TechNation Radio Podcast

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 where he leads data analytics. He’s written DATACLYSM: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking).Then on BioTech Nation, quickly detecting diseases with small mobile devices. We talk to DR. ANITA GOEL, the CEO of NanoBioSym and winner of the 2013 Nokia Sensing X-Prize, talks about their device: GeneRadar. And RICHARD POPS, the CEO of Alkermes. He tells us how our typical thinking of one drug – one disease may not always be the case.

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 with STEPHEN HURST, the Chairman and CEO of Savant HWP about a new view of addiction – and new developments for all addictions.

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.” Over the centuries and around the globe, the food we eat today started their journeys long ago and far away.Then on BioTech Nation, LEE JONES, the CEO of Rebiotix tells us and their approach to treating severe bacterial infections called c. difficile, and Andrew Strong, the CEO of Kalon Biotherapeutics, talks about their U.S. government to provide massive doses of vaccines in response to pandemic, and how they are also working on cancer vaccines.

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’s lonely, but rewarding.Then on BioTech Nation, Virginia Governor TERRY McAULIFFE tells us that Virginia isn’t just for lovers. Virginia also means biotech, and also, JIM GREENWOOD, the president and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization. He interviewed both Richard Branson and Hillary Clinton on their relation to biotech.

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with McGill professor and behavioral neuroscientist DANIEL LEVITIN about “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload.” Our brains need to operate differently today than they ever did before.Then on BioTech Nation, “The most important genome in your body may not be your own.” So says MOHAN IYER, the Chief Business Officer of Second Genome. We talk about our microbiomes – the trillions of microbes which populate our bodies, as well as the impact they may have on us.

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 never make it.Then on BioTech Nation, ANNE WOJCICKI , the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe, where there’s plenty new with a grant from the National Institutes of Health and a new partnership with Pfizer.

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 of science, how it changes over time, and what it can and can’t tell us.Then on Biotech Nation, it’s DR. KATE RITTENHOUSE-OLSON, the President of For-Robin. The focus is triple negative breast cancer, but their work may have found a way to stop metastasis.

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 nowhere to be found on google maps.Then on BioTech Nation, an approach to treating the rejection of organ transplants in their earliest stage – if you’ve had an organ transplant, remember … your donor organ’s DNA is different from your own.

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 by default".Then on BioTech Nation, DR. JENNIFER MILLER from Bioethics International talks about the willingness of pharmaceutical companies to provide the clinical trials data behind their approved drugs.

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."