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 talks with distinguished University of Illinois professor, Mark Rasenick, about the science of depression.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with prominent public radio host, author and agnostic, Micheal Krasny, about the contents of his new book, Spiritual Envy … An Agnostic's Quest.
Dr. Moria Gunn catches up with biotech entrepreneurs, Ruben Henriquez, Vicens Tur and Pablo Escriba. All successfully started up companies from the beaches of Mallorca, Spain. Henriquez's company, Sanifit, works with innovative technologies fighting calcification in the body. Tur and Escriba, with their company, Lipo Pharma are taking a novel approach into utilizing lipids.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with craigslist Distinguished Professor in New Media & Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media. Ken Goldberg. They talk about Opinion Space, an experimental website of the US State Department.
Dr. Moira Gunn catches up with Corporate Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer for Baxter International Inc, Norbert Reidel, who talks her on a virtual tour of hospitals in the future.
Dr. Moira Gunn engages in a panel discussion on all things Nanotech with four of the world leading experts: Professor Patrick Maxwell, Head of Division of Medicine at University College, London, Professor Tony Cass, Research Director at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Professor Gabriel Aeppli, Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Dr. David Sarphie, CEO at Bio-Nano Consulting.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Paul Tan, CEO at Living Cell Technologies, about how they are using arctic pigs to provide a potential treatment for long term unstable diabetes.
Dr. Moira Gunn chats with author, Bill Bryson about his new book, At Home: A Short History of Private Life. In it, he examines how common household items have transformed the way people lived, and how houses have evolved around certain items.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with founder and CEO of Seeding Labs, Dr.Nina Dudnik about the program she is running to improve science education in emerging countries.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about rogue waves and the science that goes into finding them with author, Susan Casey. In her new book, The Wave … In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean, Casey 'imparts awe in her rogue-wave connection of commerce, science, and sport'.
