Tech Nation Programs from 2002
Part Two: April - June
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June 25, 2002
"Eating in the Dark " and "WildAid"
(program 02-T19-00026)
First Interview: Kathleen Hart
Health & Environment Journalist
Author: Eating in the Dark ... America's Experiment with Genetically-Engineered Foods
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with health and environment journalist Kathleen Hart. Her book is "Eating in the Dark ... America's Experiment with Genetically-Engineered Foods." She will explore how genetically-engineered foods can be found in 80% of the American food supply.
Second Interview: Dr. Suwanna Gauntlett
Founding Director, WildAid
Moira will also speak with Dr. Suwanna Gauntlett, a founding Director of WildAid. WildAid is a global organization designed to support quick response to wildlife poaching and habitat endangerment. They'll discuss her uncover operations to buy exotic animals in Southeast Asia.
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June 18, 2002
"Opening the Xbox" and "What to do with Your Money Now"
(program 02-T19-00025)
First Interview: Dean Takahashi
Author: Opening the Xbox ... Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Dean Takahashi, a Senior Writer at Red Herring Magazine. He looks at the video game industry in his book, "Opening the Xbox ... Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution." It turns out video games and personal computers are becoming one and the same.
Second Interview: David and Tom Gardner
The Motley Fools Author: What to do with Your Money Now ... Ten Steps to Staying Up in a Down Market
Moira will speak with David and Tom Gardner, the brothers who are better known as the Motley Fools. They're here to talk about investing our money now that the worst is happening.
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June 11, 2002
"Wealth and Democracy" and "The Strategy Machine"
(program 02-T19-00024)
First Interview: Kevin Phillips
Author: Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
Kevin Phillips. You may well have heard his commentaries on NPR's Morning Edition. He's here today with his book, "Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich." Do we have anything to learn from the Industrial Revolution?
Second Interview: Larry Downes
Author: The Strategy Machine: Building Your Business One Idea at a Time
Moira will also speak with Larry Downes. Strategies are everything these days - from huge global businesses to your personal life. Larry Downes will discuss his approach from the book, "The Strategy Machine."
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June 4, 2002
"The Prophet and the Astronomer" and "The Turk"
(program 02-T19-00023)
First Interview: Marcelo Gleiser
Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College
Author: The Prophet and the Astronomer
This week Moira speaks with Marcelo Gleiser. He's the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College, and the author of "The Prophet and the Astronomer ... A Scientific Journey to the End of Time."
Second Interview: Tom Standage
Technology Correspondent, The Economist
Author: The Turk ... The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
Moira will also speak with Tom Standage, the technology correspondent for the Economist. He'll talk about some very old technology, "The Turk," a famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine.
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May 28, 2002
"A Big Life" and "Honoring Stephen Jay Gould"
(program 02-T19-00022)
First Interview: Mary Wells Lawrence
Founder, Wells Rich Greene
Author: A Big Life (in advertising)
This week Moira speaks with Mary Wells Lawrence, the first woman to head a publicly-traded firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange. She and her family just may be the first jet set family, They lived and worked in two different places - Dallas and New York, and they did 30 years ago.
Second Interview: An archive interview, honoring the late
Stephen Jay Gould
Professor of Zoology and Geology, Harvard University
In the second half of our show, we honor the recent passing of the evolutionary biologist, Stephen Jay Gould. In an interview from our archives, he'll talk about baseball, crime statistics and animal technology with his signature curmudgeon humor.
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May 21, 2002
"Total Access" and "Linked ... The New Science of Networks"
(program 02-T19-00021)
First Interview: Regis McKenna
Chairman, The McKenna Group
Author: Total Access
... Giving Customers What They Want in an Anytime, Anywhere World
This week Moira speaks with Silicon Valley marketing legend, Regis McKenna. They'll talk about the idea of corporate trust in the Age of the Internet, as well as his new book, "Total Access ... Giving Customers What They Want in an Anytime, Anywhere World."
Second Interview: Laszlo Barabasi
The Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics
University of Notre Dame
Author: Linked ... The New Science of Networks
Moira will also speak with Laszlo Barabasi. A Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, Barabasi will tell us about the new science of the Internet, an understanding which even includes networks of humans.
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May 14, 2002
"Bad Astronomy" and "Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom"
(program 02-T19-00020)
First Interview: Dr. Phil Plait
Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Sonoma State University
Author: Bad Astronomy
... Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed,
from Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax'
This week Moira speaks with Dr. Phil Plait, whose popular web site examines the earmarks of "bad" science. They'll also talk about his book, "Bad Astronomy ... Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax'."
Second Interview: Lisa Belkin
Columnist, The New York Times
Author: Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom
Moira will also speak with Lisa Belkin. She writes the "Life's Work" column which appears in The New York Times' Job Market section, and she'll discuss the things which matter most to us today, like "Should I take my laptop on vacation?"
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May 7, 2002
"Lusitania ... An Epic Tragedy" and "Raising the Hunley"
(program 02-T19-00019)
First Interview: Diana Preston
Author: Lusitania ... An Epic Tragedy
This week Moira speaks with Diana Preston, Journalist and former BBC and CBC broadcaster, about the epic sinking of the British luxury liner Lusitania by the German submarine "U-20" in the early days of World War I. In addition to drawing from a wide range of international sources, new insight is further gained through modern day computer analysis.
Second Interview: Schuyler Kropf
Journalist, The Post and Courier
Author: Raising the Hunley
... The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine
Moira will also speak with Moira will speak with Schuyler Kropf, a reporter with the Post and Courier in Charleston. Together with Brian Hicks, he's researched and written "Raising the Hunley ... The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine."
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April 30, 2002
"Redesigning Humans" and "Ridin' High, Livin' Free"
(program 02-T19-00018)
First Interview: Dr. Gregory Stock
Director, Program of Medicine, Technology and Society
UCLA School of Medicine
Author: Redesigning Humans ... Our Inevitable Genetic Future
This week Moira speaks with Dr. Gregory Stock, the Director of the Program of Medicine, Technology and Society at the UCLA School of Medicine. They'll talk about his book, "Redesigning Humans ... Our Inevitable Genetic Future."
Second Interview: Sonny Barger
Former President of the Oakland, CA Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
Author: Ridin' High, Livin' Free ... Hell-Raising Motorcycle Stories
Moira will also speak with Sonny Barger, the former, longtime President of the Oakland, California Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. They'll talk about the technology of motorcycles, and about his new book, "Ridin' High, Livin' Free."
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April 23, 2002
"El Niño ... Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker" and "Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa"
(program 02-T19-00017)
First Interview: Madeleine Nash
Senior Science Writer, TIME magazine
Author: El Niño ... Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker
This week Moira speaks with Madeleine Nash about the earth's second largest weather system, second only to the changing of the seasons. It's "El Niño" and it means more than just heavy rain and mudslides in California. El Niño reaches around the globe.
Second Interview: David Breashears
Mountaineer and IMAX Filmmaker
Author: Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa
Moira will also speak with David Breashears, a mountaineer, filmmaker and author. Following on his IMAX film about one teams ascent on Everest, he's back with another IMAX effort and a National Geographic book, "Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa."
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April 16, 2002
"Weird Ideas That Work" and "The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back"
(program 02-T19-00016)
First Interview: Dr. Robert Sutton
Co-Director, Center for Work, Technology and Organization
Stanford University
Author: Weird Ideas That Work ... 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
This week Moira speaks with Dr. Robert Sutton, the Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford University. She'll talk to him about what works for and against creativity, and the author of "Weird Ideas That Work." Moira will explore with him what works for and against creativity.
Second Interview: Kim Chernin
CEO, EdgeWork Books
Author: The Hungry Self, The Obsession,
and her latest novel The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back
Moira will also speak with Kim Chernin, the CEO of EdgeWork Books. A writer with over a dozen published books, they'll discuss the creation of this book publishing and writers on-line community - a model which could work for any community of like interests.
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April 9, 2002
"Light at the Edge of the World" and "Scientific Conversations"
(program 02-T19-00015)
First Interview: Wade Davis
Ethnobotanist and Anthropologist
Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic
Author: Light at the Edge of the World ... A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
This week Moira speaks with Wade Davis about his explorations and his book, Light at the Edge of the World ... A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures.
Second Interview: Claudia Dreifus
Science Journalist, The New York Times
Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute, New School for Social Research
Author: Scientific Conversations ... Interviews on Science from The New York Times
Moira will also speak with Claudia Dreifus about her book, Scientific Conversations ... Interviews on Science from The New York Times, a collection of many of her best interviews for the Science Times with some well-known and some un-known names in science.
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April 2, 2002
"Byte Wars" and "The Diagnosis"
(program 02-T19-00014)
First Interview: Ed Yourdon
Member, Computer Hall of Fame
Author: Byte Wars
... The Impact of September 11 on Information Technology
This week Moira speaks with Ed Yourdon about the Information Technology impact of 9-1-1. Yourdon has been a leader in computer programming for many decades and is a 1997 inductee into the Computer Hall of Fame. His latest book is Byte Wars ... The Impact of September 11 on Information Technology.
Second Interview: Alan Lightman
Professor of Physics, MIT
Author: Einstein's Dreams and
The Diagnosis
Moira will also speak with Alan Lightman, an Adjunct Professor of Physics at MIT and novelist. You may remember his earlier novel, Einstein's Dreams. He's here today with The Diagnosis.
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