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TechNation Radio Podcast

Dr Moira Gunn

TechNation Radio hosted by Dr Moira Gunn

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Episode 24-49 Excellent Advice for Living

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2024/12/11

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the Founding Executive Editor at Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly is here with “Excellent Advice for Living … Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier.” Then, Dr Lishan Aklo, CEO of Lucid Diagnostics, tells us about the path from heartburn to oesophagal cancer and about their two-minute diagnostic test, which can detect precancerous cells.

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Episode 24-48 It’s All About Cancer, and Covid???

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2024/12/09

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Andrew Allen, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Gritstone Bio, about Cancer and Covid, and what next-generation treatments mean today. Then, Futurist Alex Pang describes Continuous Partial Attention, thanks to the constant presence of our personal technologies.

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Episode 24-47 Psychological Safety at Work??

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2024/11/28

In this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Gabriella Kellerman joins me to talk about “TomorrowMind – Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity and Connection – Now and in an Uncertain Future”. The cover everything from Rapid Rapport to Psychological Safety in our work environment. Then … what is AI doing in biotech? Dr Vimal Mehta tells us how his company, BioXcel, used AT in drug discovery. One drug has already been approved, and there are more in the pipeline.

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Episode 24-46 Rewiring the Brain?

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2024/11/22

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Peter Vanderklish, CEO of Spinogenix, focuses on regenerating brain synapses to combat conditions like depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, and ALS. Then, Dr. Caitlin Rivers from John Hopkins School of Public Health talks about her book, “Crisis Averted… The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks.”

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Episode 24-45 A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men

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2024/11/13

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Shannon Monaghan, a Military Historian, about her book, “A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men … The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II”. Then, Dr. Rollie Carlson, CEO of Immunexpress, tells us about their FDA, EU, and Australia-cleared, first-ever Sepsis test. Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about Food as Medicine and an official federal program called Food is Medicine.

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Episode 24-44 New Ways to Treat What Ails Us

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2024/11/07

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr Francois Vigneault, Co-Founder and CEO of Shape Therapeutics, who talks about how they’re engineering mRNA to address Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. Then, Dr. Pail Peter Tak, CEO of Candel Therapeutics, uses immuno-oncology treatments to treat solid tumours and metastasized cancers.

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Episode 24-43 How To Calm Your Mind? (And Why)

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2024/11/01

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Chris Bailey about “How to Calm Your Mind … Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times”. Science tells us that humans love dopamine, caffeine is essentially liquid stress, and burnout is more than being exhausted. Then, teaching our immune systems to recognize tumours in our own bodies and then eliminate them. Bolt Biotherapeutics’ CEO, Dr. Randy Schatzman, talks about the role of myeloid cells, and Bolt is studying nearly two dozen forms of

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Episode 24-42 The CRISPR Babies

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2024/10/25

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Anthropologist EBEN KIRKSEY, a professor of anthropology at Deakin University in Melbourne. He’s looked at the societal and ethical implications of CRISPR – and not just hypothetically. He travelled to China with an eye to understanding the circumstances of the three CRISPR babies known to exist. His book is “The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans”. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft gives us a

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Episode 24-41 AI Snake Oil

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2024/10/16

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University Professor of Computer Science about his book, “AI Snake Oil … What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference” Then, Dr. Avak Kahvejian, Founding CEO of Cellarity joins me to explain how comparing healthy and diseased cells, along with our understanding of medications, could help treat that disease at its source.

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Episode 24-40 Pivot or Die

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2024/10/11

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association and author of, “Pivot or Die… How Leaders Thrive When Everything Changes” about what you do when faced with change, and when you better get out and make some change. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft about generative AI and how it may affect your future health

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Episode 24-39 Covid and 15 Billion Vaccines

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2024/10/04

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Antony Taubman, Director of the Intellectual Property Division at the World Trade Organization, about how the world navigated international trade rules to develop and distribute 15 billion doses of Covid vaccine to countries of all economic statuses. Then, Brian Culley, CEO of Lineage Cell Therapeutics tells us about a whole new approach to treating disease that involves replacing your damaged cells with new ones. And, Tech Nation Health Chief

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Episode 24-38 How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

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2024/09/25

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with New York Times' Journalists and co-authors, Kate Conger and Ryan Ma, join me to talk about their book, “Character Limit … How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter". Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about the state of Covid in our lives today, and how it just won't go away!

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Episode 24-37 How Healthy Are You???

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2024/09/19

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Leroy Hood and Dr. Nathan Price about focusing on wellness with the help of science and their book, “The Age of Scientific Wellness … Why the Future of Medicine is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands”

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Episode 24-36 Who Needs a Horse?

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2024/09/12

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Colorado Mesa University Professor Timothy Winegard about his book, “The Horse … A Galloping History of Humanity”, and the dramatic impact horses have had in our lives - from the reason we all speak English to your everyday pair of pants. Then, an innovative approach to treating cancer with only a pill. Dr. Michael Weickert, CEO of Pacylex Pharmaceuticals, tells us about their early indicators of success in a range of cancers.

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Episode 24-35 Healing from Narcissistic People

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2024/09/06

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Clinical Psychologist and Author Dr. Ramani Durvasula about how to heal from Narcissists in your life and her book, “It’s Not You … Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People”. Then, regular contributor and author of, “Rest: Why You Get More Work Done, When You Work Less.”, Dr. Alex Pang, talks about getting employers to buy into a four-day work week - it may be easier than you think.

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Episode 24-34 Are you healthy? Your tech can tell

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2024/08/30

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks on the ability to monitor both our health … and our illnesses. Even the ability to see if our medical condition is changing or that last update in prescription really worked. And what about when you travel? Dr. Kal Patel is the Co-Founder and CEO of BrightInsight. He tells us about the challenges and BrightInsight’s solutions. Then speaking of all this new tech, where are we going with all this? David Ewing Duncan’s insights from his 2019 book, “Talking to

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Episode 24-33 Neurotech and the battle for your brain???

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2024/08/15

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Duke University Professor Nita Farahany about her book, “The Battle for Your Brain … Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.” Then recovering from the devastation of war, Conservation X Lab’s Dr. Alex Dehgan talks about his book, “The Snow Leopard Project … and other Adventures in Warzone Conservation”.

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Episode 24-32 How Data Happened ???

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2024/08/07

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Columbia professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones about their book, “How Data Happened … A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms.” Then it’s all about glucose at Rezolute – too much and too little. Nevan Charles Elam tells us about their work in treating the “diabetic eye condition”, DME, and a pediatric condition called congenital hyperinsulinism.

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Episode 24-31 How Data is Revolutionizing...

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2024/08/01

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Bruce Schoenfeld, journalist and author of “Game of Edges …The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports.”, about the data revolution in professional sports.

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Episode 24-30 The Website Race to go Viral

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2024/07/26

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Semafor Editor-in-Chief and former founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, Ben Smith, about his book, “Traffic … Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion Dollar Race to Go Viral”. Then, Dr. Peter Diamandis, The Executive Chair of the XPrize Foundation, and host of the Moonshots podcast, about extending your life, with his book, “Longevity… Your Practical Playbook on Sleep, Diet, Exercise, Mindset, Medications, and Not Dying from Something

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