TechNation Radio Podcast

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Sports ecology professor and author Dr. Madeleine Orr, about her book, “Warming Up… How Climate Change is Changing Sport”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the Medical Innovation Gap, which is the time from innovation until we actually can use it in everyday practice. And Dr. John Scarlett, the President and CEO of Geron, tells us about their breakthrough drug candidate, which offers hope for treating bone marrow failure, previously only manageable through regular blood transfusions

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Ed Humes, talks about his book, “Total Garbage… How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World.” Then, Dr. Steve Quake, Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative tells us about their ambitious goal to address all human diseases within the next century.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Neil Kassell, the founder and chair of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, about what focused ultrasound is and the different ways in which it is being used. Then, Dr. Nicholas Dirks, the President and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, talks about such topics as the International Science Reserve and how we might take on a new perspective regarding Artificial Intelligence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a Professor at the Pennsylvania School of Medicine and President of Every Cure, talks about his efforts to unlock the hidden potential of existing drugs to save his own life and others. Then, NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce talks about her take on being a science journalist and about her book, “Transient and Strange… Notes on the Science of Life”.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Doctors Andy Norman and Lee McIntyre from the Mental Immunity Project about strengthening your mind’s immunity to misinformation. Then, regular Tech Nation contributor Dr. Alex Pang talks about the difference between sleep and rest – and how that can make a big difference in our lives.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professors, Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao, talk about their book, “The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder.” Then, is your personal technology doing more than you bargained for? Duke University Professor Nita Farahany talks about “The Battle for Your Brain … Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.”

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist and CEO of Global Press, Christi Hegranes, talks about her vision of what it really means to have a global press and her book, “Byline: How Local Journalists Can Improve the Global News Industry and Change the World.” Then, Alex Pang, a regular contributor for Tech Nation and author of, ”Rest: Why You Get More Work Done, When You Work Less” tells us how a Four-Day Work Week can work, and Dr. Jim Brown, CEO of DURECT, talks about their clinical trials for Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Science Journalist Ben Goldfarb about his book, “Crossing: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of our Planet.” Then, Dave Pacitti, President of Siemens Healthineers, sets out to solve problems greater than simply supplying the best technology.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Robert Ang, the President & CEO of Vor Biopharma, about its approach to Acute Myeloid Leukemia, also known as AML. Then, Dr. Nik Sopko, the chief scientific officer of PolarityTE, talked about their design for wound healing. Their first treatment candidate is diabetic foot ulcers, and Dr. Eric Vivier from Innate Pharma in Marseilles tells us about the next wave of immunotherapy treatments – harnessing Natural Killer cells.