InShanely Curious

Mar 04 2025 7 ep. 106 mins 15

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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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Amphibians And Toad IVF At Fort Worth Zoo

Mar 04 2025 77 mins

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 humans and so much of earth’s life depend on. We’ll have two more Ft Worth Zoo epis

Evolution Of The Blue Man Group With Chris Wink

Feb 18 2025 75 mins

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 https://winkworld.com/ Speaking of neon, how about add a little glow to your perception? https://

Bonobo Day with Primatologist Rachna Reddy

Feb 11 2025 98 mins

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 anthropologist and primatologist at the University of Utah whose fieldwork in Uganda studying c

Night Science With Itai Yanai

Feb 04 2025 149 mins

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 its goals. It is there that it reveals itself, probing, groping, resting on intuition

Donkeys, Horses, And The Domestication Of Hooves With Sarah King

Jan 28 2025 103 mins

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 branches on the tree of life to figure out how donkeys even came to exist in the first place.

How Humans Survived Extinctions w/ Henry Gee (Senior Editor of Nature)

Jan 21 2025 121 mins

Human Evolution in two nuts' shells

The Feast of The Shane

Jan 11 2025 120 mins

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 the hidden underpinnings seeding the tree of life.