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InShanely Curious
by Shane Mauss
Comedian Shane Mauss goes out on a limb with scientists to explore the tree of life and how it has shaped and been shaped by our world
Episodes
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Training Elephants At Fort Worth Zoo
Christine Del Turco at The Fort Worth Zoo gave me a behind the scenes tour of the elephant facilities at the Fort Worth Zoo and then we sat down to chat about what it takes to get a multi-ton elephant to participate in its own health care. If you’ve ever had trouble giving your pet medicine, you...
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Medical Geography with Dr. Sadie Ryan
Dr. Sadie Ryan is professor of medical geography at the University of Florida, specializing in disease ecology, tropical conservation, human-wildlife interface, and geospatial models. https://geog.ufl.edu/faculty/ryan/ APPEX helps ensure that the vision of pandemic science is not simply about...
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Ants: Complexity & Cooperation With Noa Pinter-Wollman
This week comedian Shane Mauss stops by UCLA to learn all about ants! The Pinter-Wollman Lab studies how collective behavior emerges from individual variation and environmental pressures. We chat about how variation among ants shapes colony behavior, and how space influences social dynamics. This...
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APPEX - Interdisciplinary Science with Nina Fefferman
Dr. Nina Fefferman’s research uses applied mathematics to study epidemiology, evolutionary and behavioral ecology, and self-organizing systems like networks. Her lab tackles a wide range of topics, from disease dynamics in human and animal populations to cybersecurity and the evolution of social...
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Apocalypse Road Show With Athena Aktipis
Athena Aktipis is a cooperation theorist in the social psychology department of ASU. Her book “A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times” is a whole lot of fun packed into a pragmatic and optimistic examination of preparedness. Check out Athena's books…
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Elephant Herpes With Fort Worth Zoo
Sarah Cannizzo joins comedian Shane Mauss for a memorable conversation about elephants and their health. Learn, laugh and subscribe! Edited by https://loganraykeith.com/ ‘InShane Evolution’ Artwork by Randal Roberts Plant activated vibes: https://www.mypurplelady.com/ Sarah Cannizzo, MA, VMD,...
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Amphibians And Toad IVF At Fort Worth Zoo
This week comedian Shane Mauss takes a field trip to the Fort Worth Zoo to talk to Senior Curator of Ectotherms Diane Barber and Reproductive Biologist Allison Julien all about toads, explosive reproduction, biodiversity, and why amphibians are the canary in the coalmine for the freshwater that...
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Evolution Of The Blue Man Group With Chris Wink
Join comedian Shane Mauss as he talks with his friend Chris Wink about the early days of founding The Blue Man Group, getting inspired by vaudeville, and how his latest project Wink World combines art, science, philosophy, and play. Checkout Wink World in Vegas and Minneapolis...
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Bonobo Day with Primatologist Rachna Reddy
Valentine's Day is also International Bonobo Day! Bonobos have become known as the amorous, peace loving, hippies of the primate order. Has the story been a little overly simplified? This week, comedian Shane Mauss apes around with the hilarious and wonderful Rachna Reddy. Rachna is an...
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Night Science With Itai Yanai
Nobel Prize biologist François Jacob about night science, "Day science employs reasoning that meshes like gears, where each step follows from the previous one. It is effective. It advances. But it proceeds only because night science exists. It is in the dark of night that science comes closest to...
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Donkeys, Horses, And The Domestication Of Hooves With Sarah King
For thousands of years donkeys were an integral part of human life. Modern life has taken most of the burden off burros backs but what does the future hold for our equine companions? Shane takes a deep dive into ungulate evolution and contemplates how hooves ambled their way along various…
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How Humans Survived Extinctions w/ Henry Gee (Senior Editor of Nature)
In his latest book, The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, British paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and wry wordsmith Henry Gee examines humanity’s precarious journey on the tree of life. For millions of years, small groups of scrappy, upright apes have lived “one meal away from...
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The Feast of The Shane
Shane Mauss shares the origin story of his interest in life’s origin story. A hobby of watching nature documentaries turned into a full-blown science obsession that sent Shane’s comedy career careening off the traditional stand-up path and onto a unique journey of getting to use humor to explore...
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Comedian Shane Mauss goes out on a limb with scientists to explore the tree of life and how it has shaped and been shaped by our world
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InShanely Curious is created and hosted by Shane Mauss.
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