Time Traveler Dispatch

Hi there! Rose here back again with another interview from the Flash Forward archives. This one is another request from Elizabeth Patitsas, and it’s my full conversation with Kate Swaffer. You heard Kate throughout the Vanguard Estates series talking about rights for folks with dementia, and what it’s like to advocate for yourself when people tend to talk over or for you.cw: this episode discusses examples of abuse and neglect in care facilities and nursing homesSome of the things we talk about on this episode:What The Hell Happened to My Brain?: Living Beyond Dementia.Love, life, loss : a roller coaster of poetry. Volume 2, Days with dementiaDiagnosed with Alzheimer’s or another dementiaMore than half of nurses ‘too busy’ to provide the best patient careDementia Alliance InternationalBoléro: 'Beautiful symptom of a terrible disease'Unravelling Boléro: progressive aphasia, transmodal creativity and the right posterior neocortexI've heard that sundowning may happen with dementia. What is sundowning and how is it treated?

Hello Time Travelers. Rose here, and I’m back with a full interview from the archives. This one is actually with two researchers, Dr. Steph Griffiths and Dr. Jarkko Jalava, who are not only collaborators but also married. You heard them on the episode about mind control and crime — the question of that episode being, could we treat or prevent or punish crime using brain implants and mind control. Some stuff we talk about, and some newer papers from Steph and Jarkko:The Myth of The Born Criminal: Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern DegenerateThe Psychopath Test by John Ronson Life as a Nonviolent PsychopathSupposed one-question “psychopath quiz”What happens when you turn a psychopath into a therapist?The protest psychosisDisability History: Early and Shifting Attitudes of TreatmentPhilosophers on psychopaths: A cautionary tale in interdisciplinarityPsychopathy: Neurohype and its consequencesThe modern degenerate: nineteenth-century degeneration theory and modern psychopathy Research

So the plan today was to do another full interview — this time with Dr. Kate Darling. We are sort of going to do that. The only snag is that I cannot for the life of me find my side of the interview audio. So what you're going to hear today is Kate answering my questions, but you won't hear my questions. I hope that's not too annoying (and if it is, please let me know and I won't do it again)! Elizabeth Patitsas requested this one, and like I always say, if there’s one you want to hear, let me know! Things we discuss in the episode (or that I think are connected and interesting):Dr. Kate DarlingThe New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with RobotsThe FFWD episode Kate was onAI The Animal by Leo Kim in DirtWays of Being by James BrindleBeasts of Burden by Sunaura Taylor

It’s bonus podcast time! And we’re doing another full interview from the archives this month. This time, it’s Sabrina Imbler, a staff writer at Defector and the the author of How Far the Light Reaches and Dyke Geology. You heard about How Far the Light Reaches in the bonus podcast last month, in our conversation with Ed Yong, and the book also recently won the LA Times Book Prize in the Science & Technology category, and I highly, HIGHLY recommend it.Here are a few things we talk about in the episode & other things I think are worth checking out:Sabrina's work at DefectorSabrina Imbler: ‘Wonder Is the Animating Force Behind a Lot of My Stories’My MetamorphosisI Scream. You Scream. Bees Scream, Too.As always, if you have requests for past guests you’d like to hear the full conversation for, let me know by email or in the Discord!

This month we’re taking a break from archival interviews and bringing you a book club conversation! Last month we were joined by Ed Yong to discuss his book An Immense World. Stuff we talked about on this episode:An Immense World by Ed YongSpider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) Yi dinosaurDr. Ashley Shew’s workElectric Fish OrchestraHow Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina ImblerStray*Note, at the end of this conversation we say we’re reading How High We Go in the Dark, but after a few people started the book we decided to switch to I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself.

It’s bonus podcast time! And we’re doing another full interview from the archives this month. This time, it’s Dr. Adam Mastroianni a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School. You heard Adam on the the HOPE episode of our show finale, and he’s got a newsletter called Experimental History that I really enjoy reading. I thought our full interview was interesting because it not only explains all these hopeful experiments in further depth, but we also talk about the ways in which science is communicated. Here are a few things we talk about in the episode & other things I think are worth checking out:Experimental HistoryThings could be better The rise and fall of peer reviewThe dance of the naked emperorsThe liking gap in groups and teamsAs always, if you have requests for past guests you’d like to hear the full conversation for, let me know by email or in the Discord!

Hello Time Travelers! This month we’re doing another full interview from the archives for this bonus podcast. This time, it’s Dean Spade, a law professor at the Seattle University School of Law. Dean is also the author of my favorite book on mutual aid, called Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next), as well as the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. Dean’s been on the show twice actually, first talking about the future of gender, and then again for our finale series about how to think about the future. This interview is from that second conversation we had, and I think Dean’s point of view is so interesting as someone who’s really on the ground trying to make better futures for the people in his community. Here are a few things we talk about in the episode & other things I think are worth checking out:Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next)Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. Abolition. Feminism. Now.Dean Spade on Gender RevealSmall but deadly: The chemical warfare of sea slugsIf you have requests for past guests you’d like to hear the full conversation for, let me know by email or in the Discord!

Hello Time Travelers! Rose here with the monthly bonus podcast. This month we’re starting to go through some of the full interviews I mentioned last time — people whose conversations were super interesting in full. And we’re starting with one of my favorite thinkers and writers right now: Dr. Ruha Benjamin, a professor in the Department of African American studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells JUTData Lab, and the author of four books including Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. You heard Ruha on the finale series in a couple of different episodes, and I have been a huge fan of her work for years now. Here are a few things we talk about in the episode:Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We WantRace After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim CodePeople’s Science: Bodies & Rights on the Stem Cell FrontierCaptivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday LifeIda B. Wells JUST Data LabFerguson is the FutureThe Ron Finley Project (Gangsta Gardener)Seattle Solidarity BudgetOctavia’s Brood“Pandemic Is a Portal” by Arundhati RoyIf you have requests for past guests you’d like to hear the full conversation for, let me know by email or in the Discord!

A whole bunch of stuff on this (long) bonus podcast: First we go through some housekeeping stuff (these bonus podcasts will now be monthly!), then I tell you all about the series we started researching and then didn't wind up producing for Flash Forward, and then we go through all the stuff we cut from the Onward and Upward series.

This is the second of two bonus podcasts for the Welcome to Vanguard Estate series. So today we are going to go over all the stuff we cut from episodes three, four and five of our behind the scenes series. So we’ll talk about technology, economics, and nursing homes, as well as do some big wrapup stuff! 

Hi everybody! 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 #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 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 primate 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 A story I'm watching: no shock here, but I'm stressed about omicron! A book I'm reading: Inventing Futurism by Christine PoggiSee 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!

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? 

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. 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 'There are just no mistakes happening': Hawk-Eye Live gains more support at Australian Open World Cup goalline technology: how does it work? 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  Julia is reading: Girls Against God by Jenny HvalRose is (re)reading: Dune by Frank Herbert (actually listening the audio book)Julia is following: Canadian woman becomes world's first patient to be diagnosed with climate change.Rose is following: Francis Haugen's weird role in tech pushback.

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

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

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) A story I’m tracking: The trial of Elizabeth Holmes has started.  A book I’m reading: The Language of the Night by Ursula K. LeGuin.

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! A story I’m tracking: The Paralympics!  A book I’m reading: Teaching Machines by Audrey Watters

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 FOR MEGAPHONE A story I’m tracking: Is something finally going to happen with anti-trust and big tech? A book I’m reading: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake