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![The God Particle](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/0446d5a1-0a80-4d48-adfe-3a13f157ede9/7478891884_26590379a8_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=166%2C0%2C667%2C667&w=290)
Physicist Brian Greene explains the Higgs boson particle, also known as the "God Particle," and why you should care about it. This energetic and delightful talk will make you wish your high school physics teacher taught like this. Greene says the feat of finding such a particle is akin to "trying to hear a tiny, delicate whisper over the massive thundering, deafening din o...
![Sexual Harassment in the Sciences](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/aed1555a-8d50-4537-8b1c-058bba87d181/42066333285_e2b3c4d46c_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1000%2C0%2C4016%2C4016&w=290)
The #MeToo movement has inspired a sister movement called #USToo, designed to expose and eliminate sexual harassment in the sciences. A sweeping new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine looks at the extent to which women in these fields are harassed on campuses, research labs, medical centers and other academic environments. The chillin...
![Bringing New Drugs to the World](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null8508ba3c-bdb9-4aad-b8b6-88511758799f/27799139492_c2c108527b_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=266%2C0%2C1068%2C1068&w=290)
Pharmaceutical advances are expanding, with some exciting new drugs already on the market and others ready to emerge from the pipeline. These therapeutics offer fresh hope for combatting perilous infections, such as multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases, which affect more than one billion people every year. But it takes more than product devel...
![Health Equity through a Climate Lens](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/21f37547-fcd7-40a3-9e7d-5606b7a4e818/53809458196_a39e326257_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=399%2C0%2C4641%2C4640&w=290)
Climate change, with its global threats to health, could destroy low-lying nations and push as many as 135 million people into poverty by 2030, according to the World Bank. But these catastrophic consequences are not inevitable. Acknowledging that the burdens of climate change have been distributed inequitably, and targeting aggressive action specifically to vulnerable pop...
![Caregiving, a Generational Crisis](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/aec0d60b-c750-4000-968e-3d8ac8f52436/53806488722_5b677875ae_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=775%2C0%2C3101%2C3101&w=290)
Some say we are going over a caregiving cliff—too much demand for too few workers and too little respect for the uncompensated labor of family members. Caregivers don’t have the recognition, rights, or compensation they deserve and families can’t find, provide, or afford help for their youngest, oldest, and sickest members. The invisible and indispensable nature of caregiv...
![Exposomics: Environmental Exposures Shape Your Health for a Lifetime](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/23e0234d-ada6-494c-a298-f43416e98e68/240621_environmental_exposures_022.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1160%2C0%2C2667%2C2667&w=290)
Environmental stressors are a more potent influence on human health than genetic predisposition, a finding that has galvanized the emerging, interdisciplinary field of exposomics. Satellite technology, machine learning, and AI models are allowing experts at Mount Sinai’s Institute for Climate Change, Environmental Health, and Exposomics to reshape our understanding of what...
![Francis Collins on Science and Faith](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/6bfedb4f-4e98-45ef-a03c-fdc78698e0d5/53811234024_81d87a8491_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=199%2C0%2C3895%2C3896&w=290)
Few people are more deeply steeped in science than Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health and the groundbreaking Human Genome Project, and former acting science advisor to President Biden. The physician and geneticist is also an evangelical Christian and he sees no contradiction there. Indeed, Collins argues that harmonizing science and faith...
![Deborah Birx: Surviving in the Hot Seat](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/c940d910-6ab0-4a8e-b08e-15eacb50e391/52170543963_226ce7718f_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=637%2C0%2C2351%2C2351&w=290)
Best known to the public as the Trump Administration’s White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator, physician Deborah Birx is a clinical immunologist who has also served as US Global AIDS coordinator and a colonel in the US Army. Challenged to speak the truth about COVID-19, she balanced candor and political pragmatism to get out accurate information. Her new book, Sile...
![Is Health Care a Human Right?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/838e6efb-be6c-4b99-9927-93c7856060aa/43024223221_cc71c74b6b_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=290&q=80&rect=1376%2C0%2C5504%2C5504&w=290)
Do we have a right to health care? The United States remains the only developed country in the world unable to come to agreement on the answer. While many feel that the US government crossed a line with the Affordable Care Act’s mandate, others hope the program will expand. But do we even maintain consensus on the status of rights such as security, water, and shelter — and...