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Podcasts of the Show Below!
Recent and Upcoming
NPR “Biotech Nation” (Co-Host)
NPR “Morning Edition” (Commentator)
Nightline, 20/20 (Producer/Correspondent)
PBS NOVA (Correspondent)
Discovery Television
Newspaper Column: “Biotech and Creativity”
Discover Magazine (Contributing Editor)
Wired Magazine (Contributing Editor)
Fortune Magazine
National Geographic
MIT Technology Review
Atlantic Monthly
Harper’s
Believer
USA Today/USA Weekend
Documentaries
Others/Selected Archives
Recent and Upcoming
“Down With Happiness”
Drugs, Implants, Virtual Reality, Do we really want joy 24/7?
Wired Magazine, May, 2007
“How Toxic Are You?”
Interview with Merideth Vieira
Today Show, NBC, October 19, 2006
“The Pollution Within”
David is tested for 321 chemicals inside of him, from DDT to flame retardants.
Where did he get them, and are they dangerous?
National Geographic, October, 2006
“The Obesity Gene”
PBS NOVA’s ScienceNow! (Correspondent),
Airs November 13, 2006
“Discovering the Pollution Within Our Bodies”
Interview with Lynn Neary
NPR’s Morning Edition, October 19, 2006
“Toxic People”
Interview with Miles O’Brien,
Transcript
American Morning, CNN, October 19, 2006
“Eating Super-Molecules to Live Longer”
Discover Magazine, September, 2006
“Can you live to be 150?”
Meet two scientists who think their research may lengthen your life.
USA Weekend, September 10, 2006
Q&A with Bioethicist Art Caplan
MIT Technology Review, September, 2006
"Can This Plant Transform Indian Pharma? Drug Discovery in India"
Fortune Magazine, October, 2005
"The Covert Plague: Diabetes and the rise of insulin resistance"
Discover Magazine, December, 2005
NPR Biotech Nation (Co-Host)
Every week we broadcast a new show on leading-edge biotech topics... Listen in or
download podcasts!
Co-host: David Ewing Duncan, with host Moira Gunn
Airs weekly on 200 NPR affiliates and in 133 Nations, and on Sirius Satellite
For more info and podcasts go to the
Biotech Nation Website
To Download Biotech Nation to your cell phone –
click here.
“BioIssue of the Week” with David Ewing Duncan and Dr. Moira Gunn
Debuted April 25, 2006
Shows coming this summer on bioprospecting and biopiracy, the desperate state of
science education in the US, and more… check your local NPR listings for times in
your area… KQED in San Francisco airs the show at 10 pm Sunday nights.
Some Recent Shows…
July 11, 2006
TV commercials for prescription drugs
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Summer Break (reruns)
June 13, 2006
We’re still waiting for truly personalized medicine
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June 6, 2006
Some promise in stem cells, but its still a very young science
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May 30, 2006
Socialites gather to support the stalled California stem cell initiative
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May 23, 2006
Hoped for biotech breakthroughs in malaria
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May 16, 2006
Can we live to be 150 years old? The genetics of aging – and why red wine is good
for you
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May 9, 2006
How personality drives scientific discovery
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May 2, 2006
The economics of the biotech industry
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April 25, 2006…
Review of President Bill Clinton address on biotech
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Podcast
Go to the Biotech Nation website for more shows…
*We are working on offering David’s segments on Biotech Nation as separate
podcasts; for now, fast-forward to his segment on each week’s podcast.
NPR “Morning Edition (Commentator)
Highlights and Favorites:
David Interviewed by Renee Montaigne
About his book: The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with My DNA
NPR, Morning Edition, June 23, 2005
"Godsend and Cloning"
NPR's "Morning Edition", Aired June 19, 2005
”Thinking Is Doing with Cyborg Technology”
NPR Morning Edition, aired March 14, 2005
“Full DNA Rundown Can Predict Future Health”
NPR Morning Edition, aired October 28, 2002
“San Francisco Bust: The Dot-Com Crash”
NPR Morning Edition, aired June 14, 2001
Reflecting on the International AIDS Conference.
NPR Morning Edition, aired July 14, 2000
David Interviewed by Weekend Edition
About his book: Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and
Accurate Year
NPR Weekend Edition, Aired April 11, 1999
David Interviewed by Robert Siegel
About the Coming Millennium and Calendars
NPR All Things Considered, aired July 14, 1998:
ABC Nightline, 20/20 (Producer/Correspondent)
Highlights and Favorites
“Goldrush.com”
Two-part documentary on the crash of dot-coms
Transcript Part 1 &
Part 2 – video to
come
Description of program on abc.com
ABC Nightline, aired May 9-10, 2001
“Search for a Maya King”
Reporting from Guatemala with Hugh Downs
Video to come
ABC 20/20, aired October 13, 1998
“The Millennium Is Here”
Reporting from Rome
Video to come
ABC Nightline, aired January 2, 1997
The Y2K Bug
Video to Come
ABC Nightline, aired January 1, 1997
“Intern”
Two-Part documentary tracking a medical resident for 36 hours
Video to come
ABC Nightline, aired September 16 and 17, 1996
“Anatomy of a Hospital Bill”
Transcript
– video to come
ABC Nightline, aired 1993
PBS NOVA’s ScienceNow! (Correspondent)
“The Obesity Gene”
Transcript and video to come
NOVA’s ScienceNow! (Correspondent), Airs November 13, 2006
Discovery Television
Sky Archeology: Discovering Lost Cities from Space
Co-producer and director with Koch Television
An expedition to find a lost Maya city in the jungles of Guatemala using satellites
The Learning Channel, (Global distribution, 30 countries), first aired August 23,
1998
Newspaper Column: “Biotech and Creativity
The column ran twice a month in the San Francisco Chronicle, 2003-2005, and
now runs periodically
"Tracking Genes in
Iceland", October 19, 2003
(Preview)
"Biotech on the Brink of
Breakthroughs", February 22, 2004
"When New Science Ignites a
Firestorm", February 23, 2004
"Return of Dr. Faust presents important lessons for
scientists", March 8, 2004
"Altered genes in worms may mean longer lives for
humans", March 22, 2004
"Without a genetic fix, the banana may be history",
April 5, 2004
Hollywood takes a look at cloning, April 19, 2004
"Alice goes to the land of biotech", June 13, 2004
"Is U.S. leadership in science now over?", June 27,
2004
"Trying to save the world on a shoestring budget",
July 11, 2004
"Why a cautious scientist supports the stem cell
research initiative", July 25, 2004
"Francis Crick left us valued lessons for life",
August 8, 2004
"Coming very soon: An "Enhanced Olympics", August
22, 2004
"Venter's goal is creating life in the
laboratory", September 19, 2004
"Now welcome to the California Republic of
Science", October 3,
2004
"How many trillions for a drug miracle?" October 17, 2004
"Scientific progress can't be put back in the
box, October 31, 2004
"Quadriplegic fitted with brain sensor ushers in
cybernetic age", December 5,
2004
"Bio-Babel blockades scientific dialogue", December 19, 2004
"This year bio-science must start to get real", January 16, 2005
"Outrage today, normality tomorrow", February 6, 2005
"Hunt for the 'thrifty gene' leads to a south seas
island", February 20, 2005
"Mr. Hyde is in remission, Soviet biowar designer now
is a professor in the U.S.", March 6, 2005
Call it systems biology -- it's a revolutionary idea with a clunky label... Determining why some people get sick and others don't
points to preventive health care", April 3, 2005
"Bush no match for science in debate over stem cells", May 29, 2005
David is taking a break from writing the column; look for it to start up again soon.
Discover Magazine (Contributing Editor)
“Super-Molecules that Extend Lifespan”
Discover Magazine, September, 2006
"The Covert Plague: Diabetes and the rise of insulin resistance"
Discover Magazine, December, 2005
"Doug Melton: Crossing Boundries"
Serialization from David's book, The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with My DNA
Discover Magazine, June, 2005
Frontiers of Science
Short Articles from Special 25th Anniversary Issue – See Below
Discover Magazine, October, 2005
“Longevity: Forever Young: Controlling appetite with a pill may incidentally lengthen
life”
“Genome: DNA Zip Codes for Disease”
“Infectious Disease: The Bug's War on Drugs: Bacteria, HIV and other pathogens
are fighting back”
Dialogues Column
Discover Magazine
James Watson, July, 2003
Baroness Susan Greenfield, September, 2003
George Whitesides, December, 2003
Cynthia Kenyon, February, 2004
Sydney Brenner, April, 2004
Craig Venter, December, 2004
Paul Berg, April, 2005
“20 Biotech geniuses to Watch”
Discover Magazine, July, 2002
Wired Magazine (Contributing Editor)
“Down With Happiness”
Drugs, Implants, Virtual Reality, Do we really want joy 24/7?
Wired Magazine, May, 2007
"Do-or-Die at Yucca Mountain"
Wired Magazine, April, 2003
Named as a runner up for the Houghton-Mifflin Best Science and Nature Stories,
2004
"Me Two"
News flash from the future about cloning
Wired Magazine, April, 2003
”DNA as Destiny”
David has several hundred of his own genetic markers tested for disease in this
award-winning article
Wired Magazine, November, 2002
Winner of
AAAS Science Journalism Award, 2003
Selected for
Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2003
Houghton-Mifflin, edited by Richard Dawkins
“The Protein Hunters"
Wired Magazine, April, 2001
Fortune Magazine
"Can This Plant Transform Indian Pharma? Drug Discovery in India"
Can India become a major player in pharma drug discovery?
Fortune Magazine, October, 2005
Winner, SOPA Award for Excellence as part of a special Fortune Issue on India
(SOPA – Society of Asian Publishers, the Asian Pulitzer)
National Geographic
“The Pollution Within”
David is tested for 321 chemicals inside of him, from DDT to flame retardants.
Where did he get them, and are they dangerous?
National Geographic, October, 2006
MIT Technology Review
"Q&A with Bioethicist Art Caplan”
MIT Technology Review, September, 2006
"Wired to Eat: Discovering why so many people on a small island in Micronesia are
overweight could explain the genetics of obesity."
MIT Technology Review, July, 2005
This article was the lead story in an issue named as a finalist in the National
Magazine Awards
"Implanting Hope," about brain implants that allow a quadriplegic to operate
machines using thought
MIT Technology Review, February 2005
Atlantic Monthly
“Africa, the long goodbye: the world has failed in Africa, and seems to be losing
interest”
Atlantic Monthly
“La Layenda Negra – The Black Legend – has vilified Spain for centuries. Is it
finally being put to rest?
"
Article to come
Atlantic Monthly
Harper’s
“Is this any way to train a doctor?”
A personal story of being married to a medical resident
Article to come
Harper’s. April, 1993
Believer
Craig Venter Interview
The renegade genius of genetics
Believer, May, 2005
(Check my Blog describing this literary magazine, May 5, 2005)
Kari Stephanson Interview
The Viking as Geneticist
Believer, June, 2003
USA Today/USA Weekend
"Can You Live to Be 150?"
USA Today Weekend
“Two scientists chase the Fountain of Youth”
USA Today Weekend, September, 2006
"Five Miracle Treatments Headed Your Way"
USA Today Weekend, June 17-19, 2005
“The Calendar”
USA Today Weekend, December, 2005
Documentaries
“Goldrush.com”
Two-part documentary on the crash of dot-coms
Transcript Part 1 &
Part 2 – video to
come
Description of program on abc.com
ABC Nightline, aired May 9-10, 2001
“Intern”
Two-Part documentary tracking a medical resident for 36 hours
Video to come
ABC Nightline, aired September 16 and 17, 1996
Sky Archeology: Discovering Lost Cities from Space
Co-producer and director with Koch Television
An expedition to find a lost Maya city in the jungles of Guatemala using satellites
The Learning Channel, (Global distribution, 30 countries), first aired August 23,
1998
Other/Selected Archives
"The Arrogant Adventurer: Craig Venter... has plenty of new ambitions..."
The Sunday Telegraph (UK), May, 2005
"Finding the Fountain of Youth: Where will USCF biochemist Cynthia Kenyon's
age-bending experiments with worms lead us?" Excerpt from The Geneticist Who
Played Hoops with My DNA
San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Cover Story, May 29, 2005
“The Pursuit of Longevity". Long-lived worms tantalize researchers with the
promise of extended life.”
Acumen Journal of Life Sciences July/August, 2003
"The Year Ahead" Issue
Acumen Journal of Life Sciences, January, 2004
Profiles of Trend Setters:
Edison Liu
Steve Holtzman
Corey Goodman
Tom Cech
Stanley Falkow
Heino von Prondzynski
Mark McClellan
Susan Greenfield
Carl Feldbaum
"The Banana Crusade" GMO Bananas May Save a Major Food Staple of the Poor
in the
Developing World
SEED Magazine, July/August, 2003
