Back to the Future: A Womb Away From Home

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Long time listeners of Flash Forward might feel like this future is kind of… familiar. And it is. It’s actually the first future we ever traveled to on this show. A future where humans have invented artificial wombs. And this is a special bonus episode of Flash Forward where we’re going to go back and revisit that future, because a new piece of research recently came out about artificial wombs. I’m calling this, a BACK TO THE FUTURE episode. Related reading: Fluid-filled ‘biobag’ allows premature lambs to develop outside the womb An extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb Early Ectogenesis: Artificial Wombs in 1920s Literature The Man Who Ran a Carnival Attraction That Saved Thousands of Premature Babies Wasn’t a Doctor at All The World, the Flesh & the Devil An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus Daedalus, or Science and the Future Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth, and is part of the Boing Boing podcast family. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook or by email at info@flashforwardpod.com. We love hearing your ideas! And if you think you’ve spotted one of the little references I’ve hidden in the episode, email us there too. If you’re right, I’ll send you something cool. And if you want to support the show, there are a few ways you can do that too! We have a Patreon page, where you can donate to the show. But if that’s not in the cards for you, you can head to iTunes and leave us a nice review or just tell your friends about us. Those things really do help. That’s all for this future, come back next time, and we’ll travel to a new one! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:02.0	Flash Forward is a show about the future.
0:14.1	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:19.0	We always start with a little field trip to the future to check out what's going on,
0:23.6	and then we teleport back to today
0:25.4	to talk to experts about how that world we just heard
0:28.4	might really go down.
0:30.2	Got it?
0:31.1	Great.
0:31.9	Before we go to the future, I want to tell you about a
0:33.5	podcast that I think you're really gonna like. If you like podcast about
0:36.7	science, which I'm imagining you do because you're listening to this one, you
0:40.4	probably already listen to Science Friday. Well now there's a new podcast out from the producers of Science Friday and it's called
0:46.3	Undiscovered. Undiscovered is a show about science but it's really about the people who make
0:51.0	science happen and the left turns, false starts, and
0:53.8	hair brain schemes that happen along the way. Most science shows focus on the
0:57.7	results of scientific inquiry, but sometimes the story of how scientists got
1:02.0	to those findings is just as interesting.
1:04.7	In my opinion may be more interesting.
1:06.5	Undiscovered is a podcast about those stories.
1:09.2	In each episode, hosts Annie Minkoff and Ella Faderader introduce you to the kinds of stories that scientists
1:13.8	share when they get together over beers after work.
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