TechNation Radio Podcast

Dr Moira Gunn

TechNation Radio hosted by Dr Moira Gunn

  • 59 minutes
    Episode 24-17 Climate Change and Our Brain


    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Environmental journalist Clayton Page Aldern about his book, “The Weight of Nature … How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains”. Then, Dr. Sean Bohen, President & CEO of Olema Oncology, talks about what we’ve learned about the 70% of breast cancers, called ER+/HER2- and how it relates to prostate cancer.

    25 April 2024, 11:28 am
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    Episiode 24-16 Amazon or Walmart - who's got the tech?

    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with journalist Jason Del Rey about Amazon and Walmart - how they are different and their designs on your attention. His book is “Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets”.
    Then, in biotech, breakthrough science changes the name of the game on how to make a medicine. Dr. Sanjay Shukla, the President and CEO of ATyr Pharma, takes this unprecedented approach and ATyr’s first drug candidate, which treats pulmonary sarcoidosis.

    25 April 2024, 11:24 am
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    Episode 24-15 A More Beautiful Question

    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Warren Berger, author of  “A More Beautiful Question … The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas” now in its tenth anniversary re-release and update. Then, Dr. Peter DeMuth, Chief Scientific Officer at Elicio Therapeutics, tells us about how a treatment can turn into a vaccine and potentially provide long-lasting protection against cancer.

    11 April 2024, 2:34 pm
  • 59 minutes
    Episode 24-14 Safe Online Standards

    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Dan Reidenberg (Rye-den-berg), Project Director for Safe Online Standards at the Mental Health Coalition talks about what young people are doing online and how to keep them safe. Then, Dr. Chris Pirie, the Co-Founder and COO of HDTBio tells us what it takes to build a cancer vaccine.

    4 April 2024, 9:34 am
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    Episode 24-13 Experiential Intelligence?

    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Soren Kaplan talks about taking a look at your life experience to gain insight and action into your personal and business life. His book is “Experiential Intelligence: Harness the Power of Experience for Personal and Business Breakthroughs.” Then to a place in Alaska where no human has gone, much less conquered. Climber and rescuer Michael Wejchert talks about “Hidden Mountains … Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong.”

    28 March 2024, 9:20 pm
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    Episode 24-12 Fighting Inflammation

    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. David Bearss, President and CEO of Halia (Hah-lee-ah) Therapeutics, about their groundbreaking work, both in inflammation and in another drug to potentially resist Alzheimer’s.  Then, Melissa Sevigny (Sev-inn-nee), Science Journalist and Author of “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon”.

    20 March 2024, 9:10 am
  • 59 minutes
    Episode 24-11 How Computers Learned to Write

    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
    With all of these AI chatbots around, how did computers learn to write? Columbia professor Dennis Yi Tenen talks about his book, “Literary Theory for Robots … How Computers Learned to Write”.  Then, regular contributor and futurist, Alex Pang gives us insights on humans and tech, and why we are still using pen and paper. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about food as medicine and what today's tech can tell us about our bodies and the food we eat.

    15 March 2024, 10:19 pm
  • 59 minutes
    Episode 24-10 Remembering the people of Love Canal

    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist and NPR contributor Keith O’Brien about his book, “Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe”. From congressional aides to housewives to defiant scientists – we receive the benefits of the challenge of Love Canal. Then, new science leads to understanding natural repair mechanisms in the brain. Dr. Mark Litton is the President and CEO of Athira Pharma. He discusses their efforts in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s dementia.

    8 March 2024, 3:00 pm
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    Episode 24-09 Healing from Narcissistic People

    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
    Clinical Psychologist and Author Dr. Ramani Durvasula about how to heal from Narcissists in your life and her book, “It’s Not You … Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People”. Then, regular contributor and author of “Rest: Why You Get More Work Done, When You Work Less.” Dr. Alex Pang, talks about getting employers to buy into a four-day work week - it may be easier than you think.

    29 February 2024, 6:57 pm
  • 59 minutes
    Episode 24-08 Excellent Advice for Living

    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with founding Executive Editor at Wired magazine Kevin Kelly is here with “Excellent Advice for Living … Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier.” Then, Dr. Lishan Aklo, CEO of  Lucid Diagnostics, tells us about the path from heartburn to esophageal cancer, and about their two-minute diagnostic test which can detect precancerous cells.

    22 February 2024, 10:30 pm
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    Episode 24-07 In the Mouth of the Wolf

    On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Katherine Corcoran, the former Associate Press Bureau Chief for Mexico, who talks about “In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press”. She talks about the danger of being a journalist in Mexico and one woman who paid the ultimate price. And following news of one biotech firm trying to bring back the dodo bird, we hear from Joe Hernandez from Blue Water Vaccines. His quest to develop a universal flu vaccine led him face-to-face – so to speak - with the Oxford dodo.

    16 February 2024, 10:38 pm
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