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
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Philosophy
Science
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Society & Culture
Psychology
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 561
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Separated: Inside an American Tragedy with Jacob Soboroff
During the period of several months in 2018 when the Trump administration was separating migrant families at the U.S. border with Mexico, NBC News and MSNBC reporter Jacob Soboroff was exposing the r…
00:46:51 |
Wed 05 Apr 2023
Bret Stephens and John Englander on Climate Skepticism
Even people who agree that climate change is a problem don’t necessarily agree on what to do about it. And some people still need a little more convincing that the threat is as serious as climate sci…
00:25:09 |
Thu 23 Mar 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris Believes We Can Tackle Climate Change
A problem as big as climate change relies on millions of incremental solutions of all sizes, but also requires leaders who can keep their eye on the big picture. Not all the movement on climate needs…
00:33:15 |
Wed 15 Mar 2023
Can Gen Z Trust Their Elders?
Today’s young people have not seen a lot of good examples of adults working together to solve problems. Generation Z is coming of age amidst daunting issues like climate change, gun violence, and a t…
00:45:17 |
Wed 08 Mar 2023
Managing Our Eco-Anxiety (Encore)
Heat waves. Wildfires. Floods. This summer has served up some of the most extreme weather on record, and it’s clear many of us are overwhelmed by climate change news. We usually hear more about probl…
00:45:58 |
Thu 02 Mar 2023
How Trauma Lives in the Body with Bessel van der Kolk
A traumatic event can literally change the way our brain functions, and live on in our body in unexpected ways. The field of psychiatry has not always acknowledged or fully studied the physical impac…
00:57:21 |
Wed 22 Feb 2023
Hot Stuff: Love, Sex and the Brain
What is it that pulls one person toward another, and connects them? What does love and attraction do to our brain, and vice versa? Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher has been studying questions o…
00:35:55 |
Wed 15 Feb 2023
Patrick Radden Keefe on Rogues and Rebels
We could look at people who veer off society’s dominant tracks into moral gray zones as simply bad, or damaged, or living the consequences of bad choices. But from the inside, people always have reas…
00:57:45 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
The Kids Are Not Alright – But We Can Help
Kids growing up in the U.S. today are facing some terrifyingly real, daunting problems. Almost every day, they hear about political polarization, racism, climate change, gun violence and a host of ot…
00:49:06 |
Wed 01 Feb 2023
Curbing Gun Violence Through Public Health
Despite the deeply tragic, terrifying and high-profile nature of gun violence, the United States has not been able to make significant progress on the problem. The arguments on all sides are exhausti…
01:08:53 |
Thu 26 Jan 2023
ENCORE: What the Ancients Got Right about Happiness
People have been thinking about happiness for thousands of years. In fact, ancient thinkers came up with strategies for cultivating pleasures over a lifetime, or creating a lasting capacity to take j…
00:43:40 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
The Invisible Kingdom of Chronic Illness
The pain and discomfort brought on by a newly-developed chronic illness can be exhausting. On top of symptoms, millions of people also have frustrating and belittling encounters with the medical syst…
00:51:09 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
What if Wanting Less Gets You More?
Most of us know where to find quick hits of pleasure and enjoyment. But what about satisfaction that lasts for years, or decades, or a lifetime? It can be tempting to think the secret lies in pursuin…
00:51:28 |
Wed 04 Jan 2023
The Promise and Pull of Psychedelic Therapy
Psychedelics are emerging from a period of prohibition and association with counterculture into the rigorous world of medical research and treatment. The potential outcomes for people suffering from …
01:01:03 |
Thu 22 Dec 2022
BONUS: How to Influence People
Professor Zoe Chance, who teaches the most popular class at the Yale School of Management, illuminates the skills and strategies necessary to improve your natural ability to persuade.
Tell us what y…
00:13:47 |
Sat 17 Dec 2022
Hacked! Medical Devices at Risk
Cybersecurity gaps in the technological systems that run our lives are becoming more and more apparent. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about another major institution hit with an attack. Man…
00:49:53 |
Wed 14 Dec 2022
BONUS: Rebuilding Trust in Science
The pandemic amplified political polarization. As doctors learned more about COVID-19, protocols changed and people started to question the guidance. Science itself, came under scrutiny. CPR Audio In…
00:11:23 |
Sat 10 Dec 2022
Finding Happiness Despite Suffering
Looking around and experiencing the suffering and injustice in the world can make it difficult to believe that happiness exists. But the Judeo-Christian tradition teaches that it’s sinful to succumb …
00:48:14 |
Thu 08 Dec 2022
BONUS: Can Robots Curb Loneliness?
Robots as caregivers? Meet “Pepper,” a robot that can tell a joke, recognize emotions and help people remember special times in their lives. Rebekah Romberg, of Colorado Public Radio, guides us throu…
00:12:18 |
Fri 02 Dec 2022
A Wrinkle in Time: On Beauty and Aging
Right when women feel like they have it all figured out, many of them enter a stage of life in our society where they feel dismissed, ignored and cast out. The pressure is strong to try and hold onto…
00:46:06 |
Thu 01 Dec 2022
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