On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
DR. AJIT VARKI talks about Denial answering the
question, why did humans develop such complex mental abilities and
other species did not?
Than on BioTech Nation, a biotech company which started on a
cocktail napkin and addressing the challenge of getting everyone
in the world vaccinated quickly and cheaply.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
SARA ELIZABETH RICHARDS about Motherhood Rescheduled, women
actually freezing their own eggs.
Then on BioTech Nation, protecting our annual flu shots from
sometimes missing a strain, and on BioIssue of the Week, David Ewing
Duncan tells us all about the micro biome, a hundred trillion
critters in each of us.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
GUNNAR CARLSSON, a professor of mathematics at Stanford University
and co-founder of Ayasdi about Big Data.
Then on BioTech Nation, we hear from DR. JOHN BEADLE, the CEO of
Psioxus Therapeutics in Oxford, England. They're working on
oncolytic viruses , viruses which invade and kill cancer cells,
while ignoring all others.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
MARIO LIVIO about Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein and their
Colossal Mistakes.
Then on BioTech Nation, all that's meaningful about gene patents,
and the latest Supreme Court decision.

On this week's Tech Nation,
Tech Nation broadcasts from the international biotechnology
conference; BIO 2013 in Chicago. How is the world of biotechnology
changing? And how will this affect healthcare? These and other
topics are all covered in this full-hour show.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
GARY SHAPIRO, President of the Consumer Electronics Association.
He talks about ninja innovationî in the today's tsunami of
technology.
Then on BioTech Nation, a new way to control our cholesterol based
on the DNA of very low cholesterol human beings. And on BioIssue of
the Week a new poll measuring our understanding of science.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
DR. BRIAN FAGAN the rising Ocean and What the Earth looked like during
the Ice Age, as opposed to today and what will it look like in the
years to come
Then on BioTech Nation, with 90 million smokers and former smokers in the US, a DNA diagnostic for the number one cancer, lung cancer.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
New York Times journalist Margalit Fox about The
Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code.
Then on BioTech Nation Britain's National Health Service makes a
commitment to using a patients whole genome in their healthcare.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
DANIEL DENNETT about tools to help us improve our thinking, warning
signals when someone is introducing false logic, and other
challenges in human communication.
Then on BioTech Nation Ö we talk about prostate cancer and the
efforts of BN-Immunotherapeutics to address this challenge.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Computer scientist and musician, JARON LANIER, about the
technological aspects of Who Owns the Future?î
Then on BioTech Nation, we talk about Duschene
Muscular Dystrophe, and an approach which may offer real hope.