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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On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Helena Vieira talks about a new method to show if a promising new molecule might work... a method that's faster and cheaper then ever before.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with science writer David Bodanis, author of "Passionate Minds", about the scientist Emilie du Chatelet and the Poet Voltaire.
On BioTech Nation, Geoff Corbett talks to Dr. Moira Gunn about useful microorganisms in the volcanoes of Antarctica. And David Ewing Duncan explains how to get our own DNA test.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Jeffrey Toobin about the Supreme Court Justices and how tech-savvy they are... or aren't, as the case might be.
On BioTech Nation, Jim Greenwood, the President and CEO of BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, speaks with Dr. Moira Gunnabout an innovative new conference: Partnering for Global Health which brings together biotech and science, global philanthropists, and people in need.
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Norma Nowak, who looks at some interesting new discoveries which could some day replace amniocentesis. David Ewing Duncan returns with Bio-Issue of the Week.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Maryanne Wolf about how human brains have adapted since we invented writing and along with it reading.
Steve Wozniak and Mark Hodosh talk to Dr. Moira Gunn about the Archon X-Prize in Genomics - 100 complete genomes in 10 days, and discuss the difference it will make.
On BioTech Nation, DNA goes to the dogs when Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Edwin Quattlebau. Dr. Jim Hengst explains how materials used in research, such as cancer cells, SARS and HIV, are prepared and shipped to scientists.
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with movie critic Leonard Maltin, who explains how movies have changed over the years, and how they're changing today, all thanks to technology.
