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Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal, joins other big names in health like US Surgeon General Jerome Adams, and Vanessa Mason, co-founder of P2Health Ventures, at this summer’s Spotlight Health. Check out the the full sneak peek list. Join these healthcare pioneers and advocates at Spotlight Health, the three-day opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival, and participate in the most important health conversations happening today. Register for Spotlight Health.

How to Live a Moral Life

In this Aspen Ideas to Go podcast episode we hear from scholars who think deeply about moral philosophy and helping others. Author of The Road to Character David Brooks joins Columbia philosophy professor Michele Moody-Adams, New Yorker writer Larissa MacFarquhar, and Stanford's Rob Reich for an examination of what and who defines right and wrong. Listen on Apple Podcasts, our website, NPR One, Spotify, and SiriusXM Insight, channel 121.

— WHAT WE'RE READING (and watching) —

As we consider topics for the 2018 program tracks, here are some stories that have caught our attention:

*Why markets need clear rules — and how even innovative companies can become a problem

*This art installation shows that you really can’t keep a man down.

*An unprecedented number of women are diving into US politics.

*This man used a supercomputer to study his own body. Now he’s using tech to help rethink medicine for all.

— QUOTE —

"We have the power. The power is in your person. And this is all the power that you need, but you can't do it by yourself, you've got to have other people to join you. People power!"  — Dolores Huerta, social justice activist, Aspen Ideas 2017