

TechNation Radio Podcast
Tech Nation
TechNation Radio hosted by Dr Moira Gunn
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Aug 19, 2014 • 60min
Episode 14-32 Tech Nation: Everyday Creativity Lessons from Pixar
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 your 80% done, they lost both the main files and the back-up files to Toy Story.Then on BioTech Nation, a new approach to recovery from hip fracture from both biotech-supported advanced nutrition and what it takes to build muscles.

Jul 3, 2014 • 60min
Episode 51: 12/31/2013 Tech Nation: The Riddle of the Labyrinth
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 Code.Then on BioTech Nation Britain's National Health Service makes acommitment to using a patientís whole genome in their healthcare.

Jul 3, 2014 • 60min
Episode 49: 12/24/2013 Tech Nation: Self-publishing in the age of social media
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withGUY KAWASAKI about how authors today must also be Publishers andEntrepreneurs.Then on BioTech Nation, we talk about things we eat all the time that aren't organic. PETER WONG from TruTag Technologies tells ushow they can be used to foil pharmaceutical counterfeiting.

Jul 3, 2014 • 60min
Episode 46: Tech Nation- 17-12-2013 NFL- The League of Denial
We speak to Mark Fainaru-Wada, author of "League of Denial"- The NFL, Concussions and the battle for truth.On BioTech Nation Duchenne muscular dystrophy and DED taks the science of "beam me up Scotty" with our own DNA.

Jul 3, 2014 • 60min
Episode 45: 12/10/2013 Tech Nation: Steve Jobs
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withWALTER ISAACSON, with his biography of Steve Jobs, and on BioTech Nation, new approaches to cancer, placing human DNA in fruitflies to study Alzheimer's and Parkinsons, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, a salute to a recently-passed Nobel Laureate.

Jul 3, 2014 • 60min
Episode 44: 12/3/2013 Tech Nation: The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci
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 genius there.Then on BioTech Nation, we talk about a new view of addiction and new developments for all addictions.

Jul 3, 2014 • 60min
Episode 43: 11/26/2013 Tech Nation: Nobel Prizes Explained
n this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withA panel of professors from the University of San Francisco, it's "Nobel Prizes Explained."

Jul 3, 2014 • 60min
Episode 43: 11/12/2013 Tech Nation: We're Smarter That We Think
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 BioTech Nation, the new vaccines and how we get them toeveryone young, old, rich and poor, and on BioIssue of the Weekwith David Ewing Duncan, the top innovations of 2013 from theCleveland Clinic.

Jul 3, 2014 • 60min
Episode 42: 11/04/2013 Tech Nation: Po Bronson Top Dog in the science of winning and losing
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 for the 27 million Americans who suffer from osteoarthritis and on BioIssue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan see new bioethical challenges for professional sports.

Jul 3, 2014 • 60min
Episode 42: 10/29/2013 Tech Nation: Social Media: The First 2,000 Years
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 BioTech Nation, on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's all about "rare science."


