Tech Nation: July - September 2006
Show Originating on
September 26, 2006
Eileen Gittins
Founder, President & CEO, Blurb, Inc.
Moira speaks with Blurb's EILEEN GITTINS - Finally! The ability to publish professional-quality books! What it took -- and the economic premise behind it ...
... and on BioTech Nation:
PATRICK KELLY
Vice President for State Government Relations
BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization
... on the state of biotech … state-by-state.
The BioTechSpeak "Word of the Day":
"biomarker"
& on "The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... the newly discovered DNA of Neanderthal man … and what it tells us about our origins...
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Show Originating on
September 19, 2006
MICHELLE SLATALLA
New York Times columnist
Author, “The Town on Beaver Creek … The Story of a Lost Community”
Moira speaks with New York Times columnist MICHELLE SLATALLA. She has revisits the repeatedly flood-ravaged Kentucky town of her family's past, a town which the Army Corps of Engineers has now decided to move entirely to higher ground.
... and on BioTech Nation:
DR. PETER LEE
CEO, Commercialization Office (Uniservices)
... on how computers can model biology - the result? King Kong.
The BioTechSpeak "Word of the Day":
ADMET
(Absorption - Distribution - Metabolism - Elimination - Toxicity)
& on "The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... David gets tested for over 300 environmental chemicals, and lands on the pages of National Geographic.
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Show Originating on
September 12, 2006
DR. LOUANN BRIZENDINE
Neuropsychiatrist, UCSF Medical School
Author, “The Female Brain”
Moira speaks with DR. LOUANN BRIZENDINE, the Director of UCSF's Women's and Teen Girl's Mood and Hormone Clinic. “The Female Brain” is not longer a nystery ...
... and on BioTech Nation:
DR. JENNY HARRY
Deputy CEO & Executive Vice President for Diagnostics, Proteome Systems
... on a far more effective test for prostate cancer.
The BioTechSpeak "Word of the Day":
APOPTOSIS (pronounced “ay-pop-tosis”)
& on "The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... the morning after pill – Plan B - now anyone over 18 can buy it over the counter ... and the two female Senators who made it happen
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Show Originating on
September 5, 2006
CHRIS ANDERSON
Editor-in-Chief, Wired Magazine
Author, "The Long Tail”
Moira speaks with Chris Anderson, the Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine. He'll describe what he means by the Long Tail,” and he'll answer the critics.
DR. MARTY NEMKO
Host,
“Work with Marty Nemko” & Expert on Career Change
Moira speaks with Career
Coach Dr. Marty Nemko. He'll tell us how to elongate our careers – since
we'll all be living longer.
... and on BioTech Nation:
DR.
UNA RYAN
CEO, Avant Immunotherapeutics
... on their approach to making better vaccines
The BioTechSpeak "Word of the Day":
BIOSIMILARS
& on "The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... the declining cost of biofuels
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Show Originating on
August 29, 2006
PAUL GOLDSTEIN
Professor, Stanford Law School
Author, “Errors and Omissions”
Moira speaks with Stanford Law Professor PAUL GOLDSTEIN. He takes us from the days of the McCarthy and the blacklisting of the Hollywood community to the issues of today.
... and on BioTech Nation:
IGOR GONDA
CEO, ACRUX
... on the subject of drug delivery through the skin
The BioTechSpeak "Word of the Day":
BIOBANK
& on "The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... brain implants
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Show Originating on
August 22, 2006
DR. STEVEN MILES
Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Medicine
Author, “Oath Betrayed … Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror”
Moira speaks with DR. STEVEN MILES, the Minnesota MD who studied tens of thousands of documents released by the Department of Defense about their military prisons in Iraq, including the famous Abu Draib. What he found was extremely disturbing.
... and on BioTech Nation:
NICK FALK
Manager of Business Development, Marinova
... on the subject of marine biotechnology
The first-ever BioTechSpeak "Word of the Day":
BIOGERONTOLOGY
& on "The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... the fact that one out of six humans is pre-diabetic.
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Show Originating on
August 15, 2006
FRANK DELANEY
Former BBC Correspondent
Author, “Simple Courage … A True Story of Peril on the Sea”
Moira speaks with FRANK DELANEY, the author of “Simple Courage.” He talk about the true story of the SS Flying Enterprise and her captain Kurt Carlsen in 1951, the first global news story of the modern media era.
... and on BioTech Nation:
STEPHEN HALL
Chief Executive, Genesis R&D
Stephen Hall, the Cheif Executive of New Zealand's Genesis R&D, talks about new fuels for bio-refineries, including the shrub willow as a replacement for corn.
& on "The BioIssue of the Week"
with science journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... looks at the battle between Intelligent Design and Science.
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Show Originating on
August 8, 2006
GEOFF NUNBERG
Fresh Air's Resident Linguist
Author, “Talking Right … How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show”
Moira speaks with GEOFF NUNBERG, Fresh Air's resident linguist and chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. He'll show us how Conservatives have created a language for Liberals, and used the media to do it.
PETER HESSLER
Beijing Correspondent
The New Yorker
Author, “Oracle Bones … A Journey Between China's Past and Present”
PETER HESSLER, the Beijing Correspondent for The New Yorker, talks about his experience in China, where today more people are learning English, then there are Americans in America.
... and on BioTech Nation:
PHIL LUTON
UK Health Protection Agency
PHIL LUTON will tell us about the first non-US research organization to be approved for biodefense and bioterrorism since 9/11.
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Show Originating on
August 1, 2006
JULIA NOVY-HILDESLEY
Executive Director, The Lemelson
Foundation
Moira speaks with JULIA NOVY-HILDESLEY, the Executive Director of The Lemelson Foundation. They'll look at how technology may raise up half the world's population into a new global middle class.
DR. KATHY REICHS
Forensic Anthropologist
Vice
President, American Academy of Forensic Scientists
Author, “Break No
Bones”
Forensic anthropologist DR.
KATHY REICHS talks about Temperance Brennan, the main character in her
books and the weekly television series – “Bones.”
... and on BioTech
Nation:
STEEN
RIISGAARD
President & CEO, Novozymes
STEEN RIISGAARD is the President of Novozymes, the
world's largest producer of biotech enzymes & microorganisms. He ralks
about why their annual report includes Novozymes' environmental record.
& on "The BioIssue of
the Week"
with science
journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
... takes
on the Presidential stem cell veto.
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Show Originating on
July 25, 2006
SY MONTGOMERY
Environmental Journalist
Author, “The Good,
Good Pig”
Moira speaks with
Environmental journalist SY MONTGOMERY. She tells us what Charles Darwin
knew over a century ago – pigs are really smart! Arguably much smarter
than your dog or cat. Sy relates her experience rescuing a tiny runt, who
came to be known as Christopher Hogwood.
DR. KATHY REICHS
Forensic Anthropologist
Vice
President, American Academy of Forensic Scientists
Author, “Break No
Bones”
Forensic anthropologist DR.
KATHY REICHS talks about Temperance Brennan, the main character in her
books and the weekly television series – “Bones.”
... and on BioTech Nation:
DR. NEVILLE McCLENAGHAN
Diabetica Limited
NEVILLE McCLENAGHAN talks about Diabetica Limited's
innovative approach to diabetes and the applicability it might also have
to obesity.
& on "The BioIssue of the Week"
with science
journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
...
unusual efforts to draw more people to science.
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Show Originating on
July 18, 2006
ELIZABETH GROSSMAN
Environmental Journalist
Author, “High Tech
Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics and Human Health”
Moira speaks with
Environmental journalist ELIZABETH GROSSMAN. She dissects the retired
technology we have lurking around the house. From cell phones and pda to
computers, monitors and printers, we'll find out what's in them and what
to do with them.
... and on BioTech
Nation:
VIJAY
SAMANT
Presdient & CEO, Vical Vaccines
Vical Vaccines' VIJAY SAMANT tells us about why there
are so few vaccines and about Vical's efforts to make vaccines that can be
effective in third world environments.
&
on "The BioIssue of the Week"
with science
journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
...
Bioprospecting.
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Show Originating on
July 11, 2006
DR. GLEN ELLIOTT
Director, The Children's Center
Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute
University of California, San Francisco
Author, “Medicating
Young Minds”
Moira speaks with DR. GLEN
ELLIOTT about prescribing psychiatric drugs for kids of all ages – even as
young as four.
... and on BioTech
Nation:
DAVID
ZIMMERMAN
CEO, Kalexsyn
DAVID ZIMMERMAN, the CEO of Kalexsyn. He'll tell us
about Kalamazoo, Michigan, a typical Midwest American town – until all the
plants closed. The answer was biotech.
... and
on "The BioIssue of the Week"
with science
journalist DAVID EWING DUNCAN
In this segment, David discusses those TV commercials
for prescription drugs.
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Show Originating on
July 4, 2006
The
final entry in our Summer Archive Series ...
DR DANIEL WILSON
Expert in Robotics and Data Mining
Author, “How To
Survive a Robot Uprising” 
Moira speaks with DR DANIEL WILSON, who mixes the
popular zeitgeist of robots with their amazing new capabilities. It's all
there in his tongue-in-cheek book, “How To Survive a Robot Uprising.”
PETE FRIEDRICH, KEITH KNIGHT & LLOYD
DANGLE
Professional Cartoonists
Co-Authors, “Roadstrips …
A Graphic Journey Across America” 
Moira also speaks with PETE FRIEDRICH, KEITH KNIGHT & LLOYD
DANGLE. Professional cartoonists, they've collaborated with some two dozen
others to create “Roadstrips … A Graphic Journey Across America.”
...
and on BioTech Nation: DR JIM FRANK
Director of Biotechnology and Biodefense
Applications
Argonne National Laboratories
In this BioTech Nation segment, DR JIM FRANK, the
Director of Biotechnology and Biodefense Applications at Argonne National
Laboratories, talks about the burgeoning field of bio-energy.
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