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Dr Moira Gunn

TechNation Radio hosted by Dr Moira Gunn

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Episode 24-09 Healing from Narcissistic People

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2024/02/29

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks withClinical 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 24-08 Excellent Advice for Living

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2024/02/22

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with 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 esophageal cancer, and about their two-minute diagnostic test which can detect precancerous cells.

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Episode 24-07 In the Mouth of the Wolf

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2024/02/16

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Katherine Corcoran, the former Associate Press Bureau Chief for Mexico, who talks about “In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press”. She talks about the danger of being a journalist in Mexico and one woman who paid the ultimate price. And following news of one biotech firm trying to bring back the dodo bird, we hear from Joe Hernandez from Blue Water Vaccines. His quest to develop a universal flu vaccine led

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Episode 24-06 One Drug, Many Diseases

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2024/02/09

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks withDr. David Fajgenbaum, a Professor at the Pennsylvania School of Medicine and President of Every Cure, talks about his efforts to unlock the hidden potential of existing drugs to save his own life and others. Then, NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce talks about her take on being a science journalist and about her book, “Transient and Strange… Notes on the Science of Life”.

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Episode 24-05 Building Immunity to Misinformation

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2024/01/31

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks withDoctors Andy Norman and Lee McIntyre from the Mental Immunity Project about strengthening your mind’s immunity to misinformation. Then, regular Tech Nation contributor Dr. Alex Pang talks about the difference between sleep and rest – and how that can make a big difference in our lives.

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Episode 24-04 Friction, Good and Bad???

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2024/01/24

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks withStanford Professors, Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao, talk about their book, “The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder.” Then, is your personal technology doing more than you bargained for? Duke University Professor Nita Farahany talks about “The Battle for Your Brain … Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.”

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Episode 24-03 Is There Truly a Global Press???

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2024/01/17

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks withJournalist and CEO of Global Press, Christi Hegranes, talks about her vision of what it really means to have a global press and her book, “Byline: How Local Journalists Can Improve the Global News Industry and Change the World.” Then, Alex Pang, a regular contributor for Tech Nation and author of, ”Rest: Why You Get More Work Done, When You Work Less” tells us how a Four-Day Work Week can work, and Dr. Jim Brown, CEO of DURECT, talks about their clinical

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Episode 24-02 Roads, Roads, and Even More Roads???

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2024/01/10

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Science Journalist Ben Goldfarb about his book, “Crossing: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of our Planet.” Then, Dave Pacitti, President of Siemens Healthineers, sets out to solve problems greater than simply supplying the best technology.

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Episode 24-01 Biotech Beyond Covid

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2024/01/04

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Robert Ang, the President & CEO of Vor Biopharma, about its approach to Acute Myeloid Leukemia, also known as AML. Then, Dr. Nik Sopko, the chief scientific officer of PolarityTE, talked about their design for wound healing. Their first treatment candidate is diabetic foot ulcers, and Dr. Eric Vivier from Innate Pharma in Marseilles tells us about the next wave of immunotherapy treatments – harnessing Natural Killer cells.

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Episode 23-52 Can Every Medicine Be a Pill???

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2023/12/28

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Dr. Stewart Campbell, CEO of Axial Therapeutics, about their groundbreaking work in Autism–related irritability in teenagers, in Parkinson’s, and in complementing the latest cancer treatments. Then Dr. Ray Stevens, CEO of ShouTi Pharma, talks about their approach in turning IV drugs into pills. Current projects include Diabetes and obesity and two Pulmonary and Cardiovascular disorders. And these are just their first candidates …

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Episode 23-51 Science, Technology and Race

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2023/12/20

On this week’s Tech Nation, Dr. Patrice Matchaba, the President of the Novartis US Foundation. He talks about how the limits of medical technology itself have excluded Black/African Americans and Persons of Color … and sometimes *all* women. Then University of Chicago professor Dr Neil Shubin talks about “Some Assembly required … Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA.” Ancient viruses in our DNA? And what about “jumping genes”?

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Episode 23-50 Don’t have any feelings? Think again

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2023/12/14

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with scientist and prolific author Dr. Leonard Mlodinow about “Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking”. Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft tells us who may medically qualify to go into space – you may be surprised by his answers.

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Episode 23- 49 Nuts and Bolts, and Brains???

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2023/12/07

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Structural Engineer Roma Agrawal about her book, “Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way.” Then Nicolas Vachicouras, CEO and Co-Founder of Neurosoft Bioelectronics, takes us on an inside tour of our brain and what flexible implants might do. And Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about the newest XPrize worth an unprecedented $101 Million.

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Episode 23-48 Think Fast, Talk Smart

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2023/11/30

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Business School Lecturer, Matt Abrahams, about his book, “THINK FASTER, TALK SMARTER: How To Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot”. Then, Dr. Steffen-Sebastian Bolz from Aphaia Pharma talks about their new drug, currently in phase 3 trial, that may provide the benefits of Ozempic and Wegovy - without the injection.

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Episode 23-47 Rationality? Too Much to Ask?

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2023/11/24

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Harvard professor experimental cognitive scientist Steven Pinker about “Rationality … What it is, Why it seems scarce, and Why it matters”. Then Lemony Snicket – the one and only. You know him from his children’s book series, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. He’s here with “Poison for Breakfast”. You will start bewildered and leave bewildered, but feeling much better about it.

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Episode 23-46 Big Tech Today

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2023/11/16

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Journalist Alex Kantrowitz about his 2020 book, “Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever” which has spawned his work, as Founder and Editor of Big Technology. Then, Dr. Mark Sumeray, Chief Medical Officer of Amolyt Pharma, talks about their innovative approach to treating hormonal conditions.

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Episode 23-45 It’s All About Cancer, and Covid???

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2023/11/09

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 23-44 Where Will AI Take Us???

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2023/11/02

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Infection AI, about “The Coming Wave … Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma”. Then, Bloomberg columnist Adam Minter talks about his 2019 book, “Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale.” You dropped it off at the thrift store … where does it go from there?

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Episode 23-43 Tech Nation: … Ideas, Ideas, Ideas

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2023/10/25

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Jeremy Utley, the Director of Executive Education at Stanford University’s d.school, joins Moira to talk about his book “IdeaFlow.” You have no idea how important ideas are in your life, and just how many you’ll need! Then in biotech, human clinical trials have begun to treat a particular type of Epilepsy called Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Dr. Cory Nicholas from Neurona Therapeutics tells us about their big idea and how they have developed an unprecedented

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Episode 23-42 Got Free Will???

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2023/10/18

On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky about “Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will”. Then, Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft talks about how Medical Schools decide what to teach.

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