Latest Moira Podcast Episodes
Episode 571: Episode 24-17 Climate Change and Our Brain
TechNation Radio Podcast - April 25, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Environmental journalist Clayton Page Aldern about his book, “The Weight of Nature … How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains”. Then, Dr. Sean Bohen, President & CEO of Olema Oncology, talks about what we’ve learned about the 70% of breast cancers,...
Episode 570: Episiode 24-16 Amazon or Walmart - who's got the tech?
TechNation Radio Podcast - April 19, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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...
Episode 569: Episode 24-15 A More Beautiful Question
TechNation Radio Podcast - April 11, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 ab...
Episode 568: Episode 24-14 Safe Online Standards
TechNation Radio Podcast - April 04, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 te...
Episode 567: Episode 24-13 Experiential Intelligence?
TechNation Radio Podcast - March 28, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 Breakthroug...
Episode 566: Episode 24-12 Fighting Inflammation
TechNation Radio Podcast - March 20, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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...
Episode 565: Episode 24-11 How Computers Learned to Write
TechNation Radio Podcast - March 15, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 Pan...
Episode 564: Episode 24-10 Remembering the people of Love Canal
TechNation Radio Podcast - March 08, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 Ca...
Episode 563: Episode 24-09 Healing from Narcissistic People
TechNation Radio Podcast - February 29, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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...
Episode 562: Episode 24-08 Excellent Advice for Living
TechNation Radio Podcast - February 22, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 canc...
Episode 561: Episode 24-07 In the Mouth of the Wolf
TechNation Radio Podcast - February 16, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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...
Episode 560: Episode 24-06 One Drug, Many Diseases
TechNation Radio Podcast - February 09, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 N...
Episode 559: Episode 24-05 Building Immunity to Misinformation
TechNation Radio Podcast - January 31, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 ...
Episode 558: Episode 24-04 Friction, Good and Bad???
TechNation Radio Podcast - January 24, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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? Du...
Episode 557: Episode 24-03 Is There Truly a Global Press???
TechNation Radio Podcast - January 17, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 ...
Episode 556: Episode 24-02 Roads, Roads, and Even More Roads???
TechNation Radio Podcast - January 10, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 techno...
Episode 555: Episode 24-01 Biotech Beyond Covid
TechNation Radio Podcast - January 04, 2024 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 t...
Episode 554: Episode 23-52 Can Every Medicine Be a Pill???
TechNation Radio Podcast - December 28, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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, talk...
Episode 553: Episode 23-51 Science, Technology and Race
TechNation Radio Podcast - December 20, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 ...
Episode 552: Episode 23-50 Don’t have any feelings? Think again
TechNation Radio Podcast - December 14, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 ...
Episode 551: Episode 23- 49 Nuts and Bolts, and Brains???
TechNation Radio Podcast - December 07, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 ...
Episode 550: Episode 23-48 Think Fast, Talk Smart
TechNation Radio Podcast - November 30, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 ...
Episode 549: Episode 23-47 Rationality? Too Much to Ask?
TechNation Radio Podcast - November 24, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 Un...
Episode 548: Episode 23-46 Big Tech Today
TechNation Radio Podcast - November 16, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 Ph...
Episode 547: Episode 23-45 It’s All About Cancer, and Covid???
TechNation Radio Podcast - November 09, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 o...
Episode 546: Episode 23-44 Where Will AI Take Us???
TechNation Radio Podcast - November 02, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 dr...
Episode 545: Episode 23-43 Tech Nation: … Ideas, Ideas, Ideas
TechNation Radio Podcast - October 25, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 ...
Episode 544: Episode 23-42 Got Free Will???
TechNation Radio Podcast - October 18, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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
TechNation Radio Podcast - October 12, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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 i...
Episode 542: Episode 23-40 Google’s First Radio Interview Ever!
TechNation Radio Podcast - October 05, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 54 ratingsOn 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...
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