(Pandemic Edition) Zombie Apocalypse Medicine

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Return guest Athena Aktipis is an author, professor and podcaster. She is also the chair of the (wait for it...) Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting (ZAMM) an interdisciplinary conference where art, science and medicine come together with the aim of solving complex issues. Yup. You read that right. Sure she does a bunch of more sciencey sounding things too, but who more fitting at a time like this than a cancer researching badass with a delightful science podcast about apocalypse scenarios? Check out all the amazing things she does. Main site: http://www.athenaaktipis.org Book: www.cheatingcell.com Pod: www.zombified.org, @ZombifiedPod Conference: www.zombiemed.org, @ZombieMedEd Satirical News Platform: www.reversepsychologytoday.com, @psychnewstoday Human Generosity Project: www.humangenerosity.com @generousnature Personal twitter: @AthenaAktipis Lab twitter: @AktipisLab Read, Learn, and Support The Show 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sky Pines and Yeah.
0:03.0	Are we? Yes. Where are we here?
0:06.0	Why are we here? Not entirely clear.
0:09.0	We are misfits, thrust into existence by random chance with no hints at all
0:15.0	As to how we're supposed to make sense of it all
0:19.0	It's immensely bizarre
0:20.0	Here we are.
0:24.0	So I have everybody a very special guest for you.
0:28.0	Welcome to the Here We Are Podcast, by the way,
0:31.0	special pandemic addition today I'm going to be talking with
0:36.3	Athena Ectipus and am I saying that correct I always get so intimidated by your
0:41.6	name you're totally saying it right.
0:43.7	Okay, terrific.
0:45.0	It's who I've had on the show before.
0:47.4	She's the assistant professor of psychology
0:50.0	at Arizona State University,
0:52.2	director of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initiative at ASU.
0:59.0	And she has a brand new book which just came out today,
1:04.6	actually I guess maybe yesterday,
1:06.2	by the time this is released,
1:09.6	called The Cheating Cell.
1:12.0	How Evolution helps us understand and treat cancer. Not only that, but this
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