Science and the Public Sphere: Getting out the Truth - A Media Roundtable with discussants Michael Lemonick, Robert Krulwich, Shirley Jackson, Lawrence Krauss, Jim Lehrer, Mike Turner, Carolyn Porco. The panel was moderated by Walter Isaacson.
In this, its third year, Aspen Ideas Festival once again gathers scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers around some of the most important and fascinating ideas of our time. As these thinkers present their provocative ideas, they engage a sophisticated and highly motivated audience.
Bio
Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine.
He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007.
Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
He began his career at the Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined Time Magazine in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor and editor of new media before becoming the magazine's 14th managing editor in 1996. He became Chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003.
He was appointed after Hurricane Katrina to be the vice-chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He is on the Board of Directors of United Airlines, Tulane University, the National Constitution Center, and he is chairman of the board of Teach for America.
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
The Honorable Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D., is President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York. She has held senior leadership positions in government, industry, research, and academe.
Her research and policy focus includes energy security and the national capacity for innovation, including addressing the "Quiet Crisis" of looming gaps in the science, technology, and engineering workforce and reduced support for basic research.
A theoretical physicist, she was chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1995-1999). She is a Vice Chairman of the Council on Competitiveness and co-chairs its Energy Security, Innovation and Sustainability initiative.
She is past President (2004) and Chairman of the Board (2005) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the National
Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and AAAS.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the NYSE Euronext, serves on the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and as a director of
IBM, FedEx, Marathon Oil, Medtronic, and PSEG.
She also is a member of the Board of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Calling her a "national treasure," the National Science Board selected her as its 2007 Vannevar
Bush Award recipient for "a lifetime of achievements in scientific research, education, and senior statesman-like contributions to public
policy."
Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss is Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics. He was appointed to the faculty of physics and astronomy at Yale University in 1985, and then joined Case as Chair of Physics in 1993. The author of 7 popular books including international bestseller, The Physics of Star Trek and his newest book, Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions from Plato to String Theory and Beyond, Krauss is also a regular radio commentator and essayist for newspapers such as The New York Times, and appears regularly on television. He has received the highest awards of the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics.
Robert Krulwich
Robert Krulwich is an American radio and television journalist whose specialty is explaining complex topics in depth. He has worked as a full-time employee of CBS, National Public Radio, and Pacifica. He has done assignment pieces for ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight, as well as PBS's Frontline, NOVA, and NOW with Bill Moyers. TV Guide called him "the most inventive network reporter in television", and New York Magazine wrote that he's "the man who simplifies without being simple".
Jim Lehrer
Jim Lehrer is an American journalist and the news anchor for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. Lehrer is an author of non-fiction and fiction, drawing from his experiences and interests in history and politics.
Michael Lemonick
Michael D. Lemonick is an associate editor at Time magazine, which he joined in 1986 as a staff writer responsible for the science, environment and space sections. He has written cover stories on the great supernova of 1987, superconductivity, vanishing beaches, the Soviet space program, and climate change. In 1988, he became executive editor of Discover magazine but returned that year to Time as an associate editor, writing on Antarctica, Alaska, particle physics, and dinosaurs. Prior to joining Time, he was a senior editor at Science Digest magazine. His book, The Light at the Edge of the Universe, is an account of the lives and work of modern cosmologists.
Carolyn Porco
Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist and the leader of the imaging science team on the Cassini mission presently in orbit around Saturn. In late 1999, she was selected by the London Sunday Times as one of 18 scientific leaders of the 21st century, and by Industrial Week as one of "50 Stars to Watch". Porco was responsible for the epitaph and proposal to honor the late renowned planetary geologist, Eugene Shoemaker, by sending his cremains to the Moon aboard the Lunar Prospector spacecraft in 1998. Her contributions to the exploration of the outer solar system were recognized with the naming of Asteroid (7231) Porco: "Named in honor of Carolyn C. Porco, a pioneer in the study of planetary ring systems...and a leader in spacecraft exploration of the outer solar system".
Michael Turner
Michael S. Turner is a theoretical cosmologist, who coined the term dark energy. He is the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences for the US National Science Foundation. His book The Early Universe, co-written with fellow Chicago cosmologist Rocky Kolb, is the standard text on the subject.
Turner earned a PhD in Physics from Stanford University in 1978.
Global warming would be a good issue to raise awareness by the global public to subjects related to science.
But the core resons of global warming were and are wrong till this moment.
There is something else that all the scientists are missing out as the core reasons of this issue.
Having three or four international study groups studying it globally, is not going to solve this problem.
The core reasons of global warming would taken down religions immediately, which would be a good thing for science, as a fact.
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