Here We Are

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://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 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 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

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 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 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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'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

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.com/hereweare All support on Patreon goes to my team: Shane Mauss is creating Here We Are Podcast and live shows | Patreon  I have an overworked editor, assistant, and media person trying to help me crank out lots of extra episodes of infotainment during this crisis. Usually, they are paid by my live touring income. Listener support is needed to not only keep this going, but to improve volume and quality of this new way of producing content. Thanks for your consideration! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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

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