TechNation Radio hosted by Dr Moira Gunn
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New York Times journalist Margalit Fox about The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. Then on BioTech Nation Britain's National Health Service makes a commitment to using a patientís whole genome in their healthcare.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GUY KAWASAKI about how authors today must also be Publishers and Entrepreneurs. Then on BioTech Nation, we talk about things we eat all the time that aren't organic. PETER WONG from TruTag Technologies tells us how they can be used to foil pharmaceutical counterfeiting.
We speak to Mark Fainaru-Wada, author of "League of Denial"- The NFL, Concussions and the battle for truth. On BioTech Nation Duchenne muscular dystrophy and DED taks the science of "beam me up Scotty" with our own DNA.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with WALTER ISAACSON, with his biography of Steve Jobs, and on BioTech Nation, new approaches to cancer, placing human DNA in fruitflies to study Alzheimer's and Parkinsons, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, a salute to a recently-passed Nobel Laureate.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with FRITJOF CAPRA. He spent 10 years studying the original notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci and yes, there's genius there. Then on BioTech Nation, we talk about a new view of addiction and new developments for all addictions.
n this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with A panel of professors from the University of San Francisco, it's "Nobel Prizes Explained."
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CLIVE THOMPSON about Smarter That You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better. And on BioTech Nation, the new vaccines and how we get them to everyone young, old, rich and poor, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, the top innovations of 2013 from the Cleveland Clinic.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with PO BRONSON about his book Top Dog- The Science of Winning and Losing. Then on BioTech Nation, something for the 27 million Americans who suffer from osteoarthritis and on BioIssue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan see new bioethical challenges for professional sports.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with The Economist's Digital Editor, TOM STANDAGE, about the centuries- old tradition of Social Media. Then on BioTech Nation, on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's all about "rare science."
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor EDWARD FRENKEL about sneaking into math classes at Moscow University and how mathematics is everywhere in our lives. Then on BioTech Nation, DR. DAVID MARTIN from AvidBiotics talks about the CDC's new report on antibiotic resistance.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Geneticist SEAN CARROLL about Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize. Then on BioTech Nation, how decoding the human genome affects the durgs of our future, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's Google vs. Death.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DONALD McDONALD, the architect of the new East span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Then on BioTech Nation, a new global healthcare report form Deloitte, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, we look at the impact of reducing federal funds on new medical research.
On this week's Tech Nation, we look at a time in American life when a scientist and science were forefront in the minds of the public. We talk about the atomic bomb, the media embrace of Robert Oppenheimer, and national interests in the post-World War II Cold War. Then on BioTech Nation, an Australian firm takes antibodies from sharks to create new medications. And the latest report on the environmental impact of biotechnology on global agriculture.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Futurist ALEX PANG about The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information you need and the communication you want without enraging your family, annoying your colleagues and destroying your soul. Then on BioTech Nation, we hear from ALEX KARLE, the COO of The Evaluate Group in London. He tells us about their global report on orphan drugs - therapeutics for diseases and conditions that affect mere thousands of humans, but may hold the key to treatmen...
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford's Dr. Sanjay Basu about how cutting some social programs when times are bad hurts more than we realise, it's actually there in the economics data. Then on BioTech Nation, we hear about new hope in fighting hospital acquired infections and on BioIssue of the Week, David gets his own stem cell line.
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Fortune contributing editor CLIFTON LEAF and a look at the 40 year old war on cancer. And on BioTech Nation, DR. BEN CHEN, the Executive Chairman of Immune Targeting Systems in London tells us why your T cells have great potential for fighting challenges from the flu to cancer.
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Sports Illustrated's DAVID EPSTEIN , about "The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance." Then on Biotech Nation, how decades of tissue samples for Lupus are more important than ever. And on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, answers the quetsion: "If somebody puts my DNA out there online can somebody figure out it's me?"
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. AJIT VARKI talks about Denial answering the question, why did humans develop such complex mental abilities and other species did not? Than on BioTech Nation, a biotech company which started on a cocktail napkin and addressing the challenge of getting everyone in the world vaccinated quickly and cheaply.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with SARA ELIZABETH RICHARDS about Motherhood Rescheduled, women actually freezing their own eggs. Then on BioTech Nation, protecting our annual flu shots from sometimes missing a strain, and on BioIssue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan tells us all about the micro biome, a hundred trillion critters in each of us.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GUNNAR CARLSSON, a professor of mathematics at Stanford University and co-founder of Ayasdi about Big Data. Then on BioTech Nation, we hear from DR. JOHN BEADLE, the CEO of Psioxus Therapeutics in Oxford, England. They're working on oncolytic viruses , viruses which invade and kill cancer cells, while ignoring all others.
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MARIO LIVIO about Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein and their Colossal Mistakes. Then on BioTech Nation, all that's meaningful about gene patents, and the latest Supreme Court decision.
On this week's Tech Nation, Tech Nation broadcasts from the international biotechnology conference; BIO 2013 in Chicago. How is the world of biotechnology changing? And how will this affect healthcare? These and other topics are all covered in this full-hour show.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GARY SHAPIRO, President of the Consumer Electronics Association. He talks about ninja innovationî in the today's tsunami of technology. Then on BioTech Nation, a new way to control our cholesterol based on the DNA of very low cholesterol human beings. And on BioIssue of the Week a new poll measuring our understanding of science.
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. BRIAN FAGAN the rising Ocean and What the Earth looked like during the Ice Age, as opposed to today and what will it look like in the years to come Then on BioTech Nation, with 90 million smokers and former smokers in the US, a DNA diagnostic for the number one cancer, lung cancer.
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New York Times journalist Margalit Fox about The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. Then on BioTech Nation Britain's National Health Service makes a commitment to using a patients whole genome in their healthcare.
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DANIEL DENNETT about tools to help us improve our thinking, warning signals when someone is introducing false logic, and other challenges in human communication. Then on BioTech Nation Ö we talk about prostate cancer and the efforts of BN-Immunotherapeutics to address this challenge.
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Computer scientist and musician, JARON LANIER, about the technological aspects of Who Owns the Future?î Then on BioTech Nation, we talk about Duschene Muscular Dystrophe, and an approach which may offer real hope.
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Computer scientist and musician, JARON LANIER, about the technological aspects of ìWho Owns the Future? Then on BioTech Nation, we talk about Duschene Muscular Dystrophe, and an approach which may offer real hope.
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard Medical School Genetics professor GEORGE CHURCH about how Synthetic Biology may reinvent every living thing. Then on BioTech Nation, what we can learn if we look at everyoneís medical records ñ all together.
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard psychology professor professor Steven Pinker. He tells us about the better angles of our nature. Why violence has declined. Then on BioTech Nation, how we are fighting Dengue fever and how nano technology is being used in treating lung cancer.
