Topic: Health and Medicine
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Chip Heath, Stanford Professor in Organizational Behaviour, about his new book, Switch, and learn the key to making real change in our lives, no matter what the change is.
Dr. Moira Gunn delves into the differences between diseases and prevention in Asia with Dr. Edward Holmes, Chair of the National Medical Research Council in Singapore.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the science behind the decision making process, with noted author, Dr. Sheena Iyengar, from the pages of her new book, The Art of Choosing.
On this week's Tech Nation the focus is on the recent International Biotech Conference, BIO 2010 from Chicago. We'll hear from Bob Klein, the BioHumanitarian of the Year, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, who was named BioGovernor of the Year, Wisconsin Governor Jim Boyle, and BIO's president, Jim Greenwood. David Ewing Duncan also reviews what he picked up trolling the hallways.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Director and Chairman of the New England Healthcare Institute, Dr. Josh Boger, about how biotechnology is moving us closer to finding a cure of Cystic Fibrosis.
Dr. Moira Gunn chats with author, Susan Krieger, about her new book, Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side, where she introduces readers to the world of true human-animal interaction.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Mark Emalfarb, CEO of Dyadic International, the entrepreneur who first brought us stonewashed jeans, who now develops novel products from natural proteins, enzymes and polypeptides for the private sector.
Dr. Moria Gunn interviews VP of Business Development for BioAtla, Leslie Hickle about the concept of buying proteins and antibodies in bulk from their manufacturing facility in China.
Linda Stone coined the phrase "continuous partial attention" and has long been concerned about the psychological effects of computers and networked information systems. Now she's exploring the physiological effects too. In this conversation with Jon Udell, she explains what "email apnea" is, and discusses why and how we should learn to regulate our breathing when we work online.
Dr. Moira Gunn celebrates the 10th birthday of decoding the human genome with author and journalist, David Ewing Duncan.
