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Here We Are

Viruses + The Apocalypse

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Today I speak with returning guest, Athena Aktipis, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University and co-Director of The Human Generosity Project. We talk about how viruses can hijack behavior, the diversity of cancers, and what a real apocalypse could look like.  http://www.athenaaktipis.org/ Listen to Athena's podcast :https://www.zombified.org/ Read Athena's new book: https://amzn.to/3yXv8F4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's not so much the apocalypse as it is like the post apocalypse, right?

0:04.4

Because it's like if the world is going to end, then it's done, right?

0:08.0

And like, it doesn't really matter so much your preps.

0:12.8

But if it's a more slow apocalypse or a like minor one in that, you know,

0:20.9

most people don't die or you're one of the people who are left,

0:24.9

then it matters a little more like what you do now, right?

0:29.2

Are we yes, where are we here?

0:32.2

Why are we here not entirely clear?

0:35.5

We are misfits thrust into existence

0:38.4

by random chance with no hints at all

0:41.6

as to how we're supposed to make sense of it all.

0:44.7

It's immensely bizarre.

0:46.8

Here we are.

0:49.9

Hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast today.

0:53.0

Return guest, Athena,

0:54.8

activist is joining the show and she is Associate Professor

0:58.4

at the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University

1:02.8

and she is also the co-director of the Human Generosity Project.

1:08.3

I believe the last couple times she's been on, we've been chatting about cancer.

1:12.8

She has a wonderful book which we're going to do a whole episode about in the future

1:18.7

but we because we've touched on some of her cancer research in the past.

1:23.0

The book is called The Cheating Cell,

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