TechNation Radio Podcast

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withUC Berkeley professor EDWARD FRENKEL about sneaking into mathclasses at Moscow University and how mathematics is everywhere inour lives.Then on BioTech Nation, DR. DAVID MARTIN from AvidBiotics talks about the CDC's new report on antibiotic resistance.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withGeneticist SEAN CARROLL about Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize.Then on BioTech Nation, how decoding the human genome affects the durgs of our future, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's Google vs. Death.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withDONALD McDONALD, the architect of the new East span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.Then on BioTech Nation, a new global healthcare report form Deloitte, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, we look at the impact of reducing federal funds on new medical research.

On this week's Tech Nation,we look at a time in American life when a scientist and science wereforefront in the minds of the public. We talk about the atomicbomb, the media embrace of Robert Oppenheimer, and nationalinterests in the post-World War II Cold War.Then on BioTech Nation, an Australian firm takes antibodies from sharks to create new medications. And the latest report on the environmental impact of biotechnology on global agriculture.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withFuturist ALEX PANG about The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information you need and the communication you want without enraging your family, annoying your colleagues and destroying your soul.Then on BioTech Nation, we hear from ALEX KARLE, the COO of The Evaluate Group in London. He tells us about their global report on orphan drugs - therapeutics for diseases and conditions that affect mere thousands of humans, but may hold the key to treatments affecting everyone.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withStanford's Dr. Sanjay Basu about how cutting some social programs when times are bad hurts more than we realise, it's actually there in the economics data.Then on BioTech Nation, we hear about new hope in fighting hospital acquired infections and on BioIssue of the Week, David gets his own stem cell line.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withFortune contributing editor CLIFTON LEAF and a look at the 40 year old war on cancer.And on BioTech Nation, DR. BEN CHEN, the Executive Chairman of Immune Targeting Systems in London tells us why your T cells have great potential for fighting challenges from the flu to cancer.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks withSports Illustrated's DAVID EPSTEIN , about "The SportsGene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance."Then on Biotech Nation, how decades of tissue samples for Lupus aremore important than ever. And on BioIssue of the Week with DavidEwing Duncan, answers the quetsion: "If somebody puts my DNA outthere online can somebody figure out it's me?"

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withDR. AJIT VARKI talks about Denial answering thequestion, why did humans develop such complex mental abilities andother species did not?Than on BioTech Nation, a biotech company which started on acocktail napkin and addressing the challenge of getting everyonein the world vaccinated quickly and cheaply.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks withSARA ELIZABETH RICHARDS about Motherhood Rescheduled, womenactually freezing their own eggs.Then on BioTech Nation, protecting our annual flu shots fromsometimes missing a strain, and on BioIssue of the Week, David EwingDuncan tells us all about the micro biome, a hundred trillioncritters in each of us.