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 speaks with Simon Singh about how humans have conceived the origins of the Universe throughout history -- from myth and misconceptions to today's Big Bang. [Tech Nation podcast on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with astrophysicist Brian Greene about his idea to test the origins of the universe from data we may already have. [Tech Nation podcast on IT Conversations]
What makes American's different -- genetically speaking that is? In conversations with Moira Gunn, Dr. Peter Whybrow, Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and author of American Mania, tells us what genes Americans share -- even though they hail from everywhere on the planet. [Tech Nation audio on IT Conversatinos]
Speaking with Dr. Moira Gunn, Michael Shermer, columnist for Scientific American and author of Science Friction, teaches us about being skeptical. Known to most people through his Skeptics column in Scientific American, they'll discuss the "Baloney detection kit." [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Patrick Lincoln, director of the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International, tells Moira Gunn what's new in the burgeoning field of bioinformatics. [Biotach Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Barry. You might know him from his award-winning book, Rising Tide. Now he shares what lessons we can learn today from the great influenza epidemic of 1918. [The Tech Nation podcast from IT Conversations]
In an interview with Dr. Moira Gunn on BioTech Nation, pharmacogenomics expert Dr. Nancy Mize fills us in on "personalized medicine." [Tech Nation podcast on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with psychiatrist Dr. Mark Epstein. While he's not averse to prescribing anti-depressants and other mainstream drugs, he's just as likely to prescribe Buddhist meditation. Sounds different, but the science supports it. [Tech Nation podcast on IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the former Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft Corporation, Robert Herbold. He's a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. They discuss some surprising facts about technology education in the United States. (Tech Nation podcast on IT Conversations)
Malcolm Gladwell is back on IT Conversations to discuss his new book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Dr. Moira Gunn asks him, "Do you really think there's a science of decision?" We have two kinds of thought, Malcolm says. The first is the rational, deliberate and conscious thought that we analyze and cherish. The other is the kind of thinking that occurs below the level of awareness, and it doesn't happen slowly and deliberately, but really quickly. We tend to dismiss the latter in our society, but in the past few years psychologists have referred to this as the product of the adaptive unconscious. It's a kind of a big computer that does all the background tasks. It's powerful and fast, but because it's not part of our consciousness, it's rather mysterious.
Join Moira for another great (audio) interview with an IT Conversations favorite.
