense tinkering blog…

Tinkering 1

Tinkering 2

Tinkering 3

Tinkering 4

Tinkering 5

Tinkering blog

In conjunction with Desta Itote’s report on online identity, we’re keen to hear from you – and see you – at least the picture/pictures you choose to represent yourself online. Send us the strangest online avatar or image that you’ve used.

And feel free to tell us why you’ve chosen it.

Here’s an image I’ve used on  Facebook in the past, but in a case of do as I say not as I do, I’m going to squib on the explanation…

So send us your photo or image and tell us why you use it.

Jessica Sciberras writes…

comment: Is a photo of myself standing on top of a toilet seat, awkwardly mopping up a shower leakage. My friend took this photo of my while we were holidaying in Europe, and I thought that it describes me better than words ever can: any form of domestic activity looks unnatural when I attempt it.

And on Twitter from Jacki Johnson (@jacki_johnson)…

comment: @RNFutureTense haven’t used any creative identities but did have funny little issue when followers from US thought I was the weather girl!

And from Facebook Joy Keefe writes…