These lunchtime discussions features prominent performers, composers, and musicologists in lively discussions with AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher. Panelists are pianist Jeremy Denk and cellist Steven Isserlis.

Alexis Nikole Nelson is a forager and an outdoor educator using her platform to yell, sing and celebrate all the edible plants hiding in plain sight! She invites all who will come on the foraging journey of collecting, identifying, and eating wild food.

In her talk, Raquel introduces the new notion of quantum geometry in quantum materials and its crucial role in determining properties and phases of matter. She discusses how quantum geometry is essential to protect emergent phases where interactions between electrons are strong and electrons behave in remarkable ways, such as those where electrons pair up and condense into a macroscopic quantum state or phases where electrons are broken into independent fractions with new quantum statistics.

Thanks to Aspen Public Radio’s partnership with the Aspen Music Festival and School these lunchtime discussions are recorded each week as part of our “Ideas, Speakers & Lectures” initiative and feature prominent performers, composers, and musicologists in lively discussions with AMFS President and CEO Alan Fletcher. This week’s panelists are pianist Inon Barnatan and cellist Alisa Weilerstein.

Hampton Sides speaks with Pete Mcbride at Explore Booksellers.

Jeff Goodell, New York Times Bestselling author of The Water Will Come and The Heat Will Kill You First speaks at Explore Booksellers.

What is the heaviest particle in the Universe? What is the lightest? The answer to these questions could be dark matter. For decades, we have thought that dark matter would be a particle with a mass similar to the particles we already know about, like the proton or the recently discovered Higgs boson. But in the last decade a revolution has taken place in the field, which has led to a dramatic expansion in the range of masses where we believe dark matter could live. In this talk Rodd reviews this revolution, and explains how the discovery of dark matter could amount to detecting dark waves at the location of the Earth, or massive explosions happening throughout the Universe.

Enjoy this special discussion, recorded live during Lawn Bash 2024, featuring Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser, President & CEO of Colorado Mountain College; Jeremy Moore, Director of Journalism at Rocky Mountain Public Media; and Aspen's Mayor Torre for a robust conversation about rediscovering common ground in this pivotal election year, moderated by 1A host Jenn White.

1A Host Jenn White, Glenwood Springs City Councilor Jonathan Godes, and other community leaders sat down to with Aspen Public Radio’s All Things Considered Host Halle Zander to discuss issues at stake in local democracies in the Roaring Fork Valley, and how civic engagement plays a role in various solutions.

Explore ideas for the future of our economy. Natalie Foster discusses her provocative book that tracks seven government guarantees over the decade and demonstrates they’re not just visionary but entirely possible, in conversation with Deepti Doshi, Co-Director of New_Public, a nonprofit R&D lab reimagining digital social spaces to embrace pluralism, and build community.