Gweek podcast 141: The Remedy

Mark Frauenfelder 10:03 pm Wed Apr 9, 2014

In each episode of Gweek, Dean Putney and I invite a guest to join us in a discussion about recommended media, apps, and gadgets. Our guest this week is Thomas Goetz. He is a science journalist and healthcare innovator. He’s the entrepreneur-in-residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, he’s also co-founder of the health technology company, Iodine. The former executive editor of Wired, Thomas’s writing has been selected repeatedly for the Best American Science Writing and Best American Technology Writing anthologies. His new book is called The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis.

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