Photo: #Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor speaks at the opening of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo.
Photo: #David Bradley is chair and owner of the Atlantic Media Company.
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Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor speaks at the opening of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo. (Photo courtesy of the Aspen Institute)
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Aspen Ideas Festival 2009

The 2009 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.

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Aspen Ideas Festival 2009

'What's the Big Idea?' at the Aspen Ideas Festival

Broadcast: Midday, 06/30/2009, 12:00 p.m.

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Nine speakers from a variety of fields give short presentations on their big ideas, at the opening of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo.

Guests

  • Sandra Day O'Connor: Former United States Supreme Court Justice.
  • David Bradley: Chair and owner of the Atlantic Media Company.
  • Sean Carroll: Professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Madrina Pisklakova: Founder of Center ANNA, the first crisis counseling center in Russia.
  • Robert Socolow: Professor of mechnical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University. Co-director of Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative.
  • Marian Wright Edelman: President and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.
  • Paul Ryan: U.S. Representative, R-Wis.
  • Elissa Massamino: CEO and executive director of Human Rights First.
  • David Fanning: Executive producer of PBS Frontline.

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