Tech Nation with Moira Gunn
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Dr. Moira Gunn is the host of Public Radio's Tech
Nation, where she has conducted over 2,000 interviews with space pioneers
and cyber-novelists, venture capitalists and genetics researchers, teachers
and technophobes. A former NASA scientist and engineer, Dr. Gunn is a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Tech Museum of Innovation and
the Tech Awards' Global Leadership Council, and has served as a member
of the Awards Selection Committee for the Space Technology Hall of Fame.
The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue
University, she also holds advanced degrees in Computer Science and a
software technical patent. Dr. Gunn is regularly asked to speak on the
Impact of Technology on Society, on the Current and Projected State of
Global Technology Penetration, and on her experience as a Woman in Technology,
Science and Engineering.
Between 2004 and 2012 The Conversations Network published 748 podcast episodes
of Technation. Look for them and more-recent programs on the
Tech Nation website (http://technation.com).
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Dr. Moira Gunn visits with author, George Prochnik, to talk about his new book, In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, where he examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.
Dr. Moira Gunn celebrates the 10th birthday of decoding the human genome with author and journalist, David Ewing Duncan.
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews author and Director of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, John Hagel, about his new book, The Power of Pull, which the Harvard Business Review calls an exhilarating read as the authors sublimely reinvent the world of enterprise.
Dr. Moira Gunn shares insight with Eric Thomlinson, President and CEO of Altea Therapeutics, about their new devices for injecting drugs, without the use of a needle.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the President of Regulus Therapeutics, Kleanthis Xanthopolous, about his companies work in the field of micro RNA, it's role in disease and how it may provide an opportunity for treatment.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author, Ted Conover, about the importance of roads in the evolution of human history, from the ancient Romans and Incas to modern day Israel and Palestine.
Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan talk personalized medicine with Wired magazine Executive Editor, Thomas Goetz.
Dr. Moira Gunn chats with author and science journalist, Shankar Vedantam about his new book, The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives, touching on how the brain functions automatically during times of heightened emotion.
Dr. Moria Gunn talks with author, David Shenk, about his book, The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent and IQ is Wrong, reviewed by the New York Times Book Review as 'a deeply interesting and important book.'
Dr. Moira Gunn visits Syntaxin Ltd. CFO, Phil Boyd to talk about all things Botox.
