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.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 561
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
QUICK TAKE | Rules Schmules | Adam Grant
Want to raise creative kids who learn how to think for themselves? Go easy on the rules.
Quick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form.
Today’s episode features Adam Gr…
00:06:32 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
Journalism's norms are changing. Here's why you should care.
Norms in newsrooms across the United States are being upended thanks to deep polarization, a racial reckoning, and the pandemic. Hallmark journalistic traits like neutrality and objectivity are being…
00:57:07 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
QUICK TAKE | How a Cosmic Perspective Could Unify Earthlings | Jill Tarter
Quick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form.
Today’s episode features astronomer Jill Tarter. She co-founded SETI, or the “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Inst…
00:05:26 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Will this Anti-Poverty Measure Stick?
When President Biden expanded the nation's Child Tax Credit in March, US Senator Michael Bennet applauded the move. Bennet, a democrat from Colorado, has been working to increase support for families…
00:34:12 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
QUICK TAKE | Get Off Your Duff to Improve Your Brain | Sanjay Gupta
What if the key to a healthier brain is as simple as getting up out of your chair?
Quick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form.
Today’s episode features neurosurgeon D…
00:03:20 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Whose Job Is It to Protect Your Online Data?
When you tick a box on an online privacy notice, just how much personal information are you giving away? Is the tradeoff worthwhile? When it comes to data, the relationship between companies and cons…
00:53:32 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
QUICK TAKE | How a Dating App is Making the Internet more Humane | Whitney Wolfe Herd
Quick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form.
Today’s episode features Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. Watch her full conversation from the Aspen Ideas Festiv…
00:06:48 |
Fri 08 Oct 2021
Why Big Social can't Coexist with Democracy
Technology has changed the way we think and interact with one another, and social media platforms are intentionally engineered to be addictive and manipulative. Those messages are in the documentary …
00:47:03 |
Tue 05 Oct 2021
QUICK TAKE | How to Leave a Conspiracy Movement | Yasmin Green
How can technology be used to help people leave conspiracy movements? A technologist for Google weighs in.
Quick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form.
Today’s episode…
00:04:14 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
Conquering Fear Everywhere, from the Office to Everest
John Hagel, author of The Journey Beyond Fear, says there's increasing fear and uncertainty in the world and it's not just from the pandemic. Competition for jobs, mounting performance pressure, and …
00:42:22 |
Wed 29 Sep 2021
QUICK TAKE | This Moment in Education | Tim Shriver
What classrooms need now: A focus on emotional health.
Quick Take is a weekly dose of ideas and insights delivered in short form.
Today’s episode features Tim Shriver, chairman of the Special Olymp…
00:05:09 |
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Are We on the Brink of Finding Life on Mars?
The history of exploration on Mars reads like a good book with twists and turns and unexpected findings. None of these findings, though, have turned up evidence of life. After decades of searching, s…
00:28:41 |
Tue 21 Sep 2021
9/11: The Hinge of History
Twenty years ago, terror attacks on September 11th took place in the United States over the course of a morning but the effects have been felt ever since — politically and psychologically. Journalist…
00:46:40 |
Wed 15 Sep 2021
When the 'Woke Playbook' Kills Free Speech
How is social justice best pursued in a time when America is facing a reckoning on race? In today's cancel culture, many believe making the world a better place means banishing some opinions from the…
00:44:03 |
Wed 08 Sep 2021
A 'Weather Map' of Viruses Could Prevent the Next Pandemic
Before Covid-19 began spreading across the globe last year, virologist Nathan Wolfe already knew what was becoming abundantly clear: The world was woefully unprepared to prevent the spread of novel v…
00:47:22 |
Tue 31 Aug 2021
Why Do Some People Succeed and Others Fail?
A person with grit, says psychologist Angela Duckworth, uses passion and long-term perseverance to reach goals. Reaching success, she says, is about stamina over months and years, not talent or a hig…
00:39:17 |
Wed 25 Aug 2021
The Culture of Dogdom
People are in constant conversation with their dogs, says dog scientist Alexandra Horowitz, and dogs pick up on things like our tone of voice. "We think meaning is all in the words but for them, the …
00:50:14 |
Tue 17 Aug 2021
An Insider's Take on the Capitol Riot Probe
Representative Liz Cheney is one of nine lawmakers investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol. The Republican is part of a House select committee that held its first hearing last month. It's…
00:39:35 |
Tue 10 Aug 2021
How Can We Fix a Broken (and Dangerous) Internet?
Instead of coming together during the pandemic, many Americans have grown farther apart. People are increasingly living in different realities of news, politics, and information, which is putting pub…
00:31:40 |
Tue 03 Aug 2021
Politics Minus Politicians
Imagine a new kind of democracy — one that puts governance back in the hands of the people. This is the idea behind political theorist Hélène Landemore's book Open Democracy. Contemporary representat…
00:46:06 |
Tue 27 Jul 2021
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