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June 24, 2003: The First of Three in our Summer Archive Series
"Dilbert and Then Some... "
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Today's Interview: Scott Adams
Creator, "Dilbert"
Author, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Scott Adams,the creator of the cartoon "Dilbert," which appears in 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries and 19 languages. They'll talk about his new book "Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel."
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Second Interview: Mickey Connolly
Founder, Conversant
Author: The Communication Catalyst
Moira will also speak with Mickey Connolly, Together with Richard Rianoshek, they founded Conversant, and they've written the book: "The Communication Catalyst." If you think no one is in charge any more at your organization, you may be right.
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June 17, 2003
"18th Century Global... "
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Today's Interview: Christopher Benfey
Professor, Mount Holyoke College
Author, The Great Wave
... Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics and the Opening of Old Japan
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Mount Holyoke professor Christopher Benfey about the surprising interchange of culture and science between Boston and Japan in the late 1800's. They'll speak of how this exchange ultimately led to the first Nobel Peace Prize.
Second Interview: Chet Raymo
Professor Emeritus, Stonehill College
Author: The Path...A One-Mile Walk Through the Universe
Moira will also speak with Chet Raymo, a Professor Emeritus at Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts. They'll discuss how this village started as untamed wilderness, developed into a noisy industrial age town and ultimately became the quiet modern-day commuter town it is today. They'll look at the role that technology has played in every step along the way.
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June 10, 2003
"Persuasive Technology... "
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Today's Interview: B.J. Fogg
Founder, Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University
Author, Persuasive Technology
... Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with B.J. Fogg, an experimental psychologist and the founder of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University. He'll tell us about our persuasion profile, and what role computers now play changing what we think and do.
Moira will also speak with Dr. Matt Ridley, the author of "Nature Via Nurture." They'll talk about why there was such a fracas when it was discovered that humans didn't have 100,000 genes, but rather a mere 30,000.
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June 3, 2003
"Ultimate Fitness... "
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Today's Interview: Gina Kolata
Science Reporter, The New York Times
Author, Ultimate Fitness ... The Quest for Truth about Exercise and Health
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Gina Kolata, a science reporter for the New York Times. She'll talk about her research into what science tells us about exercise, health and weight loss.
Second Interview: Gail Evans
CNN's first female executive vice president
Author: She Wins, You Win
... The Most Important Rule Every Businesswoman Needs to Know
Moira will also speak with Gail Evans, CNN's first female executive vice president. While at CNN Evans helped to create "CNN & Co," "Talk Back Live," and "Burden of Proof," and she'll look at women and modern business.
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May 27, 2003
"The Writing's the Thing ... "
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Today's Interview: Harlan Coben
Winner, The Edgar Award, Shamus Award and Anthony Award
Historian & Author, No Second Chance
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Harlan Coben, about the challenges of writing modern day fiction as technology gains momentum every day. Coben is the first person to win the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award and the Anthony Award, and you'll be surprised to learn when he does - and doesn't - use a computer.
Second Interview: Ellen Ullman
Techno-Social Observer
Author: The Bug
Moira will also speak with Ellen Ullman, known best for her memoir "Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents." Now, she goes one step further and writes fiction reflecting the technologist's milieu. That's right - her new thriller revolves around a pesky intermittent bug.
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May 20, 2003
"Religion and Science"
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Today's Interview: Doug Rushkoff
Professor of Communications, New York University
Author, Media Virus,
Coercion, and
Nothing Sacred...The Truth about Judaism
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Doug Rushkoff, a Professor of Communications at New York University. Best known as the author of such books as "Media Virus" and "Coercion," he's here today with "Nothing Sacred ... The Truth about Judaism." It examines the relationship between religion and spirituality in the age of modern man.
Second Interview: James Watson
Nobel Laureate for discovery the structure of DNA
Author: DNA ... The Secret of Life
and The Double Helix
Moira will also speak with James Watson, who with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for discovery the structure of DNA. Moira will ask him about his early background as well as his recollection of Rosalind Franklin, a name that if you don't already know, it is unlikely you will forget.
Also see: Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox.
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May 13, 2003
"What a Headache!"
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Today's Interview: Dr. David Buchholz
Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Historian & Author, Heal Your Headache
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Dr. David Buchholz, the longtime Director of the Neurological Clinic at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. We'll find out what science knows about your headaches - and also, why what you've already tried may not have worked.
Second Interview: Dr. Michael Rosenzweig
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Author: Win-Win Ecology
Moira will also speak with Dr. Michael Rosenzweig, the founder of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. They'll talk about the concept of Reconciliation Ecology, and what can we realistically expect of our changing world.
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May 6, 2003
"Generations of Scientists"
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Today's Interview: Kitty Ferguson
Historian & Author, Tycho & Kepler:
The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Kitty Ferguson, an historian and the author of "Tycho & Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens." They'll discuss how one generation of scientists sets the stage for another, going all the way back to the late 16th century. This was a time when the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe just didn't buy into what Copernicus had to say, but still made the breakthrough measurements which enabled the next generation's Johannes Kepler to create three scientific laws still with us today.
Second Interview: Henry Chesbrough
Professor, Harvard Business School
Author: Open Innovation:
The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology
Moira will also speak with Henry Chesbrough, a professor and fellow at Harvard Business School. He'll tell us there's a new orientation to innovation afoot, a new, improved way to build a better mousetrap.
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April 29, 2003
"Darwin's Children"
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Today's Interview: Greg Bear
Science Fiction author, Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Greg Bear, the award-winning author of "Darwin's Radio," and its new sequel, "Darwin's Children." They'll talk about society's reaction when viruses emerge that we don't understand, not unlike the global actions now being taken for SARS.
Second Interview: Alan Deutschman
Former Silicon Valley correspondent, Fortune magazine
Author: A Tale of Two Valleys
... Wine, Wealth, and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma
Moira will also speak with Alan Deutschman. Previously the Silicon Valley correspondent for Fortune magazine, he'll tell us about the throngs of technically-hip people who have migrated to California's wine country, seeking the good life, and possibly destroying what made it the good life in the first place.
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April 22, 2003
"Personal Responsibility"
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Today's Interview: Daniel Dennett
Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University
Author: Freedom Evolves
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Daniel Dennett, the Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He'll join Moira to talk about our brains, and even more important, our minds - the larger landscape wherein we make all our decisions.
Second Interview: David Batstone
Professor of Social Ethics, University of San Francisco
Author: Saving the Corporate Soul
Moira will also speak with David Batstone, a Professor of Social Ethics at the University of San Francisco. They will discuss the difference between what illegal versus what's unethical in business today.
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April 15, 2003
"Nifty Lookin' Hydrogen Wheels?..."
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Today's Interview: Peter Schwartz
Chairman, Global Business Network
Expert, Hydrogen-Fueled Vehicles
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Peter Schwartz, the cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network. He'll tell us when we can expect to buy cars fueled by hydrogen.
Second Interview: George Johnson
Science Writer, The New York Times
Author: A Shortcut Through Time...The Path to the Quantum Computer
Moira will also speak with George Johnson, a science writer with The New York Times. He'll talk about the design of a new kind of computer - a quantum computer. And we'll find exactly out why silicon has its shortcomings.
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April 8, 2003
"Personal Challenges..."
(program 03-T19-00014)
Today's Interview: Ed Viesturs
Author: Himalayan Quest ... Ed Viesturs on the 8,000-Meter Giants
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Ed Viesturs, the expedition leader featured in the 1996 IMAX documentary of Everest. They'll talk about the technology he evolved for peak performance and about his personal quest to climb the 12 highest mountains in the world - all without supplemental oxygen.
Second Interview: James Swain
Gambling Expert
Author: Sucker Bet
Moira will also speak with gambling expert James Swain. We'll find out why the high-tech security of Las Vegas casinos became interesting to the government post 9/11.
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April 1, 2003
"The Constants of Nature..."
(program 03-T19-00013)
Today's Interview: Dr. John Barrow
Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge
Author: The Constants of Nature ... From Alpha to Omega
- the Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe
On this week's Tech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn will speak with Dr. John Barrow, a professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Cambridge. He'll take us from the tiniest atoms to the furthest edge of space, when he when we talk about his book, "The Constants of Nature ... From Alpha to Omega - the Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe." We'll find out how the notion of anything actually being constant has begun to change for scientists everywhere.
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