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Episode 14-22 Tech Nation: Being a Scientist can be Dangerous Aug 25, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Geneticist SEAN CARROLL about Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize.
Then on BioTech Nation, how decoding the human genome affects the durgs of our future, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, it's Google vs. Death.

Episode 14-23 Tech Nation: Sneaking into Math Class Aug 21, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor EDWARD FRENKEL about sneaking into math classes at Moscow University and how mathematics is everywhere in our lives.
Then on BioTech Nation, DR. DAVID MARTIN from AvidBiotics talks about the CDC's new report on antibiotic resistance.

Episode 14-24 Tech Nation: Guns, Germs and Next Door Neighbours Aug 21, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with JARED DIAMOND about The World Until Yesterday: What We Can Learn from Traditional Societies
Then on BioTech Nation, a drug for later stage Multiple Sclerosis and on BioIssue of the Week, technology becomes your new personal physician.

Episode 14-25 Tech Nation: Guns, Germs and Next Door Neighbors Aug 21, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Aneesh Chopra, the first Chief Technology Officer for the United States. He's here today with Innovative State , How New Technologies Can Transform Government
And on BioTech Nation, the new vaccines and how we get them to everyone young, old, rich and poor, and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, the top innovations of 2013 from the Cleveland Clinic.

Episode 14-26 Tech Nation: Big Data changes Education Aug 21, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with KENNETH CUKIER, the Data Editor at The Economist. He tells us about
Learning with Big Data and The Future of Education
Than on BioTech Nation, a biotech company which started on a cocktail napkin and addressing the challenge of getting everyone in the world vaccinated quickly and cheaply.

Episode 14-28 Tech Nation: Disruptive Technology and Disruptive Science Aug 20, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Regis Kelly from the University of California in San Francisco for Quantitative Biosciences, which nutures disruptive technology.
And on BioTech Nation, one cancer pharmaceuticals company focused on disruptive science.

Episode 14-29 Tech Nation: Big Data and Concussion Aug 19, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the National Football League turns to science to work on head trauma. I speak with three scientists collaborating on a concussion imaging study funded by the General Electric/NFL Head Health Challenge. What data do they collect? What are they looking at? And what are they looking for.
Gunnar Carlsson, Pek Lum and Adam Ferguson. Dr. Carlsson is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University, and co-founder of the data analytics firm Ayasdi, where Dr. Pek Lum is the Chief Data Scientist. With Adam Ferguson from the UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Centre, they talk about their work analyzing brain images of concussions.
Then on BioTech Nation, it's BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan. If we decode our brains, can we decode our minds?
And on BioTech Nation, one cancer pharmaceuticals company focused on disruptive science.

Episode 14-30 Tech Nation: Different Medicines for Different DNA Worldwid Aug 19, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Rogerio Ribeiro from global pharmaceutical firm GSK. He'll tell us and how genetics and medical needs differ globally, one size does not fit all. And we go to Russia to visit a new Biomedical Cluster.
Then on BioTech Nation, a new report on India and on BioIssue of the Week with David Ewing Duncan, the surprising role of microbes in your mouth.

Episode 14-31 Tech Nation: Privacy Ninja's ??? Aug 19, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with the Chief Privacy Officer at McAfee, and her book "The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto".
Then on BioTech Nation, DR. JOHN BEADLE from PsiOxus Therapeutics in Oxford on their progress in colorectal and ovarian cancers - they were actually able to take pictures.

Episode 14-32 Tech Nation: Everyday Creativity Lessons from Pixar Aug 19, 2014

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On this week's Tech Nation, Moira speaks with ED CATMULL, the President of Pixar Animation. He's talking about creativity, but also creativity when your 80% done, they lost both the main files and the back-up files to Toy Story.
Then on BioTech Nation, a new approach to recovery from hip fracture from both biotech-supported advanced nutrition and what it takes to build muscles.

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