Tomorrow, Today

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!

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

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 her website: http://viberyder.com/

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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?

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

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

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/

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.

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

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