Here We Are

Shane talks with game developer and audio engineer, Robin Arnott, about his new interactive game called SoundSelf. They are joined by visionary artist, Topher Sipes. Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon  More at www.herewearepodcast.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane talks about mushrooms with Naturalist Lyndzee Rhine at The Great Plains Nature Center. How do mushrooms procreate and do they sprout annually? Look for Lyndzees book "A Pocket Guide for the Common Kansas Mushrooms." More from Lyndzee here -> https://gpnc.org/thats-my-favorite/morel-madness-ft-lyndzee-rhine/ Outro music by The Long Hunt Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: More at http://www.herewearepodcast.com My main site https://www.shanemauss.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a few months since I talked about Covid-19 itself and this was a fantastic guest. Olamide Jarrett is Associate Professor of Medicine and Infectious Disease at The University of Illinois Chicago. She has spent a career working studying STI’s in women and treating HIV patients. She only took one break from that to go to the front lines during the Ebola outbreak. If she is worried about getting Covid-19, it’s probably worth hearing why. Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: More at http://www.herewearepodcast.com My main site https://www.shanemauss.com Get behind the scenes content AND support the team at Shane Mauss is creating Podcasts, Digital Content, and Live Shows! | Patreon Partners Audio books Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWE

Shane talks with Joshua M. Tybur, an Associate Professor in the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at VU Amsterdam, about the psychology of disgust and avoidance. Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon  More at www.herewearepodcast.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane talks with Erin Buchanan, a Professor of Cognitive Analytics at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. They discuss the various ways language is processed and shapes our culture. Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon  More at www.herewearepodcast.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane talks about bees with Arizona Research Conservation Scientist, Kim Franklin. Where does the Honey Bee rank among the 20,000+ species of bees. How do honey bees compete with Native North American bees and why are they important to agriculture.   Learn more about Kim's work  http://www.desertmuseum.org https://www.tucsonbeecollaborative.com/   Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And! there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with our other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/he... All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live

Shane reunites with musician, artist, writer, and host of Future Fossils Podcast, Michael Garfield. They discuss the difficulty of scientific communication and understanding data to make accurate predictions.  Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon  More at www.herewearepodcast.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane talks about the evolving world of online education with seasoned learning designer, instructor, researcher, and trainer, Laura Pasquini. How will the future of learning change in the wake of a pandemic?   Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! https://www.quarantinecouple.net  Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE   And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare   All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon    More at www.herewearepodcast.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane talks about perception and threat with Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Information Sciences at The University of California, Merced, Colin Holbrook. What other factors, besides size and strength, can impact our perception of threat.  Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And! there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with our other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/he... All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane talks about bats with Associate Professor of Biology at Southern New Hampshire, Katharine York. Was White Nose disease brought to the United States by a modern-day caveman and should we be alarmed about the spread of this disease? Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And! there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with our other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/he... All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane talks Forestry, the environment, diversity and change with the Assistant Dean of Community and Inclusion at The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies,Thomas Easley. Thomas shares with Shane his path into Forestry Science and how he brought his outdoorsman skills to the city. What is "Hip Hop Forestry?" Has this quarantine time made us step back, slow down and rethink what we may have been missing and rethink how we intend to live the rest of our lives.  Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And! there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with our other partner The Great Courses http://

Shane finds out what life is like living in a Biosphere for 2 years. In this episode, he talks with Dr. Mark Nelson, who is a founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics. Mark has also worked for several decades in closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, the restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture and orchardry and wastewater recycling. He is Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Ecotechnics (www.ecotechnics.edu), a U.K. and U.S. non-profit organization, which consults to several demonstration projects working in challenging biomes around the world; Vice Chairman of Global Ecotechnics Corp. (www.globalecotechnics.com), head of Wastewater Gardens International (www.wastewatergardens.com). Did the Biosphere give birth to "Big Brother" and what kind of animals were permitted to live inside with the Biospherians. Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and suppor

Kristina Durante research lies at the intersection of social psychology, evolutionary biology, and consumer decision-making. Kristina’s research program focuses on how our evolved biology (ancestral ecology and internal physiological systems) and our modern social environment interact to influence behavior. Kristina Durante https://kristinadurante.com is an associate professor of marketing at Rutgers School for Business https://www.business.rutgers.edu/facu... and the director at The Center for Women in Business https://www.business.rutgers.edu/cent... Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple! https://www.quarantinecouple.net Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And! there has never been a

Shane talks with Professor of Psychology and University of Tennessee Knoxville, Garriy Shteynberg. Garriy explains that human beings communicate by establishing a collective perspective via referencing common knowledge. How has this collective perspective changed during this global pandemic and how might it change how we communicate in a Post-Corona Virus world. Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And! there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with another partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/he... All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

Shane talks with Professor Shawn Green about the concerns and benefits of playing video games during a pandemic and how they can fill voids and give people a sense of autonomy and control.  Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support:   Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And! there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with another partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare   All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How has pressing pause on humanity given us a new look at climate change?  Is this a fire drill for worse things to come? Is this a chance to help our ecosystem or a threat to the regulations protecting it? Who thought of this idea of the carbon footprint in the first place?  What would create a bigger impact, change at an individual level or at a policy level?     Admittedly, I don’t talk about climate science nearly enough on the show.  So atmospheric scientist Katherine Hayhoe was like water in the desertification.  So enlightening and important.  It brings me great hope to know that people like Katherine are working on behalf of humanity.   Check out everything she does! http://www.katharinehayhoe.com/wp2016/ www.drawdown.org www.globalweirdingseries.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaEBhRsI6tmmz12fkSEYdw   Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support:   Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. They

Raj Sivaraman is a comedian with a PHD in virology. He joins the show to talk about living in NYC right now, comedy, and virology. Join us as we reminisce about the old days when we were all worried about herpes. Nothing like a pandemic to make one reprioritize. Sorry herpes! We overreacted. Check out Raj's work here https://rajsivaraman.wordpress.com Check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple !   Laugh, Read, Learn, and/or Support: Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with my longtime partner Libro.fm. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE  And! there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with our other partner The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare   All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Return guests Selin Malkoc & Joe Goodman are my favorite couple in science.  Every couple has disagreements, but these two marketing professors put their disagreements to the test for the good of us all.  In the past we have discussed topics like how to make the most of your vacation and when selfies do and don’t help wellbeing.  I check back in to talk about what their research says about quarantine life. Selin Selin Malkoc | Fisher College of Business  Joe Joseph Goodman | Fisher College of Business Laugh, Read, Learn, and Support The Show: Also, check out my new comedy web series Quarantine Couple ! Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with The Great Courses http://www.thegreatcoursesplus

Sleep researcher Zlatan Krizan shares his thoughts on how the quarantine is impacting people’s sleep.  What might happen if more people stop using alarm clocks?   Let’s learn about sleep's impact on the immune system and what we can do to improve both.   Dr. Križan is a Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University and an affiliate of the Center for Study of Violence. He directs the Sleep, Self, and Personality Laboratory (SSPeL) that examines how sleep and personality intersect with social behavior and self-regulation. Read, Learn, and Support The Show: All support on Patreon goes to my team: https://www.patreon.com/shanemauss  I have an overworked editor, assistant, and media person trying to help me crank out lots of extra episodes of infotainment during this crisis. Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for t

Shane finishes his conversation with Author, Podcaster, and Professor, Peter McGraw. They share open mic stories and strategies that apply to their experiences in the comedy world and the entertainment industry. What is "success?"  Buy Peter's book "Shtick To Business" here. Read, Learn, and Support The Show: All support on Patreon goes to my team: https://www.patreon.com/shanemauss  I have an overworked editor, assistant, and media person trying to help me crank out lots of extra episodes of infotainment during this crisis. Hunker down with an audiobook and support your local bookstore with Libro.fm. They're the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE   And there has never been a better time for lifelong learning with The Great Courses | The Great Courses Plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices