TechNation Radio Podcast

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Paul Leonardi from UC Santa Barbara about “Digital Exhaustion: Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life”. Then a promising new approach to flu shots! Dr. Jeff Stein from Cidara Therapeutics describes their efforts, now fast-tracked by the FDA.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MIT’s Alan Lightman talks about who scientists are in “The Shape of Wonder”, and Rob Armstrong from Artax Biopharma focuses on treating the untreatable – those 40% of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients who don't respond to current drugs. Then Dr Daniel Kraft tells us that we’re moving from Dr. Google to Dr. ChatGPT.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Martin Borch Jensen and Dr. Francisco LePort from Gordian Biotechnology, who are working on diseases of aging before they even appear. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, explains why mobility is the new vital sign. And Erica Dhawan, Author of Digital Body Language, tells us how to navigate the misinterpretations of digital communication.

Princeton University Computer Science Professor Dr. Arvind Narayanan speaks with Moira about his book: “AI Snake Oil … What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference”. Then, Dr. Avak Kahvejian, Founding CEO of Cellarity, joins Moira to explain how comparing healthy and diseased cells, along with a better understanding of medications, could help treat disease at its source. 

Cuts to NIH innovation research grants? Stepping back from recommending vaccines? Paul Hastings, the former chair of BIO, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and CEO of Nkarta, provides insights from the individual to the industry, writ large. Then Bentley University professor Noah Giansiracusa brings us "Robin Hood Math ... Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life".

On this week’s Tech Nation, every UC Berkeley Business and Entrepreneurship Professor, Dr. Toby Stuart, has studied the "Anointed" – those people who seem to get all the "good stuff". You'll learn how to recognise it. His book is “Anointed … The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most World

On this week’s Tech Nation, Dan Wang from Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab sees the similarities between China and the US in his book: “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future”, and finally, the development of a simple wearable to gauge your true hydration levels. Brisbane, Australia's Dr. Mark Kendall from WearOptimo tells us how it works.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Frontline Stories from Ukraine’s International Legion with Military Historian Dr. Shannon Monaghan, for Type I diabetics, the New England Journal of Medicine publishes early success with Sana Biotechnology's engineered insulin-producing cells without immunosuppressant drugs, and Daniel Kraft reports in on the BioTech Nation session from NextMed Health 2025.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Frontline Stories from Ukraine’s International Legion with Military Historian Dr. Shannon Monaghan, for Type I diabetics, the New England Journal of Medicine publishes early success with Sana Biotechnology's engineered insulin-producing cells without immunosuppressant drugs, and Daniel Kraft reports in on the BioTech Nation session from NextMed Health 2025.

On this week’s Tech Nation, in honour of his recent passing, we revisit Tech Nation's 1994 interview with Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell. Lovell recounts the intense decisions made aboard Apollo 13 after the explosion, the resourcefulness of the crew and ground control, and what it took to return safely to Earth.