On this week’s Tech Nation, members of the CES 2018 panel “Who Owns Athlete’s Data?” Dr. Leslie Saxon, from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and Eric Winston, the President of the NFL Players Association. Dave Aufhauser, Managing Director, Sports and Entertainment at Intel on the fan experience with live 360 Virtual Reality. And Guy Kawasaki ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Mitch Prinstein, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There’s a science to being popular – and a proven path to likability. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr Daniel Kraft brings 3D printing into healthcare – there’s a lot o ...…
Moira speaks with Yale psychology professor John Bargh about “Before You Know It – The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”. And on Tech Nation Health, a radical new treatment to replace human skin following a serious burn. Dr. Denver Lough (“Low”), the President & CEO of PolarityTE, tells us how it works, and how a group of doctors left a hos ...…
Unedited 2005 interview with Elizabeth Holmes, President & CEO, Theranos.Recorded at KQED in San FranciscoTech Nation Media retains full rights regarding this transcript, the raw audio it reflects, and the final edited audio which aired over NPR Now and other broadcast and Internet venues. Attribution should be given as “Unedited Tech Nation in ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Andreas Weigand, former chief scientist at Amazon, and author of “Data for the People.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Marshall Summar, Director of the Rare Disease Institute and Chief of Genetics and Metabolism at Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC. They talk about treating rare diseases in the ver ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with …Ray Dalio, the founder and co-chair of Bridgewater Associates, which he founded 40 years ago in his 2 bedroom apartment. Today it is recognized as the world’s largest hedge fund. His mental processes, his values and how he sees the world are all part of his book “Principles: Life and Work”. Then on ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with …Stanford History professor Tom Mullaney about “The Chinese Typewriter”. And on Tech Nation Health, we celebrate the Summer of Love. Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft follows the recreational drugs through today with new therapeutics. And Amit Munshi, the President & CEO of Arena Pharmaceuticals ...…
Moira speaks with journalist Jason Fagone talks about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneer in codebreaking, from World War I to rumrunners to drug smuggling to the famous Enigma machine. His book is “The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Michael Shermer talks about “Heavens on Earth – The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.” We’ll find out who believes – or does not believe – in an afterlife.Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Carl Ware, from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, talks about viruses, ca ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, how technology has enabled the economies of scale to trickle down to everyone. Hemant Taneja, a managing director at the venture capital firm General Catalyst talks about “Unscaled – How AI and the Next Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future.” And on Tech Nation Health, understanding more about ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Shidan Gouran, the President of Global Blockchain Technologies, about the difference between Blockchain and Bitcoin, and what cryptocurrencies mean to traditional banking.Then on Tech Nation Health, a new technology aims to make a range of existing medications more effective. George Yeh, President of TLC Bio, describ ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times journalist Matt Richtel about his latest novel, “Dead on Arrival”. And on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr Daniel Kraft examines the reality and the potential of using drones in healthcare.
On this week’s Tech Nation, we discover what science might do for Food, Energy, Water and the Environment in the Arequipa Valley of Peru. Purdue University geosciences professor Tim Filley describes their work. Then on Tech Nation Health, what the World Health Organization calls out as a burning need – healthcare management. Steve Sammut joins ...…
On this week’s BioTech Nation, psychologist Dr. Susan David speaks on “Emotional Agility” as well as her TED Talk, “The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage”. Then on Tech Nation Health: The opioid crisis. Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft to brings us up to date with the surprising findings of a new study.…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Harvard professor Steven Pinker makes the case that we’re better off today than ever before. His book is “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft takes us beyond the hype on “artificial intelligence” in healthcare.…
On this week’s Tech Nation, a full complement of inventor/entrepreneurs from CES in Las Vegas. That would be Chris Young, the CEO of McAfee, Sjoerd Pitstra, the Founder & CEO of Roader, Carol Staninger, the CEO of Ancer, and Taj Manku, the Co-Founder and CEO of Cognitive Systems. They are all motivated, come from Silicon Valley to Waterloo, Can ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Psychologist Dr. Guy Winch. He tells us the science behind “How To Fix A Broken Heart”. Then non Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft tells us about his work as a pediatric oncologist.
On this week’s Tech Nation, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, the CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness in San Francisco, with her new book “The Deepest Well … Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about … the microbiome, and how the right surgical intervention can ch ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, NYU professor Melissa Schilling talks about everyone from Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk in “Quirky – The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Chris Smith from the start-up, Q-Sera in Brisbane, Australia, te ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Sir Mark Walport, former Chief Science Advisor for the UK Government and soon, the first Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation – you may be surprised at the UK’s impact on our everyday technology. Then NPR’s lead digital education correspondent Anya Kamenetz (Kam-inettes), and her book, “The Art of Screen Tim ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Andrew Keen talks about “How to fix the Future”. And on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Steve Mento from Conatus Pharmaceuticals talks about our livers and their scientific work in treating NASH and Cirrhosis of the liver. Also, Chief Correspondent Daniel Kraft describes the social determinants of health. Yes, it makes a dif ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, a full hour of Tech Nation Health, reimagining the future of health and healthcare with the emergence of new technologies. DR. DANIEL KRAFT, Chief Correspondent for Tech Nation Health talks about the future of Surgery and Other Interventions. Purdue Professor, DR. PHIL LOW, the Director of Purdue Center for Drug Disc ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, with an overview of CES 2018, Rick Kowalski, the Manager of Industry and Business Intelligence at the Consumer Technology Association. And going beyond gadgets, Arizona State professor Cody Friesen (“Free-senn”) tells us how his company, Zero Mass Water, is building hydropanels, producing water from sunlight and air. ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, members of the CES 2018 panel “Who Owns Athlete’s Data?” Dr. Leslie Saxon, from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and Eric Winston, the President of the NFL Players Association. Dave Aufhauser, Managing Director, Sports and Entertainment at Intel on the fan experience with live 360 Virtual Reality. And Guy Kawasaki ...…
On this week’s BioTech Nation, Aaron Horowitz and Hannah Chung, Co-Founders of Sproutel and Designers of My Special AFLAC Duck, for children with cancer. Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Todd Brady, CEO of Aldeyra describes their work on a disease which affects one-third of people. It led to a new drug helping patients with a very rare disease - ...…
On this week’s BioTech Nation, Jaron Lanier talks about “Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality”. Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. Hartmut Ehrlich, the CEO opf Abivax, describes their efforts to keep HIV undetectable for longer and longer periods, and Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft explores the future of go ...…
On this week’s BioTech Nation, how video on your smartphone is the next generation of focus groups. We’ll hear from Patricia Roller, the CEO of Vidlet(VID-LETT). Then on Tech Nation Health, the link between Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease, Dr. Jerold Chun is a Professor and Director of Neuroscience Drug Discovery at Sanford Burnham Prebys ...…
On this week’s BioTech Nation, “The NPR Math Guy”, Keith Devlin, tells us about Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World”. Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft tells us about the winners of the Qualcomm Tricoder Xprize - StarTrek medicine isn’t fiction any more.…
On this week’s BioTech Nation, former Google CEO and Alphabet Executive Chair, Eric Schmidt along with former Senior Vice President for Products, Jonathan Rosenberg talk about “How Google Works”.Then on Tech Nation Health, faster diagnostics for the 25 species of bacteria which cause Sepsis. John McDonough, the CEO of T2 Biosystems, talks about ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Steven Johnson, the Author, “Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World.” Then on Tech Nation Health, chief correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the future of cancer – its prevention, early detection and emergent treatments. And Dr. Niclas Stiernholm, the President & CEO of Trillium Therapeuti ...…
Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor Edward Ashford Lee talks about “Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology.” Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the current state of Big Data in the healthcare field and Dr. Ajay Gupta from Rockwell Medical tells us about his work gettin ...…
Moira speaks with Walter Isaacson about his latest book “Leonardo Da Vinci”. After all these centuries, more information emerges. And on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft recaps the Exponential Medicine Conference 2017. And Dr. Ken Horne from Symic Bio talks about a common challenge: vein grafts in legs and arms.…
Moira speaks with Duke University Senior Fellow, Dan Heath, about“The Power of Moments”. It turns out, we actually remember our life in slices of time. Then on Tech Nation Health, it’s the power of viruses – against cancer. Moira speaks with Dr. Harry Gruber, the President for Science and Innovation at Tocagen about their genetically engineered ...…
Moira speaks with journalist Jason Fagone talks about Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a pioneer in codebreaking, from World War I to rumrunners to drug smuggling to the famous Enigma machine. His book is “The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies.”Then on Tech Nation Health, Dr. ...…
Moira speaks with Gary Shapiro, the President of the Consumer Technology Association about technology and tech jobs in the US and globally. And where does all this innovation come from? Rice University music professor Anthony Brandt and Stanford neuroscientist, David Eagleman look at “How Human Creativity Remakes the World”.…
Moira speaks with Yale psychology professor John Bargh about “Before You Know It – The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do”. And on Tech Nation Health, a radical new treatment to replace human skin following a serious burn. Dr. Denver Lough (“Low”), the President & CEO of PolarityTE, tells us how it works, and how a group of doctors left a hos ...…
Moira speaks with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and microloans to the poor. He sees “A World of Three Zeros” – Zero Poverty, Unemployment, and Net Carbon Emissions. Then on Tech Nation Health, brain cancer in children. Dr. Rob Wechsler-Reya heads the Tumor Initiation and Maintenance Program at Sa ...…
On this week’s BioTech Nation, Dr. NATHANIEL DAVID, Founder & CEO of Unity Biotechnology talks about the role of “senescent” cells in aging.
On this week’s BioTech Nation, Moira speaks with …Ray Dalio, the founder and co-chair of Bridgewater Associates, which he founded 40 years ago in his 2 bedroom apartment. Today it is recognized as the world’s largest hedge fund. His mental processes, his values and how he sees the world are all part of his book “Principles: Life and Work”.Then ...…
On this week’s BioTech Nation, Moira speaks with …Stanford History professor Tom Mullaney about “The Chinese Typewriter”. And on Tech Nation Health, we celebrate the Summer of Love. Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft follows the recreational drugs through today with new therapeutics. And Amit Munshi, the President & CEO of Arena Pharmaceutica ...…
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with …Dr. Seth Lederman from Tonix Pharmaceuticals about military-related PTSD. Their drug has been fast-tracked by the FDA. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Daniel Kraft with Jordan Amadio about the emergent technology in the field of neurosurgery, and Dr. Elliot Goldstein from ProMIS Neu ...…
On this week’s BioTech Nation, Moira speaks with …Dr. Taj Manku, the Co-Founder of Cognitive Systems in Waterloo, Canada. AuraHome enables in-home security with no gadgets to put on your windows – no need to arm it when you leave. Then a new segment on Tech Nation - Tech Nation Health! Where we reimagine the future of health and healthcare with ...…
On this week's BioTech Nation, Dr. Mario Livio and his book: Why? What Makes Us Curious. And on Tech Nation Health, a look at rapid genome analysis for newborns in trouble. Dr. Stephen Kingsmore, the President and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine tells us about their experience.…
On this week's BioTech Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times journalist Matt Richtel about his latest novel, "Dead on Arrival". And on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr Daniel Kraft examines the reality and the potential of using drones in healthcare.
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr Nora Volkow, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, talks about the grip of addiction and the opioid crisis, prescription opiates, heroin and fentanyl, synthetically-produced heroin. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr Daniel Kraft examines misaligned incentives. in healthcare, and Dr ...…
On this week's BioTech Nation, Mark Wolynn, the Director of the Family Constellation Institute, and author of "It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle."Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft speaks to the new science of diet, and Dr. Evan Snyder from the Sanford ...…
On this week's BioTech Nation, we'll hear from Dr. Herb Needleman, who measured the impact of very low levels of lead on children, and the result removed lead from household paint and put unleaded gasoline in our cars. Then, another scientist who wanted research to reach the people who needed it - Dr. Perry Nisen, CEO of Sanford Burnham Prebus ...…
On this week's BioTech Nation, Carmine Gallo relates "The Story Teller's Secret" Turns out - there's a science to telling your story. Then on Tech Nation Health, we learn that there's more in your gut than bacteria. Case-Western University Professor Mahmoud Ghannoum and his son, Afif (Ah-Feefth) Ghannoum, the CEO of Pathobiome (path-oh-bye-ohm) ...…
On this week's BioTech Nation, if it looks like a newborn baby and moves like one and sounds like one, well, it just might be Super Tory, the newborn simulator from Gaumard (Gah-mard) Scientific. Jim Archetto (Ar-ketto) joins Moira to talk about Super Tory in detail. Then, speaking of what it takes to address complex engineering feats, Dr. Dani ...…
On this week's BioTech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Mitch Prinstein, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There's a science to being popular and a proven path to likability. Then on Tech Nation Health, Chief Correspondent Dr Daniel Kraft brings 3D printing into healthcare. Theres a lot of ...…