TechNation Radio Podcast

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Oxford University professor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger & Kenneth
Cukier (pronounced ìCook-eee-ayeî) about their book BIG DATA A
Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think.
Then on BioTech Nation, a new cream for treating the burns from
radiation therapy, and on BioIssue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan
talks about collecting big data from social media tools.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
New York Times tech journalist MATT RICHTEL on his fictional sci-
tech thriller: The Cloud.
Then on BioTech Nation, the 2012 Biotech Industry wrap-up with
Steven Burrill, the CEO of Burrill & Co. Did biotech fall off the
fiscal cliff ???

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
University of Washington professor David Montgomery on the
beginnings of geology, and the centuries-old search for evidence of
Noah's flood.
And on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, how science can
now change us from optimistic to pessimistic, and back again.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
PO BRONSON about his book Top Dog : The Science of Winning and
Losing.
Then on BioTech Nation, something for the 27 million Americans who
suffer from osteoarthritis and on BioIssue of the Week, David Ewing
Duncan see new bioethical challenges for professional sports.

On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
Former San Francisco mayor and California Lieutenant Governor GAVIN
NEWSOM on reinventing government in the digital age.
Then on BioTech Nation, an anti-serum to fight bio-terrorism
right out of a Veterinary School and on BioIssue of the Week, David
Ewing Duncan quotes Shakespeare and and yes, it involves DNA.

On this weekís Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
FRANCIS COLLINS, the Director of the National Institutes of Health,
speaking about the 125-year-old origins of NIH, and then DAVID
WILLETTS, the UK Minister for Universities and Science. He tells us
about the special innovation relationship between the US and Great
Britain, from genetics to healthcare to space.
Then on BioTech Nation a new approach to Acute Kidney Injury, a
serious condition affecting millions of hospitalized patients each
year.

DANIEL PINK about how we all sell even if don't know it.
Then on BioTech Nation, a drug thatís possibly better than statins,
and on BioIssue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan has a first: David
interviews Moira.

On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with:

JARED DIAMOND
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author
Guns, Germs and Steel and
The World Until Yesterday: What We Can Learn from Traditional Societies?

Then on BioTech Nation:

SIMON WILKINSON
Director and CEO, Innate ImmunoTherapeutics

.. a drug for later stage Multiple Sclerosis ..

And on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan:

On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with:

RICK SMOLAN
Photojournalist and Author, The Human Face of BIG DATA

Then on BioTech Nation:

DR. JEFF STEIN
President and CEO, Trius Therapeutics
.. a new kind of antibiotic ..

And on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan:

.. how science can build a better you ..

On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with:

KEITH DEVLIN
NPR’s Math Guy
Author, “The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic revolution”

Then on BioTech Nation:

MICHAEL ZHANG
16-year-old high school junior
Participant, 2011 International BIO Gene-ius Challenge
.. A Better treatment for Cystic Fibrosis ..

And on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan:

.. David publicly releases his full genome ..