The 2008 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.
'What's the Big Idea?'
The opening event at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado. A doctor, lawyer, climate scientist, actor, writer, former Supreme Court Justice and others tell us their one "big idea."
Guests
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David Katz: M.D. and Director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center
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Larry Lessig: Stanford University law professor
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Peter Coyote: Actor and documentary film narrator. Author, "Sleeping Where I Fall."
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Shelby Steele: Author, columnist, documentary film maker and research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
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John Holdren: Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Director of the Woods Hole Research Center.
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Dalia Mogahed: Executive director, Center for Muslim Studies at the Gallup Organization.
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Sandra Day O'Connor: Former associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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Brian Greene: Professor of theoretical physics at Columbia University in New York. author of "The Elegant Universe."
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