Tomorrow, Today
By Tomorrow Today
Join Nash Flynn and Andy Ciccone talk as we learn from experts about the things coming tomorrow, but today.
Tomorrow, TodayMar 13, 2023
Season 1 Recap
We wrap up our first season and discuss favorite moments, future goals of the show, whether or not we should embrace our alien overlords, and if beaches made of cremated remains are the best way to build a beach body.
We'll be back in July; check out our other podcasts Death & Friends, The Poor Proles Almanac, and the Gastropocene in the meantime!
Restoration Cemeteries; Rediscovering our Communities with Dr. Scott Cave
Tune into this episode of Tomorrow, Today, where we discuss the role of cemeteries in our community identity and our fight against invasive species. Why are cemeteries so important in understanding our local ecology, and why should we learn to reclaim our local cemetery?
Check out Citizens Cemetery on Instagram at @CtznsCemetery
The future of Porn & Onlyfans
We've all snuck a look at porn as a young adult, and no one's browser is innocent; porn is as human as breathing and drinking water. It's existed in a number of forms and across time. Today, however, porn exists in increasing access and with new professionalism. We're joined by Vibe Ryder to discuss sex work, the future of sex work in porn, and the new challenges porn in the digital streaming era faces, even with the growth of platforms such as Onlyfans.
Check out Vibe's work on Instagram: @Vibe.Ryder
Check out her website: http://viberyder.com/
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The Domestic Revolution with Ruth Goodman
In this episode, we're joined by none other than Ruth Goodman, best known for her work on the Farms series with BBC (Wartime Farms, Tutor Farms, Victorian Farms) as well as the BBC Victorian Pharmacy miniseries. She's also the author of a number of books on Victorian era women and is a free lance historian working with museums, theatre, television and educational establishments.
In this episode, we talk about how our day to day routines have a huge cumulative effect on the environment, our shopping habits can sway the world's patterns of trade, and how we organize and run our family life sets the political tone of nations. How have we seen this in domestic work in history, what have we learned from looking at history, and how has covid changed our relationship with domestic work and how we identify in relation to how we exist?
Re-Writing Palaeontology and some Thoughts to Chew on with Dr. Dan Field
n this episode, we discuss the evolution of birds, how our understanding of ancient history is still evolving, and which was the baddest ancient bird of them all.
Dr. Dan Field is a vertebrate palaeontologist interested in the evolutionary history of birds and other amniotes. Our group's research explores the vertebrate fossil record and organismal biology in a phylogenetic framework to explore how and when extant vertebrate diversity has arisen. His work at the Field Lab aims to decipher the origins of modern avian biodiversity using fossil, anatomical, and molecular data, although we have deep interests in evolutionary questions across the vertebrate tree of life. In 2020 we revealed the discovery of the "Wonderchicken", Asteriornis, the oldest-known modern bird fossil and an early relative of the group that gave rise to living chickens and ducks. Major themes of our research include clarifying how birds survived and diversified following the mass extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, studying the evolutionary histories of major bird groups, and understanding the evolutionary origins of distinctive biological features such as the modern bird skull.
You can learn more about their research at: https://www.fieldpalaeo.com/
on Instagram & Twitter: @FieldPalaeo
Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Love & Humanity with Dr. Julie Carpenter
In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Julie Carpenter to discuss artificial intelligence, the future of robots, and what these technologies mean for humans. How do we understand our identity as technology continues to advance, and how far away are we from the dystopic future painted in futuristic movies?
Dr. Julie Carpenter is a world-leading expert on robot-human relationships. She made headlines in 2013 when she released her groundbreaking new study on the emotional ties between military personnel and military robots. As a result of the study, which revealed that soldiers often name and even fall in love with their robots, and hold funerals for robots that have been destroyed, the public came face-to-face with a reality that had previously only been considered in the realm of science fiction. As autonomous systems proliferate in both the military and civilian spheres, Carpenter’s research will become extremely important; it will help us understand not only how we will have feelings for robots, but also the ethical, social and practical consequences of developing relationships with machines. Carpenter has inaugurated a complex and perhaps uncomfortable discussion about an issue which, bizarre as it may seem to us now, will eventually touch everyone who interacts with autonomous machines.
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You can find Dr. Julie Carpenter on Twitter at @JGCarpenter
Influencers, Organizing, and Performative Radicalism with Charles McBryde
In this episode, we're joined by social media personality Charles McBryde as we unpack the radically accelerating world of social media activism and its co-optation by both political fringe politics and by the capitalist apparatus. We've watched as social media evolved from traditional marketing to absurdism to the anthropomorphizing of brands on social media, including fake feuds and shit-posting. How much more can brands mimick people, and what happens when it is no longer an effective marketing method? These questions are imperative to begin thinking about as we try to find ways to engage and use social media for meaningful work, and how we can further separate branding for just causes in platforms designed to sell you more products.
Ultimately, if we understand how the system works as platforms rise and fall, what can we do to start being proactive in this cycling process to leverage the system for a more egalitarian world?
Check out Charles on Instagram and TikTok at: @CharlesMcbryde
Support his work getting emergency medical supplies to citizens in Ukraine at: https://missionkharkiv.com/
Self-Managed Abortion & Autonomy in Medicine with Dr. Leslie Hoggart
In this episode of Tomorrow, Today, we discuss self-managed abortions, medical biases in training, and the changes that are being demanded by medical students around abortion training and abortion care. How does the medical infrastructure in industrialized countries continue to fail people in need of abortion, and where does self-managed abortion fit into the conversation?
Dr. Leslie Hoggart is Associate Head of School (research excellence) in the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care at the Open University as part of Oxford University. She specialises in qualitative research, and spent many years working in the qualitative research group at the Policy Studies Institute. Her research interests are focused on reproductive health, abortion policy and politics, teenage pregnancy and sexual health.
Authority, Academia, & the Invention of History with Peter Michael Bauer
In this episode we're joined by Peter Michael Bauer of Rewild Portland to discuss the authority of academia and the development of narratives. Many recognize the shortfalls and the politics academia injects into how research is done and how outcomes are presented, but how bad is it, really? How can we present an alternative to this model, and is there any validity in the authoirty that comes with the academic authority assigned through degree-granting institutions?
Follow Peter on Instagram @PeterMichaelBauer & you can find Rewild Portland @RewildPortland
Death & Tiktok with Nurse Penny
The strained relationship that humans have cultivated with death over the previous 2 centuries became painfully evident as Covid took hold these past few years. As folks were unable to sit beside their loved ones as they died, death anxiety continued to accelerate and an entire generation has begun to reassess its relationship with death. Coming to terms with death as it is, not as what we want it to be, is a complex personal relationship that demands vulnerability and honesty. In this illuminating conversation, we're joined by Tiktok celebrity Nurse Penny, a hospice nurse, to discuss the realities of the process of dying, what people should be aware of, and what we need to do to come to terms with the fact that we will die, and so will the ones we love.
To hear more of Nurse Penny's thoughts, find her on TikTok & Instagram @hospiceNursePenny
Endangered Maize & the Future of Food with Helen Anne Curry
The role of corn in our diet cannot be overstated, whether it's through animal feed for meat production, ethanol to transport our food, high fructose corn syrup, corn flour, or any of the other ways it has been introduced. Corn is a staple for good reason; it stores well, grows incredibly efficiently, and we've gotten really, really good at growing it. Despite this, there's an underbelly to this industry that often gets overlooked in the conversation about what the future of our food looks like. How did we get here, and how does the modern corn we eat today related to the crops indigenous people across the Americas have been harvesting and breeding for thousands of years?
In this episode, we're joined by Helen Anne Curry, author of "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture & the Crisis of Extinction" and Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. We chat about this complex relationship between modern corn and its relatives, often called landrace or unimproved corn varieties. But are these actually unimproved varieties? Researchers became aware that the corn we grow today had a very narrow genetic pool, and it was imperative to make sure the diversity of corn that existed across the continents was protected. Like most things, it was more complex than that. How did the cold war, multinational corporations, and the green revolution impact the evolution of corn? Tune in to find out!
Historian Helen Anne Curry on her book "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" from University of California Press.
www.ucpress.edu/book/978052030769…/endangered-maize
Find Helen Anne Curry on Twitter at @HACurry
QBism & the Truth of Probability with Dr. Chris Fuchs
In this episode, the Tomorrow, Today team sits down with Dr. Chris Fuchs, founder of QBism, to discuss the intersections of philosophy and science. What are the limits of our ability to understand physics, and is objectivity even real? If it's not real, what are the implications and how does it impact our interactions with the world around us?
To read more work from Dr. Chris Fuchs and other physicists, visit: https://arxiv.org/
To support this project and to get early access to each episode, visit https://www.patreon.com/poorprolesalmanac
Grief in a New World; Covid, Death, & Beyond with Marisa Renee Lee
In this episode, the team at Tomorrow, Today is joined by Marisa Renee Lee, author of "Grief is Love", to discuss the impacts of Covid-19 & death under quarantine will have on the future of how we relate with the process of death.
In Grief is Love, Marisa reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one—healing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief. It is about learning to love the one you lost with the same depth, passion, joy, and commitment you did when they were alive, perhaps even more. She guides you through the pain of grief—whether you’ve lost the person recently or long ago—and shows you what it looks like to honor your loss on your unique terms, and debunks the idea of a grief stages or timelines. Grief is Love is about making space for the transformation that a significant loss requires.
Marisa's background:
In 2010, Marisa joined the Obama Administration first as an appointee at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and later joined the White House Domestic Policy Council and the White House Office of Public Engagement where she ultimately served as President Obama’s Deputy Director of Private Sector Engagement. During her time in the administration Marisa focused on a variety of issues including entrepreneurship and access to capital in underserved communities, implementation of the Small Business Jobs Act and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and developed a variety of public-private partnerships with the business community on behalf of President Obama.
You can find her book at marisareneelee.com and her social medias @MarisaReneeLee
Community, Online Communities & Social Media with Dr. Amy Bruckman
In this episode, we discuss the concept of community-- what is community, how do we define it, how do online communities fit into this space, and what does the future hold for the idea of community?
The question of community also offers some interesting insights into the idea of citizen science and decentralized sources of knowledge, such as wikipedia. What are the larger implications of this model for content sourcing, and how does it compare to individual specialists?
Dr. Amy S. Bruckman is Regents' Professor and Senior Associate Chair in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she studies online communities. Bruckman received her Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab in 1997. She is a Fellow of The ACM and a member of the SIGCHI Academy. She founded her first online community in 1993, and has been teaching the class 'Design of Online Communities' at Georgia Tech since 1998.
Her Book, "Should you Believe Wikipedia? Online Communities & the Construction of Knowledge" can be found anywhere you buy books, and she can be found moderating R/Science & on Twitter at @ASBruckman.
Superbugs, Climate Change, & Capitalism with Dr. Ayesha Khan
We chat with infectious disease specialist Dr. Ayesha Khan about superbugs, drug resistance, climate change, and how all of these things are exacerbated by one common denominator-- our economic model of growth. How does climate change reinforce the speed at which drug resistance is spreading, and what solutions are out there around solving the riddle of protecting people from these dangerous bacteria and fungi? Tune in to find out.
To hear more from Dr. Khan, take a listen to her podcast Disorderland wherever you get your podcasts, check out her newsletter at wokescientist.substack.com, or follow her on social media @WokeScientist!
Video Game Therapy with Dr. Rachel Proffitt
With the development of more and more realistic video games and technologies, especially around the space of virtual reality, how can these technologies offer real benefits for society as a whole? In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Rachel Proffitt, Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri and Principal Investigator at the VR Augmented Rehab Lab. We chat about the many applications of virtual reality, from physical therapy to utilization as a tool for supporting neurodivergence.
You can learn more about the resources the VR Augmented Rehab lab is building by visiting their website here:
https://healthprofessions.missouri.edu/proffitt-vr-ar-lab/
The research we discuss can be found on Google Scholar here:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FreXC9IAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Consensual non-Monogamy & Mental health with Dr. Amy moors
In this episode, we explore the idea of consensual non-Monogamy, the history of CNM and the history of CNM in academic research, and the implications it has for our future understanding of the subject. How does CSM fit into a larger narrative as inclusion for alternative lifestyles are being considered more acceptable, and what does that mean for the future of CSM?
Dr. Amy C. Moors is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Faculty Affiliate in Engineering at Chapman University. She serves as a Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and the co-chair of the American Psychological Association’s Division 44 Committee on Consensual Non-Monogamy.
Check out Dr. Moors’ work:
Andy
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Death is Common in Every Species with Dr. Susana Monso
In this episode, we discuss the concept of death and how it is understood differently across the animal kingdom. If we turn towards the natural world, we can see that the minimal cognitive requirements for a Concept of Death are in fact met by many nonhuman species and there are multiple learning pathways and opportunities for animals in the wild to develop a Concept of Death. We explore this further and what this means for the way we live today and moving into the future.
Check out Dr. Monso’s work:
Andy
IG: @theandyciccone
Nash:
Twitter: @Itsnashflynn
Twitter: @DeathandFriends
Biodisaster X, Artificial Intelligence, and 6G with Dr. Dean McDonnell
In this episode, we dive into the paradigm of modern technology and ecological collapse with IT Carlow’s Dr. Dean McDonnell. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. McDonnell was an Associate Lecturer of Cyberpsychology in the Institute of Art, Design, and Technology (Dun Laoghaire), and in Educational and Developmental Psychology in Marino Institute of Education. We discuss his work “Addressing Biodisaster X Threats With Artificial Intelligence and 6G Technologies”
Check out Dr. McDonnell’s work: https://www.itcarlow.ie/research/researchers/meet-researchers-e-n/dr-dean-mcdonnell.htm
Andy
IG: @theandyciccone
Nash:
Twitter: @Itsnashflynn
Twitter: @DeathandFriends
Welcome to Tomorrow, Today!
Welcome to Tomorrow, Today, a podcast about the future we will build based on the research being done today. In our introduction, we discuss our backgrounds, our reasons for this podcast, and some of our hopes for the future and the project itself!
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Andy
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Nash:
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