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.
Spirituality
Health
News Commentary
Technology
Philosophy
Science
Education
Society & Culture
Psychology
Politics
Culture
Ai
Social Sciences
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 561
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Can You Design a Good Death?
Death is understandably difficult – and for some people, nearly impossible – to conceive of and talk about. Especially our own. It may seem like there’s nothing we can do to prepare for our last mome…
00:49:23 |
Wed 08 May 2024
Katharine Hayhoe on Fighting Climate Change
Climate change is demanding an extraordinarily rapid transformation of human society, and we don’t have a manual. The people who have done the least to cause the problem are the people who will be fe…
00:18:37 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
What Makes a Life Worth Living?
For years, Yale undergraduate students have lined up to take a wildly popular course called Life Worth Living. Bucking the highly competitive tone you might expect at an Ivy League school, the class …
01:21:55 |
Thu 04 Apr 2024
Fighting HIV Around the World
In the late 1990s, HIV and AIDS was killing people in Sub-Saharan Africa at an astonishing rate. Generations of children were growing up without parents and the workforce of civil society was hollowi…
00:51:11 |
Thu 21 Mar 2024
Our Changing World with Thomas Friedman
The world seems to be moving and evolving faster than ever before, and democratic ideals are under threat in many countries around the globe. New York Times columnist and journalist Thomas Friedman h…
00:33:10 |
Thu 07 Mar 2024
Forging a Path to Ethical A.I.
It doesn’t look like we’re going to be able to put the generative artificial intelligence genie back in the bottle. But we might still be able to prevent some potential damage. Tools like Bard and Ch…
00:55:33 |
Thu 22 Feb 2024
Redemption Song?
History has the power to teach us what to do in the present, but do we actually make good use of that tool? Many events in our recent past might suggest otherwise. American history is complex and ful…
00:55:08 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Our Modern Sex Lives
After millennia of human existence, we’re still figuring out and talking constantly about one of our most fundamental behaviors – sex. Despite the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s and the growth …
01:03:22 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
Parenting Teens and Young Adults in Challenging Times
Teenagers and young adults today are dealing with challenges their parents never experienced and couldn’t have prepared for. Nobody has a map and the road to resolution can be bumpy for all involved.…
00:55:30 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
Decoding Animal Communication with A.I.
Scientists could actually be close to being able to decode animal communication and figure out what animals are saying to each other. And more astonishingly, we might even find ways to talk back. The…
00:52:44 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
The Hot Truth About Menopause
Menopause is a normal phase of life, but can nonetheless be a challenging and confusing time for women reaching middle age. As a culture, we talk about the details of menopausal transition very littl…
00:51:37 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
From King Lear to Succession with Brian Cox
William Shakespeare started writing plays in an era when popular theater was exploding and cementing its place in culture. Audiences spanned economic classes, professions and educational backgrounds,…
00:59:39 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
Arthur Brooks on Managing Your Emotions
Living a happy life isn’t as simple as having a smile on your face all the time. We often think that our negative emotions should be minimized and repressed, but acknowledging and managing them is ac…
00:58:49 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
The Empathy Diaries with Sherry Turkle
The human capacity for empathy allows us to communicate, collaborate and understand each other. But we all know empathy isn’t always easy, and we can feel worn down by the effort. MIT professor and r…
00:42:15 |
Wed 27 Dec 2023
A Deeper Look at the Immigrant Experience
The stories we hear about migrants trying to escape difficult circumstances tend to focus on hardship, conflict, statistics and policy. We rarely get a deep look at any of the people risking their li…
00:57:09 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
On Being in a Body: Kate Bowler with Krista Tippett
When Duke divinity school professor Kate Bowler wrote her best-selling memoir, “Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved),” she was grappling with the consequences of a shocking can…
01:00:35 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
The Sober Curiosity Movement
For adults, the pressure to drink at social engagements, work events, restaurants or almost anywhere outside the home can feel constant. Recent research has found that “no amount or kind of alcohol i…
00:53:47 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
Work and Life Advice for the Nonlinear Path
In today’s world, we tend to switch jobs more frequently than previous generations, and are more likely to have multiple jobs. Side gigs where we express passions or find meaning are also common, and…
00:52:58 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
Most Americans today would agree that the dream of supporting a family and living a good life on one full time salary is not available to vast numbers of people. Wages have not risen at the pace of p…
00:52:07 |
Thu 16 Nov 2023
How Do We Put Guardrails on A.I.?
Artificial intelligence is making world-changing advances every day. But these powerful tools can be used for malicious and nefarious purposes just as easily as they can be used for good. How can soc…
00:51:37 |
Thu 09 Nov 2023
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