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BONUS: Can Robots Curb Loneliness?
Aspen Ideas to Go - December 02, 2022 20:12 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsRobots 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 through this fascinating talk with Professor Arshia Khan of the University of Minnesota Duluth. She sp...
A Wrinkle in Time: On Beauty and Aging
Aspen Ideas to Go - December 01, 2022 03:56 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsRight 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 youth as long as possible via whatever means necessary, and shame tends to accompany all of the ...
Bad Things Do Happen to Good People (Encore)
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 24, 2022 03:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsWe try our whole lives to avoid pain and suffering and when it does show up, we try to solve it. In her new book, No Cure for Being Human, religious scholar Kate Bowler says we try to out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. Truth is, bad things do happen to good people and if we're go...
ENCORE: Bad Things Do Happen to Good People
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 24, 2022 03:01 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsWe try our whole lives to avoid pain and suffering and when it does show up, we try to solve it. In her new book, No Cure for Being Human, religious scholar Kate Bowler says we try to out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. Truth is, bad things do happen to good people and if we're go...
The Science of Groupiness
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 17, 2022 04:47 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsThough it can sometimes feel like conflict and discord is human nature, our brains are actually predisposed to forming groups and working together. In our individualistic society, we may think our minds stop at our skulls, but when people come together and connect effectively, they actually thin...
Rewilding the Land
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 09, 2022 23:35 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 217 ratingsAs the world’s nations face the realities of climate change negotiation in Egypt this week at CoP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, we take a closer look at what it means to care for wild places. For some indigenous groups, just the concept of “wild” land is foreign, but many of t...
How Do You Know if Your Vote is Counted?
Aspen Ideas to Go - November 02, 2022 16:16 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsAmericans across the country will go to the polls and cast their ballots next week, but they won’t all do it in exactly the same way. The U.S. has 8,800 voting jurisdictions, which allows for local adaptation, but presents a challenge when it comes to standardizing elections. That variability mi...
Are We Stupider than Ever?
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 26, 2022 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsDoes it feel like the quality of our national discourse has gone down in the last several years? You’re not the only one who’s noticed. It’s not individuals who have gotten stupider, says NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, but it’s our collective intelligence that’s suffering. Institutions ...
Awe Is More Powerful than You Think
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 19, 2022 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsSo much of adult life is about learning the rules and then using those rules to navigate the world. We become certain that we know what we know — that we’re right, and we’re safer and more secure that way. But certainty, argues neuroscientist Beau Lotto, might actually be one of society’s bigges...
How Do We Stop the Rise of Hate?
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 13, 2022 01:37 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsHate has unfortunately been a part of the United States since the founding of the country, enshrined at various times in policies and regulations, and showing up in the practices and everyday behavior of individuals. We have made progress in addressing some of those harms and removing some of th...
ENCORE: Building Brain Health at Any Age
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 05, 2022 17:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsPeople often talk about maintaining their physical health but brain health is an afterthought. It turns out brain fitness at any age heightens and protects brain function and can even prevent brain disease. Sanjay Gupta, author of Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age, Maria Shriver, found...
Building Brain Health at Any Age (Encore)
Aspen Ideas to Go - October 05, 2022 17:25 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsPeople often talk about maintaining their physical health but brain health is an afterthought. It turns out brain fitness at any age heightens and protects brain function and can even prevent brain disease. Sanjay Gupta, author of Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age, Maria Shriver, found...
David Brooks on Building Trust and Connection
Aspen Ideas to Go - September 28, 2022 16:59 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsAre we experiencing a “crisis of connection"?” Fifty-four percent of American adults report that not a single person knows them well. Our political and social divisions are at the forefront of public life right now, and distrust is widespread. New York Times columnist David Brooks is on a missio...
Is It Time for New Economic Metrics?
Aspen Ideas to Go - September 21, 2022 16:32 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsDo we really understand what’s happening in the economic lives of regular Americans? How is inflation hitting people with middle and lower incomes, and what impact will higher interest rates have on them? What societally valuable assets are we ignoring because we don’t measure them? Some economi...
Bringing the Democratic Party Back to the People
Aspen Ideas to Go - September 14, 2022 23:13 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsHave Democrats become too identified with technocratic ways of speaking — about the economy, the pandemic, climate change? Has this deepened the political divide between those with and those without college degrees? Can Democrats reconnect with working-class voters who were drawn to Donald Trump...
Managing Our Eco-Anxiety
Aspen Ideas to Go - September 07, 2022 15:26 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsHeat 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 problems than solutions, and it’s often difficult to find helpful information about managing our fear ...
Time for a Friendship Reset?
Aspen Ideas to Go - August 31, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 217 ratingsFor many people, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown became an unexpected opportunity to take stock of our relationships. Some friendships deepened and transformed, some slipped away, and many social circles shrank. Which isn’t always a bad thing. Our friendships have an enormous impact on our lives,...
Following Dirty Money Around the World
Aspen Ideas to Go - August 24, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 217 ratingsWe are in a golden age for organized crime and corruption, according to watchdog groups. Technological innovations like cryptocurrency have given criminals new tools for covering their tracks, and allowed them to spread out around the globe. Bad actors have spent decades building tangled webs of...
When it Comes to Education, Do Parents Know Best?
Aspen Ideas to Go - August 17, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsParents have always cared about what their kids are learning in school, but education debates have become particularly explosive in the U.S. in the last couple of years. All over the country, parent groups have introduced bills that try to control and restrict what children learn – especially ar...
Free Speech: Where Should We Go From Here?
Aspen Ideas to Go - August 10, 2022 15:56 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsIn public forums and institutions all across America, people are arguing about what free speech means in the age of the internet. What are the rules, and are they the same in every context? What are the consequences of taking action against hate speech, and what are the consequences of not takin...
Beyond Crisis Response: Health and Justice
Shades of Freedom - August 09, 2022 00:07 - 27 minutesGuest Biography Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Tasha Blackmon is a dynamic, collaborative leader, mentor and coach who brings more than 20 years of business operations experience to her role as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cherry Health, Michigan’s largest Federally Qual...
Will Inflation Come Down Anytime Soon?
Aspen Ideas to Go - August 03, 2022 20:27 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsInflation is dominating the financial news headlines, and millions of Americans are really hurting from high prices for gas and food. The unemployment rate is still low, but some companies are announcing layoffs and hiring freezes, and it’s hard to see the light at the end of the economic tunnel...
A Firsthand Report of Ukrainian Suffering and Resolve
Aspen Ideas to Go - July 20, 2022 14:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsAs Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, reporters bring us more and more heart-wrenching stories and images of suffering caused by the conflict. The scale of the damage can feel overwhelming, but a firsthand account can sometimes help us process the impact and ground us in what’s happening in t...
Is the Supreme Court Still the Weakest Branch?
Aspen Ideas to Go - July 15, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsAlexander Hamilton called the U.S. Supreme Court the “weakest” branch of government, because it has no direct control over the military or budget. But the court’s recent cluster of decisions on hot-button issues has demonstrated that it can have an enormous impact on the American people and life...
Beyond Roe and Dobbs: the Future of Reproductive Rights
Aspen Ideas to Go - July 14, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 217 ratingsThe U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022, has clear consequences: abortion is no longer a protected federal right in the U.S, and many clinics are shutting down. But the legal arguments the decision relies upon are much more complex, and th...
SCOTUS: Roe v. Wade is Overturned
Aspen Ideas to Go - July 13, 2022 20:28 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 217 ratingsThe U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, revoking the federal right to an abortion. The Aspen Ideas Festival kicked off the next day, so we quickly shifted gears for the Opening Session and pulled together a stellar panel discussion that centered this groundbreaking legal ...
Restoring Rights and Clearing Records
Shades of Freedom - July 13, 2022 15:37 - 33 minutesSheena Meade talks about her beginnings in labor organizing, then helping to co-lead the successful fight to restore voting rights in Florida, and how that has led to a push, across the States, to automate the clearing of records, and other new collaborations, such as Next Chapter, to change emp...
Special Announcement
Aspen Ideas to Go - June 14, 2022 03:11 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 217 ratingsListen to a programming announcement and learn how you can participate in Aspen Ideas Digital. aspen ideas.info/info promo code: AITG
Local Justice Journalism
Shades of Freedom - June 13, 2022 20:59 - 25 minutesWhile federal criminal justice policy gets a lot of attention, arguably the most important reforms are occurring in local jurisdictions. And many of those efforts are led by elected local justice leaders – sheriffs, DAs and prosecutors – or are being advanced through local ballot measures. These...
Digital Surveillance and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
Aspen Ideas to Go - May 17, 2022 18:17 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 217 ratingsThe reversal of Roe v. Wade would make it difficult or impossible for millions of people to obtain abortions, but would also open the doors to criminally prosecute people who seek or obtain an abortion. And in our technological age, that criminalization brings new, frightening opportunities for ...
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