Show Originating on
September 27, 2005
(program 05-T19-00039)
ANN WINBLAD
Co-Founding Partner, Hummer-Winblad
Venture Partners
Co-Chair, SD Forum
and
LAURA MERLING,
CEO, SD Forum
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with
software venture capitalist ANN WINBLAD and SD Forum CEO, LAURA MERLING,
about the global reality of both funding new software and then building
it. Is it surprising? All roads lead to Silicon Valley.
PETER
BOATWRIGHT
Professor, Tepper School of
Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Author, “The Design of
Things to Come … How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary
Products” 
Moira also speaks with Carnegie-Mellon’s PETER BOATWRIGHT about
innovation and what it takes to create the total landscape of success.
... and on BioTech
Nation: DR. DAVID GEE
Commercial Director,
MNL
Pharma, Ltd.
In this BioTech Nation segment, DR. DAVID GEE
explains how the simple structures called “imino sugars” may prove
valuable in the fight against everything from diabetes to cancer.
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Show Originating on
September 20, 2005
(program 05-T19-00038)
GRAHAM HAWKES
Ocean
Engineer and Explorer
Record-Holder, Solo Ocean
Dive
President,
Hawkes Ocean Technologies with its Underwater Flight School
On this week's Tech
Nation, Moira speaks with Ocean engineer and explorer, GRAHAM HAWKES.
They’ll talk about his quest to drive a submersible to the very bottom of
the ocean – some seven miles down, as well as the very different
experience of his Underwater Flight
School.
BRAD
MATSEN
National Geographic Producer
Author, “Descent … The
Heroic Discovery of the Abyss” 
Moira also speaks with National Geographic producer BRAD MATSEN.
He'll tell us about the undersea adventure of an earlier time, documented
in his book: “Descent … The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss.”
... and on BioTech Nation: AMIT SACHDEV
Executive Vice President for Health,
BIO - the Biotechnology Industry Association
Show Originating on
September 13, 2005
(program 05-T19-00037)
JOHN WARFIELD SIMPSON
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Natural
Resources
Ohio State University
Author, "Dam! … Water,
Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National
Park”" 
On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JOHN
WARFIELD SIMPSON, as he relates the technical – and political – tale which
enabled the tiny city of San Francisco to dam an entire mountain valley
some 200 miles away, a sister valley to the famous Yosemite – all in the
name of progress.
JAMES
POWELL
Executive Director
National Physical Science Consortium
Author, "Grand Canyon
… Solving Earth’s Grandest Puzzle" 
Moira also speaks with JAMES POWELL, who talks about the controversy
around the beginnings of the Grand Canyon, and the present and future of
its now-aging Glen Canyon dam.
... and on BioTech Nation: ANDERS
ZACHRISSON
Senior Vice President, BioGaia
In this BioTech Nation segment, ANDERS ZACHRISSON
from BioGaia will talk about the scientific studies
looking at probiotics, which are increasing in popularity today from
Scandinavia to Asia.
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Show Originating on
Septembr 6, 2005
(program 05-T19-00036)
ANDREW FRAKNOI
Chairman, Astronomy
Program, Foothill College
On
this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ANDREW FRAKNOI, the chair of
Astronomy at Foothill College, discussing why we’re finding all those new
planets, and the big fight about what’s a planet and what isn’t.
DR.
DANIEL LIEBOWITZ
Author, "The Last
Expedition: Mad Journey through the Congo" 
Moira also speaks with DR. DANIEL LIEBOWITZ, who talks about Henry
Stanley, famous for his line “Dr. Livingston, I presume.” He relates the
story of Stanley’s last and questionable expedition to Africa, what he
calls Stanley's Mad Journey through the Congo.
... and on BioTech Nation: ANDERS
ZACHRISSON
Senior Vice President, BioGaia
In this BioTech Nation segment, ANDERS ZACHRISSON
from BioGaia will talk about “pro-biotics,” the flip
side to antibiotics.
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