Fw: Welcome to your future! News from BBC Tomorrow's World

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

Just received this - might be of interest to some.

M.

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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:30 PM
Subject: Welcome to your future! News from BBC Tomorrow's World


> - Introducing the BBC Tomorrow's World 'airline'
>
> Aircraft designers have to make sure passengers can evacuate a full
plane
using just half the exits in under 90 seconds. As planes (and people) get
larger, this legal requirement becomes harder to satisfy.
>
> On Wednesday August 8th on BBC ONE, Tomorrow's World will be live at
the
world's first double-decker airline evacuation simulator, at Cranfield
University in Bedfordshire.
>
> But if you want to see how you'd react in a smoke-filled cabin, try
our
online evacuation competition. There are prizes for people who make a
particularly quick getaway.
>
> So take a click at http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/tw
for a dose of air
travel trivia, a leader board of the fastest exits in our competition and
how you can take part in an evacuation test for real.
>
> We hope you enjoy a safe flight.
>
> - Next week: Ultimate Endurance
>
> Can sports psychology really make you winner? Take two teams of
volunteers
and send one to the British Olympic training centre in London. Then enter
both in a survival challenge on and in Scotland's mountains and rivers. On
August 15th on BBC ONE, Tomorrow's World sets out to discover if success is
down to hard graft or deep thought.
>
> - Summer Holidays
>
> Tomorrow's World is taking a break from mid-August until October. But
the
website will keep you up to speed with technology and science developments.
Plus we'll take a look back at what's happened to stories from the past and
track down the best of the BBC's TV, radio and online content to make sure
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/tw
is the place to come for science news.
>
> - New Series
>
> When Tomorrow's World comes back in the autumn, we'll have a brand new
format. Live from a different location each week, the show will put
science - and scientists - on the spot. In Best Inventions, you the
audience
gets to decide which of three inventors has the best idea. While we'll put
human behaviour under pressure and under the microscope in Lab Rats.
>
> - Website News
>
> If you've not visited the TW website for a while, you'll notice some
changes.
>
> People email us asking why don't we list all our stories. The answer
is
there are now far too many. The website has stories featured on the TV show
right back to 1997, all accessible by a search system which uses either
keywords or dates to track down stories.
>
> Plus we've introduced support for viewers of the Signed Edition which
is
shown on BBC ONE a week after the main programme first airs. To access the
page, go to the TW homepage (http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/tw)
and click
Signed Edition on the left-hand side.
> (This is also a quick way to reach stories from last week's main
show.)
>
> - Unsubscribing
>
> If you would rather not receive newsletters from Tomorrow's World in
future, here's how to remove yourself from the TW mailing list:
> . send an email to "majordomo@xxxxxxx"
> . the subject field must be blank
> . as the body of the text, use the phrase "unsubscribe tw"
followed by a
space and then the address which received this email.