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Tim O’Reilly says we should be harnessing technology, rather than fearing it.
What might we learn from the past about the current state of politics and democracy in America?
When Duke divinity school professor Kate Bowler wrote her best-selling memoir, “Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved),” she was grappling with the consequences of a shocking cancer diagnosis. Many of the common messages about hardship, tragedy and success that she’d grown up hearing – and even studied as a religious scholar – no longer seemed to make...
How is online learning changing classroooms?
Ahead of the midterms, what are we hearing about the candidates, the campaigns, and the issues?
Trust in civic, religious, and academic institutions is at an all-time low in America.
How can 20 hours of focused practice help you develop surprising levels of new skills?
Cancer is the second leading cause of death among adults in the US and cancer care costs $125 billion a year. In this episode we hear from medical experts who have researched, written, and made progress in the fight against cancer.
Hear stories on health and human connection around the world from Aspen New Voices fellows.
So 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 biggest sources of emotional and physical unwellness. Certainty causes us to have les...
Vice President Joe Biden gets personal about his connection to cancer.
What does it mean to be creative? How can we all tap into creative potential?
How are diet and lifestyle linked to bacterial communities in the gut?
We 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 going to tell the truth, we need one another. As someone who lives with cancer,...
After millennia of human existence, we’re still figuring out and talking constantly about one of our most fundamental behaviors – sex. Despite the sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s and the growth of sex positivity in recent decades, a lot of people still report having a lot of bad sex. The reasons for that are varied and multiple, but culture has a role to play, and we...
Hear stories on health and human connection around the world from Aspen New Voices fellows.
Kids growing up in the U.S. today are facing some terrifyingly real, daunting problems. Almost every day, they hear about political polarization, racism, climate change, gun violence and a host of other complex societal issues. They’re learning how to comprehend those challenges and the emotions they evoke at the same time they’re trying to learn everything else, and that...
Once they reach adolescence, kids land on an emotional rollercoaster. As parents, teachers, coaches, and mentors, how can we help teens communicate and navigate the intensity of their emotions?
Grappling with the challenges and problems life throws at us is difficult, especially during a pandemic. Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb says the stories we tell about ourselves and others can make it even harder to cope.
Antibodies, convalescent plasma, gene-based vaccines — you may have heard these terms on the evening news, but what do they mean? How might they help in the battle against Covid-19?