What's the Big Idea? (Brian Greene), 2008

Brian Greene, string theory evangelist, introduces his big idea to help open the Ideas Festival. He tells the story of a soldier in Iraq who found solace in the grand concepts in a book by Greene. Greene connects this to a need for better understanding and education of science in the American education system.

Hosted by the Aspen Institute, The 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival will engage its participants in a variety of programs, tutorials, seminars and discussion events which together are guaranteed to charge the atmosphere with vibrant intellectual exchange. Think of it as a week-long summer university for the mind -- remarkable lectures and classes across a stimulating array of topics.

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[alvaug2]

What a speaker!

[VoLCoMzYaDiGG]

Brian Greene

Carl Sagan

Neil Degrasse Tyson

Richard Feynman

Richard Dawkins

Michio Kaku

Albert Einstein

All these men, deceased and the living, are the ones who should have and should currently be the leaders of the human race. Not these moronic, ignorant, filth like obama and bush and blair and putin. These men are the ones who fail to grasp the reality of life. Remove minorities, we are all human. We must remove religion, one of the LARGEST segregating factors of our species and race.

[ladyboylizard]

@VoLCoMzYaDiGG , you also forgot ed witten

[KamuzXDriver]

@VoLCoMzYaDiGG And recently, Brian Cox :)

[VoLCoMzYaDiGG]

@RCSiberia man i know, i had forgotten a few people like Oliver Sacks, Steven Hawkings, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Jill Bolte Taylor, Robert Winston and Brian Cox...

[RCSiberia]

@VoLCoMzYaDiGG Steven Hawking :) you forgot to include him :)

[durhamcharles1]

amazing!

[l3lip]

@Trent211000

You just love spewing tripe, don't you?

[09Ti08]

Can't stop calling his name in my heart! I

[nikanj]

Why is it that in western culture men seem to be so much more interested in physics than women? Among my friends the subject of physics often crops up at the dinner table at which point all of the women lose interest. I'd dismiss it as a statistical anomaly but I think it's much more widespread. These are intelligent women by the way and they're interested in biology and nature. What's so off-putting about physics?

[rssbsagartan]

gr8..........really brian green u r my idol