Aspen Ideas to Go
Aspen Ideas to Go is a show about bold ideas that will open your mind. Featuring compelling conversations with the world’s top thinkers and doers from a diverse range of disciplines, Aspen Ideas to Go gives you front-row access to the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Philosophy
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News Commentary
Spirituality
Technology
Psychology
Politics
Society & Culture
Education
Culture
Social Sciences
Science
Health
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 562
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Off Stage 11: Saving the African Elephant
The African elephant, the world’s largest land mammal, is threatened by poaching, human development, and climate change. As director of the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services Branch of the UN Envir…
00:14:57 |
Fri 07 Dec 2018
Off Stage 10: A Sinking Island Nation
Rising sea level and contaminated fresh water could make an island paradise in the Indian Ocean uninhabitable. The effects of climate change on the Maldives are difficult to ignore. Maldivian climate…
00:22:04 |
Fri 07 Dec 2018
Off Stage 9: Wonder Drugs in the Arctic
Will a cure for cancer be found in the North Pole? A group of Norwegian scientists are scouring the sea and shore in one of the harshest climates on earth, looking for wonder drugs. Writer Kea Krause…
00:18:40 |
Fri 07 Dec 2018
Atul Gawande on Love, Death, and Worth
Famed writer and surgeon Atul Gawande believes there’s a gap between our aspiration for how we treat each other and the reality. In this divisive era, it’s especially challenging to see that all live…
Tue 04 Dec 2018
Technology Is Changing How We Trust
Technology is changing who and how we trust. While our faith in institutions such as governments, media, and charities has hit an all-time low, many of us will rent a complete stranger’s home, exchan…
00:50:31 |
Tue 27 Nov 2018
Can Character Be Learned?
Why is it so hard to watch our children fail? Why might a highly structured life for a child be a bad thing? And how important is our behavior, as adults, in the development of a child? In this episo…
00:35:29 |
Tue 20 Nov 2018
What Would the Founders Think of Today's America?
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson. What were America’s Founders like as individuals? And what would they think of American democracy today? In this lighthearted conversation, Nation…
00:52:25 |
Wed 14 Nov 2018
The New Science of Psychedelics
Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, focuses on psychedelic drugs in his most recent book. How to Change Your Mind dives into the latest developments in trials u…
00:58:34 |
Tue 06 Nov 2018
Stopping Hate in an Era of Fragmentation
The deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue is the latest hate crime in an especially atrocious period. The number of hate crimes against religious minority communities has surged in recent years, …
00:52:15 |
Tue 30 Oct 2018
Off Stage 8: Tackling Twitter’s Bots
Tech entrepreneur Ash Bhat dropped out of high school and college to pursue digital projects. The 20-year-old’s latest effort: combatting online bots, or Twitter accounts with no human oversight. It’…
00:15:56 |
Fri 26 Oct 2018
Off Stage 7: How to Get off Your Screen
Tristan Harris, former Google design ethicist, says the apps we use on our devices everyday are designed to maximize screen time. “Whenever we use these products, we’re activating supercomputers poin…
00:19:55 |
Fri 26 Oct 2018
Off Stage 6: The Menace of Disinformation
With the midterm elections around the corner, should internet users be on alert for fake news? As research director at New Knowledge, Renee DiResta investigates the spread of disinformation across so…
00:21:00 |
Fri 26 Oct 2018
The Cultural Revolution We Need
The forces of division have been tearing America's social fabric for decades. Our country is now dealing with isolation, alienation, and tribalism. But a new coalition of community builders with a ne…
00:56:56 |
Tue 23 Oct 2018
How to Lead a More Meaningful Life at Work
Adam Grant is exploring “how to make work suck less.” For his podcast WorkLife, he visited unconventional companies to discover how to improve the work experience. Grant, who authored Give and Take a…
00:56:24 |
Tue 16 Oct 2018
Getting In: College Access for All
In June, the University of Chicago announced it will become test-optional. It's the first elite school to do so. The move is part of a bigger effort to expand access to a broader talent pool of well-…
00:47:37 |
Tue 09 Oct 2018
How Women in the Media Are Tackling #MeToo
News reporters have covered the #MeToo movement since it gained ground one year ago. But journalists haven’t just written about the movement, some have experienced sexual harassment and violence them…
00:58:07 |
Tue 02 Oct 2018
Off Stage 3: The Year of the Woman
Rebecca Traister’s new book Good and Mad details how women’s anger has erupted into the public conversation. In our first Off Stage interview on women, she tells USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Sus…
00:26:56 |
Tue 02 Oct 2018
Larry Summers on Trade, Tariffs, and the Economy
Former treasury secretary Larry Summers has been vocal about his disagreements with the current direction of US economic policy, particularly in the areas of trade, tariffs, and the rethinking of int…
00:51:28 |
Wed 26 Sep 2018
Off Stage 5: Journalism “More Important than Ever”
In an era when the mainstream media is under attack, New York Times Deputy Managing Editor Rebecca Blumenstein is heartened because more people are paying for news. “Our circulation has almost double…
00:19:56 |
Fri 21 Sep 2018
Off Stage 4: How to Ensure the Survival of Democracy
Global economist Dambisa Moyo says democracy is in crisis around the world. In her book Edge of Chaos, she explains how voter participation rates are low, money is seeping into politics via big donat…
00:18:34 |
Fri 21 Sep 2018
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