Rick Tumlinson is a US businessman whose ambition is to mine asteroids and to then use the material he extracts to power spacecraft and satellites. He talks of developing galactic "gas stations".
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Off earth mining and galactic gas stations - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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BBC Radio 4 - White Face, Dark Heart (2/2)
Stewart Lee explores what lies beneath the friendly red-nosed image of the clown.
He discovers that British clowns were once not just for the children and talks to the clowns that want to change the world - even if it means confronting the police.
He meets the Rebel Clown Army, whose antics at political demonstrations cause amusement and bafflement in equal measure.
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BBC Radio 4 - White Face, Dark Heart (1/2)
Stewart Lee explores what lies beneath the friendly red-nosed image of the clown.
He meets the LA clown who assaults and ridicules his audience and fulfills a ten-year desire to witness the rituals of New Mexico’s sacred clowns.
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A History of the World in Maps - Late Night Live - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Throughout history, maps have always been as much about their creators and their worldviews as about reproducing an accurate replica of the world. Early maps were also about the unknown and how to display the borders of the known world. Monsters in illustration were often used to represent what lay beyond the edge of the world, and cartographers competed to create the best and scariest monsters on their creations.
Professor and BBC documentary presenter Jeremy Brotton has produced a study of the cultural values embodied in maps and collected them in a book called A History of the World in Twelve Maps.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/a-history-of-the-world-in-maps/4491276
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Diversity Roundtable - Let’s Make Mistakes - Mule Radio Syndicate
Tom Coates and Anna Rascouët-Paz join Mike and Leah to discuss diversity in the tech industry. It’s a fucking good episode, people!
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The future of radio - Media Report - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
With multiple new ways of listening to sound, whether via your phone, an iPod or your laptop, this week we ask whether radio has a future. Its demise has been foretold many times in recent decades and yet radio has managed to renew itself. But is it facing its biggest challenge yet?
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/mediareport/21-december-2012/4433714
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How NOT to be a wine wanker
If you’ve ever felt overawed, or even irritated, by someone’s endless knowledge of wine then this night of mythbusting will help get your own back.
There’s no mistaking someone who loves to show off their wine knowledge. The vintage, the terroir, the way the winemaker parts their hair.
These ‘wine wankers’ will snuffle and snort and pontificate their way through social occasions and explain at cellar doors how the wine could have been made differently.
Miss Pearls knows only too well. She used to sell wine at cellar doors and come face to face with these ‘experts’.
Bar manager Miss Pearls and sommelier Dan Sims turn those pretensions on their head with a hugely successful dissertation and imbibing session called ‘How Not to Drink Wine Like a Wanker’ which has enjoyed a sold-out season on top of a building during the 20th Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
Participants, most of them women, learn how to taste and appreciate wine without boring others and get the chance to sample a range of reds, whites and champagne.
It all ends with Miss Pearls taking to a bottle of champers with a bayonet, in a glorious moment of French excess called sabrage!
On the way Dan and Miss Pearls debunk some old expectations of the vino, and explain there’s no stupid question when asking about what you’d like to drink.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rnfirstbite/wine-wankers/3877438
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Tom Armitage on CBC Radio
"This afternoon, I interviewed Tom Armitage. He’s a software designer who recently came to our attention because of a talk he gave recently, called "If Gamers Ran the World." In it, he puts forth the idea that in another 10 years, leaders who are the same age as Barack Obama or British Conservative Party leader David Cameron are now, will be children of the 1970s, and as such, more than likely the first leaders who grew up with video games as a core part of their way of interact with the world around them. What would that mean for how they would behave as leaders? A shorter version of this interview airs on the Jan 7th and 10th episode of Spark" — http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2009/01/full_interview_tom_armitage.html
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BBC Podcasts - Shaun Keaveny - 21 Nov 12 John Shuttleworth & Brian Cox
Brian Cox chats about lonely planets, comedian John Shuttleworth sings us a song, we check some Bill Haley facts and, unbelievably, Leonardo Di Vinci comes into the studio.
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BBC - Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Danny Baker
Kirsty Young’s castaway is the broadcaster and writer Danny Baker.
He is a Sony Gold award winning broadcaster with one of the most recognisable voices on our airwaves and his numerous radio and TV shows have brought him legions of fans. As a writer, he has put words in the mouths of Jeremy Clarkson, Ricky Gervais, Chris Evans and even the legendary George Burns.
Despite the successes, he says he’s never plotted his next career move: "No plan - certainly no plan - you’ve only got to look at the incredible way this is all botched together and yet I don’t feel that’s somehow lucky when you look around at some of the half-wits and boss-eyed bozos who people this business - and they’re running departments. All of this is an ant-hill that somebody’s kicked over, and I happen to be one of the more bumptious ants."
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