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Flash Forward BONUS
It's the BONUS PODCAST! Always in all caps, for some reason. For each episode of Flash Forward that goes out to regular listeners, this BONUS PODCAST features everything from philosophical monologues, to stuff I cut from the episode, to thoughts about the latest futurist news, secrets, behind the scenes sneak peaks, and more!
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Hi everybody! Rose here, and this is the first of two bonus podcasts for the Welcome to Vanguard Estate series. So today we are going to talk about the fiction part, the behind the scenes on that, how it came together, all that jazz. And then we’re going to do stuff that we cut from the first two reported episodes.
A few things I mention on this episode:
- Nikki’s jewelry business
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Dementia TikTok Is A Vibrant, Supportive Community
- New study confirms that Africans are the most genetically diverse people on Earth. And it claims to pinpoint our center of origin.
Next time we’ll do episodes 3, 4 and 5!
See you then.
What’s it like to work on a television show about the future? Find out on this bonus episode! I’m joined by Ozzy Llinas Goodman, Sava Saheli Singh and Tim Maughan to talk about what it was like to help create the new Netflix show The Future Of… which you can stream now!
- More about Tim Maughan
- More about Sava Saheli Singh
- Screening Surveillance
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More about Ozzy Llinas Goodman
-
The Future Of… trailer
- Watch The Future Of… on Netflix now!
All the stuff we couldn't fit into the sex robots & animal robots episodes! Plus some end of the year reflections, notes about the future of these bonus podcasts, and a bit of insight into an ad sales conundrum.
Content note: the first half of this episode is about sex robots and has mature themes and language. In the second half of the episode we talk about primate mourning, specifically infant death. Many of the links below relate to stories of infant death in primates & include footage or images.
Stuff we talk about in this bonus episode:
- Going to Work in Mommy’s Basement
- More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
- Unlocking the secrets of scar-free skin healing
- Theme issue ‘Evolutionary thanatology: impacts of the dead on the living in humans and other animals’ compiled and edited by James R. Anderson, Paul Pettitt and Dora Biro
- Thanatobase
- Primate mothers may carry infants after death as a way of grieving, study finds
- Behavioral responses around conspecific corpses in adult eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei spp.)
- Baboon thanatology: responses of filial and non-filial group members to infants’ corpses
- Jokro: The death of a wild infant chimpanzee from respiratory disease
- Evolutionary thanatology
- Mountain gorilla juvenile male Segasira with his mother Tuck's corpse
- Corvid Thanatology
- The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, by Edmund P. Evans
- India’s Punishment for Plant-Eating Donkeys: Jail Time
See you in 2022!
p.s. I have a weird feeling like I missed a yawn in editing this -- I had a yawn attack while recording the voiceover but couldn't find the yawns! I wasn't bored or tired I promise!
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Here's all the stuff we didn't have time for in this episode! It's a lot so buckle up.
Stuff we talk about in this bonus episode:
- Killer Robots (paper by Robert Sparrow, 2007)
- Q&A: Ghost Robotics CEO on Armed Robots for the U.S. Military
- What Exactly is a Killer Robot?
- Drones and the Martial Virtue Courage
- Drone pilots to get medals?
- Symptoms of Psychological Distress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in United States Air Force “Drone” Operators
- Jus in bello principles
- Hounds Of The Uncanny Valley Of Death
- Sheriff blasted for sending drone to “track down some loose cattle”
- Cyberwarfare as Ideal War
- Open Robotics by Ryan Calo
- The Automated Administrative State: A Crisis of Legitimacy
- Can you Sue An Algorithm?
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Buckle up it's a doozy this week! Julia joins us to talk about what didn't make the cut in the shrinking humans episode, and you hear all the cool stuff we couldn't fit into the sports robots episode.
How to update your address on Patreon.
Stuff we talk about in this bonus episode:
- DNA methylation signatures triggered by prenatal maternal stress exposure to a natural disaster: Project Ice Storm
- Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height
- A positively selected FBN1 missense variant reduces height in Peruvian individuals
- A study of the diurnal height changes among sample of adults aged 30 years and above in Ghana
- "average heights of women" terrible graphic
- The other story from a 'Pillow Angel' (Anne McDonald’s essay about finally being able to communicate with her parents and caretakers.)
- Will humans keep getting taller?
- Are humans driving evolution in animals?
- Daniel Pauly’s TED talk on shifting baselines
- Germany's modern pentathlon coach disqualified after punching horse
- The world's best pentathlete says he'll quit the sport if it ditches riding for cycling after the Olympic horse-punch scandal
- Modern Pentathlon Drops Equestrian Competition After Abuse Claims
- Mob Brutally Kills Soccer Referee After Player Is Stabbed And Killed In Brazil
- Your evidence? Machine learning algorithms for medical diagnosis and prediction
- Messi vs Robo keeper
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We’ve got a double feature bonus podcast today! Buckle up for behind the scenes stuff on both the “Can You Find This Human” episode AND the “What If We Could Shrink Technology?” episode.
Stuff we talk about in this bonus episode:
- Eleventh Hour
- ‘This Goes All the Way to the Queen’: The Puzzle Book that Drove England to Madness
- The Game
- Fourth US man dies hunting for buried $2m treasure
- Planning Your Escape Strategy Secrets to Make You an Escape Room Superstar by Laura Hall
- A mystery cube, a secret identity, and a puzzle solved after 15 years
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Today we go a little deeper into the gender episode!
Stuff we talk about in this episode:
- NYC: Gender Identity/Gender Expression: Legal Enforcement Guidance
- How Dressing in Drag Was Labeled a Crime in the 20th Century
- NYPD Uses Law From 1845 To Arrest Masked Protestors In Financial District
- A Brief Criminal History of the Mask
- Sexnet paper
- Escape Pod 170: Pervert
- The Problem With ‘Uber For Therapy’
- The Spooky, Loosely Regulated World of Online Therapy
- Amazon Unveils ‘Astro,' a Privacy Nightmare Robot That Follows You Around
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Today Julia joins the bonus podcast to talk about what they learned that didn’t make the final cut of the episode! Featuring fun fact about why there are so many fire fighters, children who fought fires, why three-pronged plugs are fire safety devices, and a tangent from me about fish.
Stuff we talk about in this episode:
- Cooking actually caused more fire deaths in 2014–2018 than in 1980–1984.
- Experimental Study of Induction Cooker Fire Hazard
- The five different types of fire extinguisher
- What Type of Fire Extinguisher Should Be Used on an Oil or Grease Fire?
- How To Use A Fire Extinguisher
- Our prettiest pollutant: just how bad are fireworks for the environment?
- Effect of fireworks events on urban background trace metal aerosol concentrations: Is the cocktail worth the show?
- Young flames: The effects of childhood exposure to fire on adult attitudes. (PDF downlaod)
- U.S. fire department profile
- What fire departments do
- Private vs. public ambulance services: What's the difference?
- History of fire extinguishers
- The unequal vulnerability of communities of color to wildfire
- Inequality in Agency Responsiveness: Evidence from Salient Wildfire Events
- The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US Counties: a century of data (PDF download)
- Why we work with fire (these are images Julia is talking about re: different controlled burn scenarios)
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On today’s episode you hear the very weird rabbit holes I fall down when researching, a lot of facts about alligators and crocodiles, why I failed a lot of classes in school, tips for how to join a mutual aid group, the future of Flash Forwarrd, and about one of my big non-Flash Forward projects which is now almost out in the world!
Stuff we talk about in this episode:
- Cuban crocodiles play
- Alligator bellowing
- Alligator social displays
- Social behavior of desert tortoises
- What the limits of traditional accounting mean for the future of food
- LISTEN TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY HERE!
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Stuff we talk about in this episode:
- Scientists just discovered the first brainless animal that sleeps
- Do all animals sleep?
- How do trees go to sleep?
- How Much Should Kids Sleep? Nobody Knows For Sure
- The CRTC1-SIK1 Pathway Regulates Entrainment of the Circadian Clock
I cut SO much stuff from the main episode! The first cut of the main episode was almost 90 minutes long, so we really trimmed out a lot. This bonus ep includes:
- A lot more about Sidney Gottlieb, who he was as a person, and why his background made him the perfect person to run MKUltra.
- More about the history of the idea of "psychopaths" and why the personality test that supposedly identifies them is wrong.
- Why a lot of experts roll their eyes at Jim Fallon and his various talks (like this one) about the psychopath brain, and his own self diagnosis as a psychopath.
- The history of the idea of "protest psychosis."
- The history of institutionalization and prisons, and why criminology experts think there are so many folks with mental health diagnoses behind bars right now.
- Some of the potential side effects of neural implants that make decisions for you or impact your decision making processes.
- And more!
NOTE: This episode continues to talk about some of the intense topics we cover in the main episode including violent crime, torture, prison and abuse.
Links and books I mention in this episode:
- The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai
- Jim Fallon’s TED Talk about psychopaths
- The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Diseaseby Johnathan Metzl
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Stuff we talk about in this episode:
- Joseph Anton Nagel’s research paper from 1748
- World's 'oldest known cave painting' found in Indonesia
- ‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in our place
- Life on Earth may have developed below rather than above ground, reveal scientists
- Lakota emergence story
- Havre Beneath the Streets
- Who owns the space under cities? The attempt to map the earth beneath us
- After 40 years' burrowing, Mole Man of Hackney is ordered to stop
- Hobby tunneling
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Stuff we talk about in this episode:
- “The Cathedral and the Starship: Learning from the Middle Ages for Future Long-Duration Projects.”
- Peaks of Eternal Light by Pyre of Descent
- The peaks of eternal light: A near-term property issue on the moon
Stuff we talked about on this episode:
- What even is a city?
- How do you figure out what was going on in ancient cities when nobody wrote anything down?
- Why doesn’t the ADA make cities accessible?
- How can you hold tech companies to a higher standard?
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Stuff we talked about on this episode:
- An overview of human prion diseases
- The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen
- Kuru: the first prion disease
- The Man-Eating Myth
- A Lab Accident Likely Led to a Woman's Death From Brain-Destroying Prions 9 Years Later
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Stuff we talked about on this episode:
- The myth of the komodo dragon
- Komodo dragons actually kill with venom
- No Ill Nature: The Surprising History and Science of Poison Ivy and Its Relatives
- The Arsenic Eaters
- Darwin might have had health problems because he used arsenic as a tonic
- Aqua Tofana: slow-poisoning and husband-killing in 17th century Italy
- Could ‘alcosynth’ provide all the joy of booze – without the dangers?
- Alcohol is more dangerous than heroine or crack?
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It's the last bonus episode for a while! And it's a big one. Today we're talking about: parallel universes, how the season went (the good, the bad, the ugly), next season and what's going to happen to this bonus feed in the meantime, and the full conversation I had with Max and Amal. Plus, as always, a little secret.
Here's the big recap post I talked about.
Today we talk about the pros and cons of burning trash for power, a bit about why plastic is bad, and I go on a whole rant about gadget reviewers. Plus, as always, a secret. This one is about caterpillars.
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The aliens episode could have easily been two hours long so today we go over all sorts of stuff that I cut: theories about Venus life, the ethics of covering a controversial paper, how network theory might teach us about exoplanets, what a Very Large Telescope even is and more! Plus you hear what ever guest's favorite alien-related science fiction is.
Further reading:
- THE TOPOLOGY OF ATMOSPHERIC CHEMICAL REACTION NETWORKS: A POTENTIAL NEW BIOSIGNATURE FOR EXOPLANETS. (PDF)
- The Space NDN’s Star Map by Lou Cornum
Everybody’s favorite sci-fi:
- Moiya & Mike: Star Trek (no surprise)
- Jaime Green: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell & Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
- Kathryn Denning: “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang / Arrival & The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- Michael Oman Reagan: Solaris by Stanslaw Lem & E.T. & “We Are Listening” by Diane Ackerman
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Today we talk about stuff I cut from Home Sweet Home, something I forgot to say about the Land Back episode, and a few other odds and ends.
A few publications & organizations run by unhoused folks to check out:
- Picture the Homeless
- National Coalition for the Homeless
- Street Sheet
- We the Unhoused podcast
- Street Spirit
More on Project Room Key
More on Modern Monetary Theory:
- Modern Monetary Theory: How MMT is challenging the economic establishment
- Modern Monetary Theory: A Beginner's Guide
- The Economist Who Believes the Government Should Just Print More Money
More on land acknowledgements:
- Indigenous Land Acknowledgement, Explained
- A guide to Indigenous land acknowledgement
- Land Reparations & Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit
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Today we talk about #LandBack, McGirt v Oklahoma, and a few odds and ends.
Some readings on McGirt:
- News Media Writers: Please Stop Saying “Half” of Oklahoma is “Indian Lands” or “Indian Territory” — It’s Not (Yet)
- How Native Tribes Started Winning at the Supreme Court
On today's dispatch: what we didn't include in the episode, some thoughts about the election, a few scheduling notes, and as always a secret at the end.
Links to info about disability and voting:
- Voters With Disabilities Face Barriers in 2020 From COVID-19
- Voter Turnout Surged Among People With Disabilities Last Year. Activists Want to Make Sure That Continues in 2020
- The Supreme Court’s Alabama Ruling Could Disenfranchise Thousands of High Risk Voters
On today's bonus up: the history of digital twins, a critique of blood pressure, and what should we use as a metaphor for the body?
Stuff I mention:
Apollo 13: The First Digital Twin
Origins of the Digital Twin Concept
The Flesh of the World: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
On today's (long!) bonus episode: the full (ish) cut of Julia and I taking personality tests, a bit more about the ADA and hiring algorithms, the history of the Myers Briggs, and some behind the scenes stuff about podcast ads and the Advice show.
Ologies: Personality Psychology with Dr. Simine Vazire
The Big Five personality test
The Best Menstrual Cups
Today we talk about the BOOK, and some other fun updates.
PRE-ORDER THE BOOK HERE (please)
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More on Dr. Olabisi.
Stuff I talk about on this episode:* The Spark of Life: Electricity and Regeneration * Effects of electrical stimulation on rat limb regeneration, a new look at an old model * Stimulation of Partial Limb Regeneration in Rats * The paradox of model organisms. The use of model organisms in research will continue despite their shortcomings * Study Backs Flexner Report's Negative Impact on Black Physicians * Projected Estimates of African American Medical Graduates of Closed Historically Black Medical Schools * Racial Bias in Flexner Report Permeates Medical Education Today * Virtual Event: Technology and Anti-Black Surveillance * YouTube: Technology and Anti-Black Surveillance
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Today's episode: California fires, a lot of logistical updates from me, how humans won out over Neandertals.
As blazes spread, Covid-19 in California prisons hits crucial inmate firefighting force
Evacuate CMF and Solano State Prisons from Wildfire Danger!
Bread CSA!
On today’s episode you get to meet Julia Llinas Goodman! Flash Forward’s first EVER associate producer!
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This podcast has a new fancy name! And today some behind the scenes on the Dollars for Data episode.
Stuff I mentioned:
- Many Maps (New Yorker 1935)
- Conflicts of Interest: Are Humans Inherently Selfish?
- Personal data isn't the new oil
Transcripts for these episodes now live here.
Today's episode is packed with surprises and experiments and interesting stuff! Let me know if you can see the pictures?
We cover: what actually makes a biome, whether we should let grizzlies and polar bears mate, and what the ethics of dropping pork out of helicopters is.
Transcripts for these episodes now live here.
On today’s bonus episode we talk a bit more about the book Population Bomb, the Green Revolution, why there are more male babies born, and why China chose to let Americans adopt their babies.
Jade's book
Leslie's book
Interview with Paul Ehrlich
Not a ton to say on today's bonus episode, but I covered a bit of behind the scenes on talking to Sergio Canavero, my thoughts about animal cognition and head transplants, some updates on the Flash Forward book, and my plans for ShutDownSTEM. I hope you're all staying safe and activated and thinking about how to make a better future!
ShutDownSTEM info here
Onward and upward.
On today's episode: other celeb cities, foods named after people, the Thunder Stone, and a bit more about the membership program.
- 169 Song Titles with Parentheticals (In Order of Parenthetical Charm)
- Fordlandia
- List of foods named after people
- The Thunderstone
- La Nature article about The Thunderstone
Thanks for listening!
This is a long one! On today's episode you hear:
- The process of putting this big wild episode together.
- What five years means to me, personally, as the maker of this thing.
- A sneak peak at the trailer for the advice show.
- Some behind the scenes on a few upcoming announcements and business decisions I’m making in the Flash Forward universe.
- Every single full answer that I got from past guests, voice actors, and even some of you!
Today's BONUS EPISODE is a short one, and it gets into some inside baseball on the Flash Forward finances and spinoffs. Hopefully that's interesting?
Stuff I mentioned:
24/7 by Jonathan Crary
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humbolt's New World by Andrea Wulf
Should I make a book of the answers to the future postcard prompt? Let me know what you think!
We're back! New episodes of Flash Forward mean new episodes of the BONUS PODCAST. On today's episode I talk about a spacecraft that may have died due to a Year 2038-like problem, a time traveler, and why I built a beach full of eggs in Animal Crossing.
Some links we discuss in the episode:
- NASA Declares End to Deep Impact Comet Mission
- Images and GIFs from the Deep Impact mission
- The Oral History of John Titor, the Man Who Traveled Back in Time to Save the Internet
- Who was John Titor, the 'time traveller' who came from 2036 to warn us of a nuclear war?
- WORLDLINE 2036
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On today's Bonus Episode you get to hear my interview with Siddharth Suri (aka Sid). Sid is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research – AI and the co-author of the book Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, which was the Flash Forward Book Club pick for December. We talk about what ghost work really is, why he wanted to write the book, what can be done to protect workers, and whether or not reporting this changed anything at Microsoft, where both he and his co-author Mary Gray work. After the interview, I talk a tiny bit about what's next for Flash Forward, updates on the Patreon, and as always a secret.
Here's the episode of Ologies I mentioned, that I'm on.
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On today’s BONUS PODCAST I talk about the history of this episode’s idea, I’m going to play you the Drone Gods manifesto, from Infinite Detail, and I’ll tell the tale of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Plus, a bit of a year recap, updates on some Patreon rewards, and what you’ll hear in this Bonus Podcast while the show is on a break. Buckle up!
Stuff I mention:
- Mothers Against Sinister Technology (my fiction piece at VICE)
- M.A.D.D: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (1983) TV Movie
- The MADD queen: Charisma and the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving
- Perpetual trauma and its organizations: Mothers Against Drunk Driving and drunk driving revisited
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD): The First 25 Years
- Mothers Against Drunk Driving—MADD in the USA
- Whither the drunk driving movement?: The social and programmatic orientations of mothers against drunk driving
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On today’s episode, you’ll hear a bit of background on the Hong Kong protests, why this episode was an extreme challenge for me in many ways, a bit about next week’s episode, and the impending break the show will take, and what I’m thinking about for next year! Plus, as always, a secret.
Some additional reading on the Hong Kong protests:
- Why Are People Protesting in Hong Kong?
- In Hong Kong, Which Side Is Technology On?
- The new battle in Hong Kong isn’t on the streets; it’s in the apps
- In Hong Kong Protests, Faces Become Weapons
Please do let me know if you have thoughts about the questions I ponder re: Patreon and this bonus podcast. And be on the lookout for some polls about some Patreon changes in the next week!
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On today's BONUS POD we talk about cold fusion, the chances that humans go extinct, the Flash Forward book club, and the future of Flash Forward the podcast. * Legitimate Cold Fusion Exists | Muon-Catalyzed Fusion * An upper bound for the background rate of human extinction * Ethical Challenges in Human Space Missions: A Space Refuge, Scientific Value, and Human Gene Editing for Space * “The End? Science, conservation, and social justice as necessary tools for preventing the otherwise inevitable human extinction?” * “The entwined Cold War roots of missile defense and climate geoengineering.”
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On today's bonus episode you hear about prohibition, the dinner program for the motor convoy, what I'm ready, and a very stinky secret.
- The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American Stateby Lisa McGirr
- ‘The War on Alcohol,’ by Lisa McGirr (NYT book review)
- 1919 motor convoy daily log
- 1919 motor convoy commemorative program
- Whistling Doughboy Is Hit at Local Theater (Indianapolis Star)
And here's a picture of my smelly dog:
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Hey all!
Happy new mini-season! I'm back with the bonus episodes that go with each main episode. On this one I talk about the stuff I cut from the episode, update you on episode 100 merch, talk about a bit of my recent traveling and other stuff, and tell you a secret about one of my favorite podcasters!
Here's the 99 Percent Invisible episode I mentioned.
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Hello bFFs! Rose here with a bonus podcast interview with Gretchen McCoulloch, the author of Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, which was the Flash Forward Book Club book for August. It was a really fun conversation, and she read my "emoji horoscope" and I hope you enjoy it!
Some things we mention in today's episode:
- Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
- Gretchen's website
- Gretchen's WIRED columns
- Gretchen's work at The Toast (RIP)
- Lingthusiasm (Gretchen's podcast)
- El Bloombito
- A bit more about the woman behind the El Bloombito account
- Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book by Jomny Sun
- Jonny Sun's Twitter account
New episodes coming November 12th! And keep your eyes peeled for special advanced links to new merch to celebrate the 100th episode!
Thanks for listening!
Rose
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Just a quick little hello and some exciting Flash Forward news!
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On today's Bonus Episode you hear the full debate the teens had about MOON COURT! Also: a section I cut about past crimes in moon-like situations, a conversation about the language we use to talk about space ("colony" or "settlement?") and why I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to write the section about Anne McClain. Plus: why I felt like I was in a movie while writing this episode, a loooong rambling thing about trying to fund weird projects that aren't Flash Forward, and as always what I'm reading, and a secret.
Readings related to this episode:
- Someday, Someone Will Commit a Major Crime in Space
- Man faces attempted murder charge after stabbing at Russia's Antarctic outpost
- A Legal and Criminological Approach to Criminal Acts in Outer Space
- The Racist Language of Space Exploration
- Decolonizing Mars
- Becoming Interplanetary
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Today's BONUS EPISODE is super full of all the stuff I had to cut from this week's show. The history of fingerprinting! Whether every fingerprint is even different or not!? The parallels between India’s biometrics today, and their role in forensic history. The people who think we should all have to register our DNA into a national database! Plus, a special treat — an expert joins me to talk about the latest satellite collision news. And, as always, what I'm reading, and a secret.
Stuff I mention:
- William James Herschel papers on fingerprinting, 1818-1932.
- Why your fingerprints may not be unique
- A Review of the FBI's Handling of the Brandon Mayfield Case
- The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield
- Maryland v. King
- A bug in SpaceX’s communication system kept the company in the dark about potential satellite collision
- On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future by Devon Powers
- Cyborg Detective by Jillian Weise
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Look how on time this episode is! Thanks to everybody who reached out saying you do listen, and that you didn't bug me about this because you are kind and patient. What did I do to deserve listeners like you!?
Today's Bonus Episode includes:
- The full cut of the teens talking about algorithms and justice.
- An update on the status of Flash Forward, and why I'm abandoning the mini-season format.
- A few cases I cut from the episode, including a drug purchasing algorithm and a $25 billion dollar mistake.
- A secret that includes a story about me writing a "book" as a kid about a stowaway rat.
Oh boy, well, this Bonus Episode is LATE and I'm sorry! I just... didn't get it done last week. But it's here, it's done, and we're all going to pretend like everything is totally normal.
On this episode, I’m talk about the Amazon fires, what you can do if you don’t live in Brazil, and about how governments suppress certain imagery from satellites. And, at the end I’ll talk about what I’m reading, and tell you a secret.
Links I reference in this episode:
- The world has the power to make Brazil’s Bolsonaro pay for his destruction of the Amazon
- JAIR BOLSONARO PRAISED THE GENOCIDE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. NOW HE’S EMBOLDENING ATTACKERS OF BRAZIL’S AMAZONIAN COMMUNITIES.
- Dispute Over Amazon Gets Personal for Bolsonaro and Macron
- Brazilian indigenous peoples propose boycott
- Brazil Marshals Forces to Fight Amazon Fires (and Restore ‘Positive Perception’)
- USGS EROS Archive - Commercial Satellites - Commercial Data Purchases (CDP) Imagery
- How the Government Controls Sensitive Satellite Data
- Shutter Control: An Approach to Regulating Imagery from Privately-Operated RS Satellites
- Written Out Newsletter
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On today's episode: teens arguing! More thoughts about animals! Why I was super stressed about this episode! A rant about facial recognition jewelry! And, of course, a secret.
Some links I mention in the show:
- Facing Tomorrow's High-Tech School Surveillance
- Does A Pregnant Giraffe Deserve Privacy?
- Zoos: Public Places to View Private Lives
- Wired Wilderness
- Television wildlife documentaries and animals’ right to privacy
- Pandopticon: The Panda Cam & Animal Surveillance
- The Selfie Monkey Goes to the Ninth Circuit
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Hello there! I'm back in your bonus ears (did you know you even had those?! they grow once you become a Patron) to share an interview with Angela Saini, the author of Superior: The Return of Race Science. Angela is also the author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story. The books are great to read in tandem, because they're both about the ways that science has been used to further incorrect and damaging myths about marginalized groups. A note: this episode discusses racism and touches on online harassment. Use that information however is useful to you.
Also in this bonus episode: some updates on Flash Forward, some updates on the format of this bonus podcast, what I'm reading right now, and a secret about my new hobby.
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On today's Bonus Episode you'll hear the dadbot joke that didn't make the final cut of Ghostbot, along with a bit of a debrief about this whole mini-season concept, what I’m thinking about for the next mini-season, and my upcoming trip to Malawi! Also, apologies if this one is rambly and long, my brain is melted this week.
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On today's bonus episode I interview Kameron Hurley about her novel The Light Brigade, which was the Flash Forward Book Club pick for March.
SPOILERS ABOUND!!!! We discuss the ending and the big reveal and a lot of other spoilers so if you don't want to know what happens, don't listen.
I'll also note that while regular episodes of Flash Forward almost never include cursing, this bonus episode does! Use that information however you like.
To join the book club and get access to conversations about each month's books, and the chance to suggest questions for me to ask the authors when I do these interviews, become a $7+ patron! Here's how to edit your pledge.
Some things we discuss on this episode:
- The Light Brigade original short story
- The map of The Light Brigade plot
- Kirkus Review of The Light Brigade
- Verge review of The Light Brigade
- Chernobyl on HBO
- Chernobyl podcast
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Hi friends! On today's bonus episode I reveal how the vocal algorithm surprise went, talk about two different court cases, the history of eugenics, and why sometimes I struggle with more philosophical episodes (so much to read!). I also reveal my makeup skills (lacking) and talk a bit about how much I should put myself into the regular episodes of Flash Forward.
Here are some links to stuff I mention:
Metro-North Commuter Railroad Co. v. Buckley
Marchica v. Long Island RR
Marchica v. Long Island Railroad: "AIDS-Phobia" Recovery under the Federal Employers' Liability Act
Fear of Disease and the Puzzle of Futures Cases in Tort
Found In The Archives: America's Unsettling Early Eugenics Movement
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Hi buds! Sorry this (and the transcript) are going out late this week. I'm in DC for a wedding and I've been running around like mad. Plus my dog tore her doggy ACL, which is no fun for anybody. Anyway, this episode is full of stuff I cut out of the This Is Not A Test episode: a long history of animal testing, the laws around cosmetics testing, a story about deadly eye makeup, and more.
Stuff I mentioned on this episode:
'Brute to the Brutes?': Descartes' Treatment of Animals by John Cottingham
Three Horrifying Pre-FDA Cosmetics
E.U. Bans Cosmetics With Animal-Tested Ingredients
China Will No Longer Require Animal Testing On Cosmetic Products
Leaping Bunny Certification
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On today's Bonus Episode I talk about naming this bonus episode (Jackpaudio!?) and how to start each one. Hear how this episode came together at the very last minute, why I'm doing a Patreon drive right now, and whether I'll open the drive up to current patrons who up their pledge. You'll hear some stats I cut out of the episode about tattoos and tattoo acceptability, as well as hear Quinn Grundy and Ace Ratfcliff both talk about their experiences having to cover up tattoos at work. And, at the very end, a disgusting story about ticks.
Pun generator: punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/
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On today's bonus episode you hear the interview I did with Lynne MacTavish, that didn't include in the main episode. You also hear why I decided to cut it from the episode! Plus, a bit more about the voice actors, an outtake from a sound effects recording session in which my boyfriend falls on his face, a rant about biohacking, and some very cute tape about star gazing.
How to help rhinos:
- Earthwatch: Conserving Rhinos
- Nikela
- Save the Rhino
- International Anti-Poaching Foundation
Back next week with another future, and another behind the scenes episode!
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Hello Patrons!
I'm back for a quick hello and to share an interview I did with Amy Webb, the author of The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, which was the Flash Forward Book Club book for April! If you want to join the club, all you have to do is up your pledge to $7 an episode. When you do that, you’ll get access to the Slack community where you get to discuss the books, suggest other books, ask questions of the authors for me to ask in these interviews, and vote on what to read next.
This month, May, we’re reading The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley, which I’m excited about! Join us!
Hi Patrons!
Surprise! Bonus episode! This time I'm back with an interview with Charlie Jane Anders, author of The City in the Middle of the Night, which was the March Flash Forward Book Club book! We talk about world building, character development, climate change, memory, trauma and more. She also answers questions from book club members!
🚨🚨🚨 IMPORTANT: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS! 🚨🚨🚨
I can't really overstate how many spoilers are in this conversation. Because this interview is mostly for folks in the book club, who have read the book, Charlie Jane and I talk about all kinds of things that happen in the book, including many, many spoilers. If you haven't read the book and want to avoid spoilers TURN BACK! DO NOT PRESS PLAY!
If you want to join the book club so you can ask questions of the authors in the future, and discuss the books with smart Flash Forward listeners, you can do that by joining at a $7+ level.
Thanks! Hope you enjoy!
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Hey Patrons! Here's the talk I gave at The Exploratorium last week. I was trying to find a still from the video to share with you, but all I learned is that I make completely bizarre faces while I talk?
Anyway, here's the slide deck to go with the talk (also attached), if you want to follow along with images! This version won't have the GIFs or the animations but taken together it probably makes 95% of the talk. You can imagine the rest! I've trained you for this!
I didn't include the Q&A at the end because a lot of the question askers didn't use the mic so it's impossible to hear what their questions were.
Other notes: I share another secret on this episode! Also, $10 patrons who are waiting on goody bags they're going in the mail today or tomorrow! Sorry for the delay. You're getting a brand new mini-zine in these goody bags so it will be worth the wait I hope!
Hope you enjoy!
Today we talk Ponzi schemes, banking, fraud, whales, weaponizing uncertainty, and whether or not The Snowglobe was a terrible idea. Plus, I share my secret for when you're at a party and you have no idea what to talk about.
Stuff I mention on this episode:
- Sarah Howe (fraduster)
- Depicting a Female Fraud: Sarah Howe and the Boston Women's Bank
- WOMAN ON WOMEN FRAUD: MRS. HOWE AND THE LADIES' DEPOSIT.
- The Ladies' Deposit: Created by Women for Ripping Off Women
- The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin
- A Short History of Enclosure in Britain
- The Anti-Democratic Origins of Capitalism: The Tragedy of the Commons
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Happy episode day! Today's bonus features a conversation about Roman concrete (was it really better than what we have today?) the end of the Internet (what would it take to shut it all down?) and what I'm reading right now (very wonky books).
Here are the Roman concrete studies I found interesting:
- Lessons from Roman Cement and Concrete
- Phillipsite and Al-tobermorite mineral cements produced through low-temperature water-rock reactions in Roman marine concrete
- The fracture toughness of an Imperial Roman mortar
- The ROMACONS Project: A contribution to the historical and engineering analysis of hydraulic concrete in Roman maritime structures
As always, if there's anything you want me to talk about on these bonus episodes let me know!
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Happy behind the scenes! Not much got cut from this week's episode, but I do talk about fashion filtration masks, what I wish I had included in the piece, and what I'm up to on the live show front!
Here's the piece I wrote for The Goods about what it would take for face masks to become a popular accessory.
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On today's bonus episode I talk about what fact checking an episode of Flash Forward entails, what it was like working with actors in person for the intro scenes this season, what The Snowglobe canon is, why the Earth is like a hummingbird, and my eternal struggle against scripting these very episodes.
I hope you enjoy!
p.s. Patreon gives me no data on whether or not anybody listens to these so I have truly no clue if any of you are actually listening!? If you want to listen to these with your podcasting app, you can do that by using the custom RSS link that Patreon provides. Here's where to find that link:
Hi Patrons!
On today's bonus episode I talk about conspiracy theories, chemtrails, climate models, and why maybe it's time to stop using models as the base unit of all climate chance policy conversations. You hear from Jane Flegal, and you also hear the train that goes by my house. Enjoy!
🚀Rose
Hi Patrons! This is the first of the new bonus episodes I'm doing for $5+ folks. For every episode there will be one of these, where I talk unscripted (eek! terrifying!) about some of the ideas and topics that came up in the most recent episode. Sometimes these will include bits of interviews I couldn't use, other times they'll be me riffing on ideas and thoughts that I didn't find a place for in the episode.
This time I'm talking about the big ideas behind the upcoming season, the current status of Flash Forward ads sales, and some of my goals for the next year of the show. If there's anything you want me to talk about on these, I'm all ears!
If you want to get these audio updates in your podcast app, you can do that! Each of you should have access to your very own Patron Only RSS Feed. Here's where you can find that link:
If you have any questions about how to make this work, let me know! I'll do my best to troubleshoot. It's possible that your podcasting app doesn't work with this system. Unfortunately there's not a lot I personally can do about that. If you think you have a better way of distributing these Patron only audio updates, let me know! I'm all ears :)
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Hi friends. I'm working on a little trailer to promote Flash Forward when it returns. I wanted to share the cut I have right now with you all, as a little behind the scenes thing. It's still rough, but I think it's fun. It turns out remembering fun little one liners to pull for a trailer is hard! If you have any lines you remember loving from episodes please let me know! I should really keep track of those things while I'm cutting episodes, but of course I haven't.
Season Four drops March 27th! So soon! This month! Ack! Back to work!
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Hello patrons! I’m back with a little bonus bit that got cut from last week’s episode. Deceptible Me was all about self-deception, and the ways it pops up for good and for ill in our lives. There’s a form of self deception that I’m super fascinated by, but that I didn't have time to include: hypnosis. So here's a ~5 minute segment on hypnosis that I cut because the episode was getting kind of long. If you want to hear more about the hynpnotist and the boy with the fish skin, here's the original paper about him from 1952. Radiolab also devoted a whole segment in their Placebo episode to him. And Mason also wrote a paper tracing his evolution from an anesthetist to a hypnotist that is worth reading.
Hope you enjoyed this cutting-room-floor snippet!
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Hello Robot Butler pals!This behind the scenes update is a bit of audio that got cut from this week's episode. Christine told this delightful story, but I wound up cutting it for time. I wanted to share it with you all as a fun bonus extra.
Enjoy!
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This is my conversation with Ann Leckie. When we spoke, Ann was the author of Ancillary Justice, a fantastic book about space and identity lots of other stuff. You should just read it. By now, she’s the author of two more books in that trilogy, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy, which you should also check out! I talked to Ann for season one episode 21, about a future where gender doesn’t matter. If you missed the episode, you can go back and listen to it via your podcasting app, or you can find it on Soundcloud or our website . The episode is called “Bye Bye Binary” if you want to search for it.
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This is my full interview with Finn Brunton from waaaaay back in season one. Finn is an assistant professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, where he works on the history and theory of computing and digital media technologies. Finn also writes a very excellent newsletter, which you can subscribe to here . I talked to Finn for season 1 episode 7, which was about a future without the Internet. If you missed the episode, you can go back and listen to it via your RSS feed now, or you can find it on Soundcloud or our website . The episode is called “The Day the Internet Broke.”
As always, if there’s somebody I had on the show that you’d like to hear more from, email me! info@flashforwardpod.com. In a few weeks you’ll hear the full interview I did with Ann Leckie, another one from season one.
Enjoy!
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Hey patrons! Did you forget about me yet? I hope not. I'll keep dropping these bonus interviews and other stuff while the show is on a break. Hope you enjoy them!
This is the full conversation I had with Amanda & Julia from Spirits Podcast about the future of witches, space tech, and how to deep read a text written by an AI.
New episodes of Flash Forward drop November 1st!
(also check out the really cool fan art that Trevor Knapp Jones did for this episode!)
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This week's bonus interview is the one I did with Claire North, author of The Sudden Appearance of Hope, for the episode on quantified self stuff. It's a fun one!
Oh and there are no spoilers in this interview, in part because I hadn't completely finished the book when I talked to her (I know! I know! I was so close but not quite done! I've finished it now!) and in part because I edited a few of them out.
Last thing: she mentions a picture I sent her from this bodyhacking conference I went to (which is where I first internet-met Patron Chris Novus. Hi Chris!). The photo in question is the one above. "Nobody's Perfect. Yet."
Bonus full interview! This is the conversation I had with Madeline Ashby from our episode about sex robots. So, just like the episode, this bonus interview is probably not one to listen to with your kids. Obviously that’s up to you, but we do discuss sex and sex organs and sex toys and that kind of stuff. So, consider yourself warned.
Thanks for your patronage!