TechNation Radio Podcast
Episodes
Episode 14-42 Tech Nation: Big Data – What Stays in Vegas …
23 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks withADAM TANNER, a fellow at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and the author of “Wh...
Episode 14-41 Tech Nation: The Neuroscience of Trauma …
15 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with DR. BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Boston, and a profes...
Episode 14-40 Tech Nation: who we are (when we think no one's looking) …
08 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Tech Nation, what can we learn about being human from dating websites. Moira speaks with CHRISTIAN RUDDER, the president of OkCupid w...
Episode 14-39 Tech Nation: The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci …
01 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
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, the...
Episode 14-38 Tech Nation: The Language of Food …
24 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professor DAN JURAFSKY tells us about “The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu.” ...
Episode 14-37 Tech Nation: The End of Absence …
17 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist MICHAEL HARRIS about how he opted out of digital technology for a month – he tells us it’...
Episode 14-36 Tech Nation: The Neuroscience of the Organized Mind …
11 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with McGill professor and behavioral neuroscientist DANIEL LEVITIN about “The Organized Mind: Thinking St...
Episode 14-35 Tech Nation: High Tech Chasms and 23andMe …
02 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with GEOFF MOORE about what happens to a hot tech companies that get a lot of interest early … and then n...
Episode 14-34 Tech Nation: The Island of Knowledge …
02 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dartmouth professor MARCELLO GLEISER about his latest book, The Island of Knowledge. He looks at all o...
Episode 14-33 Tech Nation: The Alimentary Canal is not on Google Maps …
02 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Mary Roach about her book Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. Clue: The alimentary canal is nowh...
Episode 14-18 Tech Nation: Digitizing a Nation- welcome to the new millennium
25 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with FRANCIS MAUDE, the UK's Minister for the Cabinet Office, about digital government, it's called "digital...
Episode 14-19 Tech Nation: Nobel Prizes Explained
25 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with a panel of professors from the University of San Francisco and it's "Nobel Prizes Explained."
Episode 14-21 Tech Nation: Mass Extinction?
25 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist ANNALEE NEWITZ looks at the past, present and possible future of mass extinctions. Then on Bi...
Episode 14-22 Tech Nation: Being a Scientist can be Dangerous
25 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Geneticist SEAN CARROLL about Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from...
Episode 14-23 Tech Nation: Sneaking into Math Class
21 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor EDWARD FRENKEL about sneaking into math classes at Moscow University and how math...
Episode 14-24 Tech Nation: Guns, Germs and Next Door Neighbours
21 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JARED DIAMOND about The World Until Yesterday: What We Can Learn from Traditional SocietiesThen on BioTe...
Episode 14-25 Tech Nation: Guns, Germs and Next Door Neighbors
21 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Aneesh Chopra, the first Chief Technology Officer for the United States. He's here today with Innovative...
Episode 14-26 Tech Nation: Big Data changes Education
21 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with KENNETH CUKIER, the Data Editor at The Economist. He tells us about Learning with Big Data and The Futur...
Episode 14-28 Tech Nation: Disruptive Technology and Disruptive Science
20 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Regis Kelly from the University of California in San Francisco for Quantitative Biosciences, which nutur...
Episode 14-29 Tech Nation: Big Data and Concussion
19 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the National Football League turns to science to work on head trauma. I speak with three scientists coll...
Episode 14-30 Tech Nation: Different Medicines for Different DNA Worldwid
19 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Rogerio Ribeiro from global pharmaceutical firm GSK. He'll tell us and how genetics and medical needs di...
Episode 14-31 Tech Nation: Privacy Ninja's ???
19 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the Chief Privacy Officer at McAfee, and her book "The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto". Then on BioTech Na...
Episode 14-32 Tech Nation: Everyday Creativity Lessons from Pixar
19 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ED CATMULL, the President of Pixar Animation. He's talking about creativity, but also creativity when y...
Episode 51: 12/31/2013 Tech Nation: The Riddle of the Labyrinth
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withNew York Times journalist Margalit Fox about TheRiddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient C...
Episode 49: 12/24/2013 Tech Nation: Self-publishing in the age of social media
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withGUY KAWASAKI about how authors today must also be Publishers andEntrepreneurs.Then on BioTech Nation, we ...
Episode 46: Tech Nation- 17-12-2013 NFL- The League of Denial
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We speak to Mark Fainaru-Wada, author of "League of Denial"- The NFL, Concussions and the battle for truth.On BioTech Nation Duchenne muscular dystrop...
Episode 45: 12/10/2013 Tech Nation: Steve Jobs
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withWALTER ISAACSON, with his biography of Steve Jobs, and on BioTech Nation, new approaches to cancer, placi...
Episode 44: 12/3/2013 Tech Nation: The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withFRITJOF CAPRA. He spent 10 years studying the original notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci and yes, there's ge...
Episode 43: 11/26/2013 Tech Nation: Nobel Prizes Explained
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
n this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withA panel of professors from the University of San Francisco, it's "Nobel Prizes Explained."
Episode 43: 11/12/2013 Tech Nation: We're Smarter That We Think
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withCLIVE THOMPSON about Smarter That You Think: How Technology isChanging Our Minds for the Better.And on Bi...
Episode 42: 11/04/2013 Tech Nation: Po Bronson Top Dog in the science of winning and losing
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withPO BRONSON about his book Top Dog- The Science of Winning and Losing.Then on BioTech Nation, something fo...
Episode 42: 10/29/2013 Tech Nation: Social Media: The First 2,000 Years
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withThe Economist's Digital Editor, TOM STANDAGE, about the centuries-old tradition of Social Media.Then on B...
Episode 42: 10/22/2013 Tech Nation: Love and Math
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withUC Berkeley professor EDWARD FRENKEL about sneaking into mathclasses at Moscow University and how mathema...
Episode 40 10/08/2013 Tech Nation: "Brave Genius"
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withGeneticist SEAN CARROLL about Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from ...
Episode 39: 10/01/2013 Tech Nation: A Beautiful new bridge
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withDONALD McDONALD, the architect of the new East span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.Then on BioTe...
Episode 38: 09/24/2013 Tech Nation: Robert Oppenheimer
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation,we look at a time in American life when a scientist and science wereforefront in the minds of the public. We talk about the...
Episode 37: 09/17/2013 Tech Nation: Technology and Distraction
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withFuturist ALEX PANG about The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information you need and the communicatio...
Episode 36: 09/10/2013 Tech Nation: Can Austerity Kill? Science thinks so
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withStanford's Dr. Sanjay Basu about how cutting some social programs when times are bad hurts more than we ...
Episode 35: 09/3/2013 Tech Nation: Status from the Frontlines of the War on Cancer
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withFortune contributing editor CLIFTON LEAF and a look at the 40 year old war on cancer.And on BioTech Nati...
Episode 34: 08/27/2013 Tech Nation: Sports genes?
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withSports Illustrated's DAVID EPSTEIN , about "The SportsGene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic...
Episode 33: 08/13/2013 Tech Nation: Denial, more than just a river in Egypt
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withDR. AJIT VARKI talks about Denial answering thequestion, why did humans develop such complex mental abil...
Episode 32: 08/06/2013 Tech Nation: The New Frontier of Egg Freezing
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withSARA ELIZABETH RICHARDS about Motherhood Rescheduled, womenactually freezing their own eggs.Then on BioTe...
Episode 31 07/30/2013 Tech Nation: BIG Data
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withGUNNAR CARLSSON, a professor of mathematics at Stanford Universityand co-founder of Ayasdi about Big Data...
Episode 30: 07/23/2013 Tech Nation: Brilliant Blunders
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withMARIO LIVIO about Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein and theirColossal Mistakes.Then on BioTech...
Episode 29: 07/16/2013 Tech Nation broadcasts from the International Biotechnology Conference, BIO 2013 in Chicago
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation,Tech Nation broadcasts from the international biotechnologyconference; BIO 2013 in Chicago. How is the world of biotechnolo...
Episode 28: 07/9/2013 Tech Nation: Ninja Innovation
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withGARY SHAPIRO, President of the Consumer Electronics Association.He talks about ninja innovationî in the ...
Episode 27: 07/2/2013 Tech Nation: The Attacking Ocean
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withDR. BRIAN FAGAN the rising Ocean and What the Earth looked like duringthe Ice Age, as opposed to today a...
Episode 26: 06/25/2013 Tech Nation: Decrypting the Labyrinth
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withNew York Times journalist Margalit Fox about TheRiddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient C...
Episode 26: 06/18/2013 Tech Nation: Your Brain is Amazing and Intuition Pumps
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withDANIEL DENNETT about tools to help us improve our thinking, warningsignals when someone is introducing f...
Episode 25: 06/11/2013: Tech Nation: Who Owns Your Future ?
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withComputer scientist and musician, JARON LANIER, about thetechnological aspects of Who Owns the Future?îT...
Episode 24: 06/11/2013: Tech Nation: Who Owns Your Future ?
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withComputer scientist and musician, JARON LANIER, about thetechnological aspects of ìWho Owns the Future?T...
Episode 22: 06/4/2013 Tech Nation: Re-Genesis ???
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withHarvard Medical School Genetics professor GEORGE CHURCH about howSynthetic Biology may reinvent every li...
Episode 22: 06/4/2013 Tech Nation: Our good sides
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withHarvard psychology professor professor Steven Pinker. He tells us about the better angles of our nature....
Episode 21 05/21/2013 Tech Nation: Mass Extinction?
03 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withJournalist ANNALEE NEWITZ who looks at the past, present and possiblefuture of mass extinctions.Then on B...
Episode 20: Tech Nation-Bell Labs "The Idea Factory"
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to NY Times magazine's Jon Gertner. He's written "The Idea Factory"- Bell Labs and the grand age of American innovation.On BioTech Nation we t...
Episode 19 :05/07/2013 : Tech Nation-Contagious
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withWhartonis JONAH BERGER. He talks about Contagious - Why Things CatchOn.Then on BioTech Nation- it's medic...
Episode 18 04/30/2013: Tech Nation- Khan Academy new visions for YouTube
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withSALMAN KHAN, the founder of Khan Academy, creator of a thousandYouTube videos - all on calculus.Then on B...
Episode 17: 04/23/2013: Tech Nation- Good Old-Fashioned Phone Hackers
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withPhil Lapsley about the teenagers who hacked the phone company including Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.Then...
Episode 16: 04/16/2013 : Tech Nation- WW-II Japanese Super-Sub
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withJohn Geoghegan , whom you may know from his PBSdocumentary Japanese Supersub, Japanese surprise underwate...
Episode 15: 04/09/2013 : Tech Nation-We talk to Phil Stutz and Barry Michels about their book "The Tools".
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withPsychiatrist PHIL STUTZ and Psychotherapist BARRY MICHELS aboutseveral simpletools proven effective in de...
Episode 14: 04/01/2013 : Tech Nation-MAHZARIN BANAJI Professor, Harvard University Author,Blind Spot and Hidden Biases of Good People
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withHarvard professor MAHZARIN BANAJI (pronounced ìMAH-ZAH-REEN BAH-NAH-JEEî) on the set of tests which ca...
Episode 13 : 03/26/2013: Tech Nation-DOUG RUSHKOFF Host, PBS Frontline documentary, Digital Nation Author, Present Shock and When Everything Happens Now
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withPBS Frontline Host DOUG RUSHKOFF, the author of Present Shock and WhenEverything Happens Now.Then on BioT...
Episode 12: 03/19/2013 : Tech Nation - VIKTOR MAYER-SCHONBERGER BIG DATA A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withOxford University professor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & KennethCukier (pronounced ìCook-eee-ayeî) ab...
Episode 11: 03/12/2013 : Tech Nation- Matt Richtel On The Cloud
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withNew York Times tech journalist MATT RICHTEL on his fictional sci-tech thriller: The Cloud.Then on BioTech...
Episode 14-27 Tech Nation: David Montgomery on The Rocks Don't Lie
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withUniversity of Washington professor David Montgomery on thebeginnings of geology, and the centuries-old se...
Episode 9 02/26/2013 : Tech Nation- Po Bronson: A Top Dog in the science of winning and losing
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withPO BRONSON about his book Top Dog : The Science of Winning andLosing.Then on BioTech Nation, something fo...
Episode 8 02/19/2013 Tech Nation: Gavin Newsom a Citizenville in a digital government?
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withFormer San Francisco mayor and California Lieutenant Governor GAVINNEWSOM on reinventing government in th...
Episode 7: 02/12/2013 Tech Nation: Francis Collins ñ National Institute of Health
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withFRANCIS COLLINS, the Director of the National Institutes of Health,speaking about the 125-year-old origi...
Episode 6: 02/05/2013 Tech Nation: New lessons from old societies
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
DANIEL PINK about how we all sell even if don't know it.Then on BioTech Nation, a drug thatís possibly better than statins,and on BioIssue of the We...
Episode 13-05 01/29/2013 : Tech Nation: New lessons from old societies
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with: JARED DIAMOND Pulitzer Prize-winning AuthorGuns, Germs and Steel andThe World Until Yesterday:...
Episode 13-04: 01/22/2013 Tech Nation: The Human Face of BIG DATA
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with:RICK SMOLANPhotojournalist and Author, The Human Face of BIG DATAThen on BioTech Nation: D...
Episode 13-03: 01/15/2013 : Tech Nation: Arithmetic in the 16th Century
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with:KEITH DEVLINNPR’s Math GuyAuthor, “The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic revolution”...
Episode 13-02: 01/08/2013 Tech Nation: Need, Speed and Greed
22 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with:VIJAY VAITHESWARANChina Business & Finance Editor, The EconomistAuthor, “Need, Speed and ...
Episode 13-01: 01/01/2013 Tech Nation: The New Age of Personalized Medicine
08 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with:DR. ERIC TOPOLDirector, Scripps Translational Science InstituteAuthor, “The Creative Destruct...