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Here We Are

Curiosity + Memory

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Shane continues his discussion with Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University at UC Davis, Charan Ranganath. How does curiosity, prediction error, anxiety, and even mania relate to memory. Charities Of The Week - STEAC http://www.steac.org/programs.phpThe Pantry - https://asucd.ucdavis.edu/the-pantry/ https://Libro.fm is 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. Outro Music by Here Knows Whenhttp://hereknowswhen.bandcamp.com/album/lost-moon-ep Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the Here We Are Podcast Part 2 episode. Stop right now if you haven't listened to Part 1. It is real good. So good in fact and I think you agree if you listen to it right I

0:15.2

certainly loved the conversation so much that I came back the following day

0:20.6

and had this talk that you're about to hear so I think you're really going to

0:26.5

like it even if you like it as fraction as much as I did. What a terrific conversation. Guys, I got Cincinnati coming up June 1st for stand-up science and as well as in toward the end of June Cedar Falls, Des Moines, Iowa,

0:46.9

then Wichita, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Omaha, and Kansas City, Missouri, Missouri, by the way.

0:55.0

All in July, maybe doing a couple other Midwest things.

1:00.1

Summer can be brutal for comedy,

1:02.1

so I don't want to risk doing too many shows and end up

1:06.7

Losing money on them or something, but I don't know it might be a good time for stand-up science

1:12.8

We'll find out this will be a good time for stand-up science. We'll find out this will be a good sample.

1:15.8

So guys, I want to thank you so much because I have

1:20.9

been getting emails from many of you for venue suggestions for stand-up science.

1:28.6

As I said, I've been looking for around 150 seat venues

1:33.1

anywhere in the country.

1:34.2

I'm gonna be, the plan is, get a van,

1:38.0

travel around, doing stand-up science everywhere.

1:41.4

I am super excited about the idea. It's going to take a lot of

1:45.8

work and one of the work, one of the things that is difficult is finding good

1:50.0

venues. I've things I get a hold of local comics everywhere and and stuff like that and I have

1:57.4

established a lot of relationships in the past but there's a lot of cities I've never been to that have good colleges and everywhere else.

2:07.1

Really, as long as there's a college that I can get scientists from, it doesn't necessarily even need to be the biggest college in the world or anything like that

2:15.7

and it's not too crazy small of a city I mean I did

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