Aspen Ideas Festival 2008

'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

• David Katz: M.D. and Director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center
• Larry Lessig: Stanford University law professor
• Peter Coyote: Actor and documentary film narrator. Author, "Sleeping Where I Fall."
• Shelby Steele: Author, columnist, documentary film maker and research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
• John Holdren: Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Director of the Woods Hole Research Center.
• Dalia Mogahed: Executive director, Center for Muslim Studies at the Gallup Organization.
• Sandra Day O'Connor: Former associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• Brian Greene: Professor of theoretical physics at Columbia University in New York. author of "The Elegant Universe."

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Resources

• Aspen Ideas Festival