Show Originating on
May 17,
2005
(program 05-T19-00020)
The long-format Main Interview features three guests:
JENNET CONANT
Journalist & Author, "109 East Palace
… Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos" 
and
KAI BIRD
Journalist
DR. MARTIN
SHERWIN
Tufts University History Professor
Co-Authors, "American
Prometheus … The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" 
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr.
Moira Gunn speaks with a three-member panel about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the
head of the Manhattan project, the secret World War II effort to build the
atomic bomb. Granddaughter of Manhattan project administrator JENNET
CONANT focuses on the experience of Los Alamos, while KAI BIRD and MARTIN
SHERWIN look at Oppenheimer's entire life. You'll find that the panelists
don't always agree.
University of New Orleans
In this BioTech Nation segment, DR. CHARLES O'CONNOR
will tell us where biotechnology and nanotechnology meet. The result is a
new approach for delivering drugs.
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Show Originating on
May 10,
2005
(program 05-T19-00019)
First Interview: DW Buffa
Former Criminal Defense Attorney
Author, "Trial By
Fire" 
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr.
Moira Gunn speaks with f ormer criminal defense attorney DW BUFFA. They'll look
at the impact of modern media on criminal justice, while discussing his
latest novel, "Trial by Fire."
And in
a special long-format BioTech Nation Segment:
Fran Hawthorne
Healthcare & Business Journalist
Author, "Inside the FDA
... The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and The Food We
Eat" 
On this
week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with
healthcare and
business journalist FRAN HAWTHORNE. They'll look at the pressures that
affect the FDA - from big pharma to congress, from everyday American
citizens to the religious right, from its leaders to its scientists...
Show
Originating on
May 3, 2005
(program 05-T19-00018)
First Interview: John Markoff
Senior Writer, Business and Technology
The New York Times
Author, "What the
Dormouse Said: How 60's Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer
Industry" 
On this
week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with
New York Times
Business and Tech Writer, JOHN MARKOFF. They'll look at the start - and
missteps - of the personal computing technology all around us.
Moira also speaks with newcomers
KARL DE ABREW & SAM CHANDLER, who will tell us how they've managed to
build a new cheaper technology. NITRO PDF, which
turns the economic model of Adobe Acrobat on its head.BioTech Nation
Segment:
Elizabeth Holmes
President & CEO, Theranos
In this
BioTech Nation segment, ELIZABETH HOLMES, the President & CEO of
Theranos, will tell us about her patented technology and how it just might
save your life.
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Show Originating on
April 26,
2005
(program 05-T19-00017)
First Interview: Geoffrey Nunberg
Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
Fresh Air pundit
Author, "Going
Nucular" 
On this
week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with
Stanford Professor
GEOFFREY NUNBERG, probably best known to you for his commentary on Fresh
Air. He'll speak with Moira about the new words will - and won't - make it
into the dictionary, almost solely driven by technology.
Moira also speaks with JEFFREY
RAYPORT, a former professor at Harvard Business School. He taught their
first e-Commerce class and originated the concept of "viral marketing."
Now, he talks about how humans can emotionally connect with technology and
buy, buy, buy! (Or if the tech is wrong, they won't, won't, wont.)
BioTech Nation
Segment:
DR. PEGGY LEMAUX
Professor, UC Berkeley
USDA
Agricultural Extension Specialist
UC BioTech Information
In this BioTech Nation segment, DR. PEGGY LEMAUX will
tell us what's been genetically modifed at our supermarkets.
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Show Originating on
April 19,
2005
(program 05-T19-00016)
First Interview: Stephen Yafa
Journalist and Author, "Big Cotton …
How a Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, and Put
America on the Map" 
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr.
Moira Gunn speaks with journalist STEPHEN YAFA on a crop that has been
with us for over 5,000 years: cotton, a crop which continues to
significantly impact the environment. Moira will speak with Stephen Yafa
about his new book "Big Cotton."
Second
Interview: Dean Karnazes
Ultramarathon
Runner and Winner, Badwater Ultramarathon
Author,
Ultramarathon
Man 
Moira also speaks a guy who just
won't stop. With the help of a little technology, DEAN KARNAZES won the
Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley. BioTech Nation Segment:
JERRY SANDERS
Founder and Managing Director,
San Francisco
Science
In this BioTech Nation segment, San
Francisco Science Founder JERRY SANDERS returns to talk about one example
of their unique approach to developing medical technologies: FemSpec.
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Show Originating on
April 12,
2005
(program 05-T19-00015)
First
Interview: Keith Devlin
NPR's Math Guy
& Executive Director,
Stanford's Center for
the Study of Language and Information
Author, "The Math
Instinct … Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds,
Cats, and Dogs)" 
On this
week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks
with NPR's Math Guy KEITH DEVLIN. Believe it or not,
he'll us about the math genius of Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs.
Second
Interview: Rebecca Goldstein
MacArthur
Fellow
Author, Incompleteness:
The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel 
Moira also speaks with REBECCA GOLDSTEIN. She's
written - not just any biography - but the bio of the person whom Albert
Einstein believed was *really* smart.
BioTech Nation
Segment:
JERRY SANDERS
Founder and Managing Director,
San Francisco
Science
In this BioTech Nation segment, San
Francisco Science Founder JERRY SANDERS talks about their unique approach
to developing medical technologies.
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Show Originating on
April 5,
2005
(program 05-T19-00014)
First
Interview: Elizabeth George
Author, The
Inspector Lynley Series
Her latest: With No One As
Witness
and the non-fiction: Write Away
... One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing
Life
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks
with ELIZABETH GEORGE, the best selling author of
over a dozen Inspector Lynley mysteries. You've likely seen them on PBS'
Mystery, but you will ever guess that this where she gets her forensic
science ...
Second
Interview: James Stewart
Former Page One
Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Author, DisneyWar
and the
Pulitzer Prize-winning: Den of
Thieves 
Moira also speaks with JAMES STEWART, the
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of "Den of Thieves." His latest endeavor
takes us inside the wonderful world of "Corporate Disney.".
