TechNation Radio Podcast
379 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 54 ratingsTechNation Radio hosted by Dr Moira Gunn
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Episode 570: Episiode 24-16 Amazon or Walmart - who's got the tech?
April 19, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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. ...
Episode 569: Episode 24-15 A More Beautiful Question
April 11, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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.
Episode 568: Episode 24-14 Safe Online Standards
April 04, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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.
Episode 567: Episode 24-13 Experiential Intelligence?
March 28, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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.”
Episode 566: Episode 24-12 Fighting Inflammation
March 20, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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”.
Episode 565: Episode 24-11 How Computers Learned to Write
March 15, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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 t...
Episode 564: Episode 24-10 Remembering the people of Love Canal
March 08, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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...
Episode 563: Episode 24-09 Healing from Narcissistic People
February 29, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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.
Episode 562: Episode 24-08 Excellent Advice for Living
February 22, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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.
Episode 561: Episode 24-07 In the Mouth of the Wolf
February 16, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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...
Episode 560: Episode 24-06 One Drug, Many Diseases
February 09, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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”.
Episode 559: Episode 24-05 Building Immunity to Misinformation
January 31, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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.
Episode 558: Episode 24-04 Friction, Good and Bad???
January 24, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBOn 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.”
Episode 557: Episode 24-03 Is There Truly a Global Press???
January 17, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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 ab...
Episode 556: Episode 24-02 Roads, Roads, and Even More Roads???
January 10, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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.
Episode 555: Episode 24-01 Biotech Beyond Covid
January 04, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn 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.
Episode 554: Episode 23-52 Can Every Medicine Be a Pill???
December 28, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Stewart Campbell, CEO of Axial Therapeutics, about their groundbreaking work in Autism–related irritability in teenagers, in Parkinson’s, and in complementing the latest cancer treatments. Then Dr. Ray Stevens, CEO of ShouTi Pharma, talks about their approach in turning IV drugs into pills. Current projects include Diabetes and obesity and two Pulmonary and Cardiovascular disorders. And these are just their first candidates …
Episode 553: Episode 23-51 Science, Technology and Race
December 20, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Dr. Patrice Matchaba, the President of the Novartis US Foundation. He talks about how the limits of medical technology itself have excluded Black/African Americans and Persons of Color … and sometimes *all* women. Then University of Chicago professor Dr Neil Shubin talks about “Some Assembly required … Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.” Ancient viruses in our DNA? And what about “jumping genes”?
Episode 552: Episode 23-50 Don’t have any feelings? Think again
December 14, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with scientist and prolific author Dr. Leonard Mlodinow about “Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking”. Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft tells us who may medically qualify to go into space – you may be surprised by his answers.
Episode 551: Episode 23- 49 Nuts and Bolts, and Brains???
December 07, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Structural Engineer Roma Agrawal about her book, “Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way.” Then Nicolas Vachicouras, CEO and Co-Founder of Neurosoft Bioelectronics, takes us on an inside tour of our brain and what flexible implants might do. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the newest XPrize worth an unprecedented $101 Million.
Episode 550: Episode 23-48 Think Fast, Talk Smart
November 30, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Business School Lecturer, Matt Abrahams, about his book, “THINK FASTER, TALK SMARTER: How To Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot”. Then, Dr. Steffen-Sebastian Bolz from Aphaia Pharma talks about their new drug, currently in phase 3 trial, that may provide the benefits of Ozempic and Wegovy - without the injection.
Episode 549: Episode 23-47 Rationality? Too Much to Ask?
November 24, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard professor experimental cognitive scientist Steven Pinker about “Rationality … What it is, Why it seems scarce, and Why it matters”. Then Lemony Snicket – the one and only. You know him from his children’s book series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. He’s here with “Poison for Breakfast”. You will start bewildered and leave bewildered, but feeling much better about it.
Episode 548: Episode 23-46 Big Tech Today
November 16, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist Alex Kantrowitz about his 2020 book, “Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever” which has spawned his work, as Founder and Editor of Big Technology. Then, Dr. Mark Sumeray, Chief Medical Officer of Amolyt Pharma, talks about their innovative approach to treating hormonal conditions.
Episode 547: Episode 23-45 It’s All About Cancer, and Covid???
November 09, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Andrew Allen, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Gritstone Bio, about Cancer and Covid, and what next-generation treatments mean today. Then, Futurist Alex Pang describes Continuous Partial Attention, thanks to the constant presence of our personal technologies.
Episode 546: Episode 23-44 Where Will AI Take Us???
November 02, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Infection AI, about “The Coming Wave … Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma”. Then, Bloomberg columnist Adam Minter talks about his 2019 book, “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale.” You dropped it off at the thrift store … where does it go from there?
Episode 545: Episode 23-43 Tech Nation: … Ideas, Ideas, Ideas
October 25, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jeremy Utley, the Director of Executive Education at Stanford University’s d.school, joins Moira to talk about his book “IdeaFlow.” You have no idea how important ideas are in your life, and just how many you’ll need! Then in biotech, human clinical trials have begun to treat a particular type of Epilepsy called Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Dr. Cory Nicholas from Neurona Therapeutics tells us about their big idea and how they have developed a...
Episode 544: Episode 23-42 Got Free Will???
October 18, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky about “Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about how Medical Schools decide what to teach.
Episode 543: Episode 23-41 Rethinking Being Human
October 12, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Virginia Tech Professor Ashley Shew about “Against Technoableism … Rethinking Who Needs Improvement”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about your digital twin, and Dr. Anthony Japour, President and CEO of iTolerance, tells us about a new approach to treating diabetes.
Episode 542: Episode 23-40 Google’s First Radio Interview Ever!
October 05, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In recognition of Google’s 25th anniversary this year 2000 Tech Nation interview is the first radio interview they ever did. But first, cognitive scientist Maryanne Wolf and her book: “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World”. Then, Dr. Daniel Kraft, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, tells us about the explosion of digital health.
Episode 541: Episode 23-39 Ian Wilmut, Dolly & Biotech
September 27, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Sir Ian Wilmut, the Scottish embryologist and the leader for the team that cloned Dolly the sheep. This 2007 BioTech Nation interview marked the 10th anniversary of Dolly’s birth. Then, Michael Shermer talks about his book, “Heavens on Earth – The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.” We’ll find out who believes – or does not believe – in immortality
Episode 540: Episode 23-38 Making Effective Therapies, Even More Effective
September 20, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Tom Ireland, Science Journalist and Author, “The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage”. Then Dr. Robert Ladner, CEO & Founder of CV6 Therapeutics, tells us about their work to improve a cornerstone cancer chemotherapy.
Episode 539: Episode 23-37 The Right Antidepressant the First Time?
September 15, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, developing antidepressants along with a test so when you take them, you know they will work. Dr. Amit Etkin, the founder and CEO Alto Neuroscience, explains how looking at each patient’s underlying biology is essential. Then Sir Rory Collins, the Principal Investigator of the UK BioBank. With data from half a million people, it has served 30,000 scientists around the world, giving special support to young researchers and scientists in emergent countries. ...
Episode 538: Episode 23-36 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Distraction
September 06, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with CEO Dr. Ben Thomas and Chief Commercial Officer Dermot Tierney from Amply Discovery talks about how their novel approach to AI in drug discovery. Then, Dr. Daniel Kraft, the founder and chair of NextMed Health tells us about ChatGPT and Healthcare. And Dr. Alex Pang’s still relevant 2013 interview on smartphones and social media – it’s "The Distraction Addiction."
Episode 537: Episode 23-35 How the NSF sprung into action during Covid
August 31, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan, the Director of the National Science Foundation talks about how they had to pivot during Covid to act fast. Then, in Biotech, with today’s cannabis concentrations, acute cannabis intoxication is on the rise. Dr. Ken Cundy, CSO at Anebulo Pharma is working to create an antidote.
Episode 536: Episode 23-34 Are you healthy? Your tech can tell
August 24, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks on the ability to monitor both our health … and our illnesses. Even the ability to see if our medical condition is changing or that last update in prescription really worked. And what about when you travel? Dr. Kal Patel is the Co-Founder and CEO of BrightInsight. He tells us about the challenges and BrightInsight’s solutions. Then speaking of all this new tech, where are we going with all this? David Ewing Duncan’s insights from his 2019 boo...
Episode 535: Episode 23-33 Amazon or Walmart -- who's got the tech?
August 16, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn 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 which 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 sarcoidos...
Episode 534: Episode 23-32 From Big Bang to You – The Atoms that Connect Us All…
August 11, 2023 17:54 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dan Levitt, Award-winning documentary producer and Author, “What’s Gotten Into You … The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner.” Then, in Biotech, we look at progress in Gliobastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. Dr. Fahar Merchant, the President & CEO of Medicenna Therapeutics, joins me to talk about their unprecedented approach to clinical trials.
Episode 533: Episode 23-31 A 1-2-3 Punch for Alzheimer’s
August 03, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Gene Kinney, the President and CEO of Prothena Biosciences, about a 1-2-3 punch for Alzheimer’s - fighting amyloids, fighting tau, and their work on a vaccine that just might prevent Alzheimer’s altogether. Then Daniel Pink talks about Regret. Research shows you can begin to ease the pain by writing 15 minutes a day for 3 days. His book is “The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward”.
Episode 532: Episode 23-30 YouTube – 500 hrs of Video per Minute
July 28, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bloomberg and BusinessWeek journalist Mark Bergen about the challenge of keeping up with the 100’s of hours of video uploaded every minute. His book is “Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination”. Then an excerpt from Wired Science Editor Kara Platoni’s original interview about her 2015 book: “We Have the Technology: How Biohackers, Foodies, and Physicians are Transforming Human Perception.” It’s even mo...
Episode 531: Episode 23-29 Yes, you can outrun a Tyrannosaurus
July 20, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Cody Cassidy, Wired contributor, “How to Survive History … How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History’s Deadliest Catastrophes”. Then, Wharton Professor, Dr. Jonah Berger, follow his earlier books, “Contagious” and “Invisible Influence”. His latest is “The Catalyst – How to Change Anyone’s Mind”.
Episode 530: Episode 23-28 The Science of Botany is Not for the Timid
July 13, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Melissa Sevigny (Sev-inn-nee), Science Journalist and Author, “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon”. Then, Emory University Professor Dr. Cassandra Quave is in search of plants for medical botany. Her book is, “The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines”
Episode 530: Episode 23-28 The Science of Botany is Not for the Timid
July 13, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Melissa Sevigny (Sev-inn-nee), Science Journalist and Author, “Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon”. Then, Emory University Professor Dr. Cassandra Quave is in search of plants for medical botany. Her book is, “The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines”
Episode 529: Episode 23-27 High Seas Conspiracy
July 06, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bloomberg BusinessWeek investigative journalist Kit Chellel (“Shell-lel”) talks about “Dead in the Water … A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy.” It makes the movie “Captain Philips” look pretty tame. Then if you thought that all the new vaccines would be mRNA vaccines – you’d be wrong. Dr. Robert Coleman, the Co-Founder and CEO of Codagenix, shows us how to precisely engineer viruses to be effective vaccines. Even...
Episode 528: Episode 23-26 Mapping Biology ??
June 30, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, conjure up images of test tubes, and replace it with tiny wells on index-card-size trays, and robots moving them to and fro. Dr. Chris Gibson, the CEO of Recursion Pharmaceuticals, tells us about their effort to analyze all of human biology, and the drugs in their very own pipeline. Then, who knew Sociology and Criminology were linked? University of Denver professor Jared Del Rosso talks about his book “Denial … How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems””, a...
Episode 527: Episode 23-25 Your distant cousins and their DNA ...
June 20, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Ed Humes. His latest is “The Forever Witness … How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder.” We get an object lesson in the Three Ages of DNA, and while it reads like a fast-paced Cold Case on steroids – it provides details no fiction writer would dare to make up, like the unexpected involvement of the famous true crimes writer, Ann Rule, and a person whose DNA skills are familiar to fans of the PBS docu...
Episode 526: Episode 23-24 Digital Technology, Freedom & Democracy
June 15, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jamie Susskind about his book, “The Digital Republic … On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century”. Then, in Biotech, a potential successor to stem cells - fibroblasts? Yes, fibroblasts. Dr. Hamid Khoja, Chief Scientific Officer of FibroBiologics in Houston, describes their fibroblast programs in such diverse conditions as Degenerative Disk Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
Episode 525: Episode 23-23 What’s Up with Netflix?
June 08, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalists Dade Hayes & Dawn Chmielewski about “Binge Times: Inside Hollywood’s Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix”. From the stock plunge of Netflix to the rise of Bridgerton, it’s a streaming war for our attention. Then in Biotech, could “sticky proteins” lead to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and more? Dr. Maria Maccecchini, Founder, President and CEO of Annovis Bio, tells us about their approach.
Episode 524: Episode 23-22 How Data is Revolutionizing Professional Sports
May 31, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bruce Schoenfeld, journalist and author of “Game of Edges …The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports.”, about the data revolution in professional sports.
Episode 523: Episode 23-21 New Ways to Treat What Ails Us
May 24, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Francois Vigneault, Co-Founder and CEO of Shape Therapeutics, talks about how they’re engineering mRNA to address Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Then, Dr. Pail Peter Tak, CEO of Candel Therapeutics is using immuno-oncology treatments to go after solid tumors as well as cancers which have metastasized.
Episode 522: Episode 23-20 Wisdom for the Ages
May 19, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBFounding Executive Editor at Wired magazine Kevin Kelly is here with “Excellent Advice for Living … Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier.” Then two different efforts from the front lines of fighting cancer. Dr. Paul Lammers from Triumvira Immunologics tells us about their approach, both as a complement to such existing treatments as Keytruda, and as a standalone cancer drug in its own. Then Dr. Philip Kantoff from Convergent Therapeutics tells about their efforts in the most advanced, in...