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Daniel Gilbert, Harvard professor and author of “Stumbling on Happiness”, is someone I enjoy listening to even if I’ve heard his talk several times before.… Read More »Daniel Gilbert on why it’s so hard to know what makes us happy

Jonathan Lyons was a correspondent for Reuters for 21 years, the first American national to be based in Tehran after the revolution. He and his… Read More »Jonathan Lyons on the Islamic resolution of science and monotheism

Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund gave a talk yesterday about video and social change, featuring the video below that tries to convince people… Read More »Jason Clay and measuring the environmental impact of agriculture

Futurist and consultant John Hagel caught my attention with a talk titled “Shaping Serendipity”. He’s introduced by John Seely Brown, his frequent collaborator. Brown and… Read More »John Hagel on serendipity

I jogged (yes, me, jogging!) from Tim O’Reilly’s talk to a session on immigration reform at Aspen. I was still late, so I arrived during… Read More »Aspen Ideas Festival: Immigration Reform