Top Coast Festival

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Aneesh Chopra on government and innovation Chris Farrell interviews the former Chief Technology Officer of the United States Aneesh Chopra about his new book "Innovative State." Chopra says you may th...

Jon Foley, outgoing director of the Institute on the Environment — University of Minnesota - spoke with Ramez Naam at the Top Coast festival last week about climate change and technology. Hear the full audio on MPR News Presents.

MPR Top Coast Festival: Ramez Naam & Jon Foley on global environment Computer scientist and futurist Ramez Naam speaks with global environment expert Jonathan Foley at MPR's Top Coast Festival about the ways technology can, and can't, address our energy, climate and environmental problems. They say technological innovation is only as good as our political will and th…

The presentations by Paul Tough and Richard Louv from the Top Coast Festival are now available on the MPR News site. Did you hear their conversations on childhood development? Let us know what you thought.

MPR Top Coast Festival: Paul Tough and Richard Louv on children and character At MPR's Top Coast Festival, Stephen Smith interviews New York Times Magazine reporter Paul Tough about grit, perseverence and resilience in children. He's the author of "How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character." Also from the Top Coast Festival, an excerpt of the pr…

MPR Top Coast Festival: Maggie Koerth-Baker on medical ethics Koerth-Baker of BoingBoing.net looks at the limits of medical science in a current world of bioethics that can limit testing medicines and procedures on humans.

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MPR Top Coast Festival: Ezekiel Emanuel on health care reform Emanuel was a strong voice in the White House during the creation of the Affordable Care Act. He says the reforms are reshaping our current system in ways that are unseen by most.

MPR Top Coast Festival: Mark Leibovich on 'This Town' MPR's Tom Crann interviews New York Times magazine reporter Mark Leibovich about his best-selling book about Washington politics, media and celebrity, "This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral--plus plenty of valet parking--in America's Gilded Capital."

Scenes from Sunday, June 1st sessions
Photos: Tom Baker of Manitou Photos

Insuring Every American: The Story Behind the Affordable Care Act
Ezekiel Emanuel interviewed by Kerri Miller

Slow Down: Why Success Is Found in Stillness
Russell Simmons interviewed by Dessa

Thank you to everyone for joining us at Top Coast this weekend! Listen for broadcasts of sessions starting this week on MPR News, look for a survey in your email inboxes this week, and check out the archived tweets on the MPR News homepage here to see what fellow attendees thought. You can also leave comments below; we'll be sure to read them. Thanks all who attended!

MPR News Top Coast Festival Chess team succeeded because teacher taught them how to FAIL. Honest debrief after every game. "A rook? What were u thinking!?"

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MPR News Top Coast Festival Chess team succeeded because teacher taught them how to FAIL. Honest debrief after every game. "A rook? What were u thinking!?"

Russell Simmons was on The Current this morning, talking about stillness, his legendary hip hop career, and his Sunday morning conversation with Dessa to close out the Top Coast Festival.

Entrepreneur and visionary Russell Simmons to speak at MPR News Top Coast Festival Our sister station, MPR News, is presenting the inaugural Top Coast Festival this weekend, where big ideas meet new solutions. Among the keynote speakers is Russell Simmons, a master entrepreneur and visionary.

"We wanted to create a model for how for-profit companies should behave," says Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker. He's one of the speakers at this weekend's Top Coast Festival. See him Saturday, May 31: http://topcoast.mprnews.org/

Neil Blumenthal: Secrets to Warby Parker's Rapid Growth Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal reveals his company's strategies for bootstrapping, handling big competition, and finding a social mission.

Top Coast headliner Ezekiel Emanuel says we should remember how slow we were to take on the perils of smoking as a public health threat:

"It...took until 1970 for Congress to ban cigarette advertising on TV and radio; until 1975 for the military to stop including ci******es in rations; until 1982 for the federal cigarette excise tax to be raised; until 1990 for Congress to ban smoking on domestic flights; until 1997 for President Clinton to ban smoking in most government buildings; until 1998 for cigarette manufacturers to acknowledge that smoking was addictive and caused cancer; and until 2003 for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to ban smoking in New York City’s restaurants and bars."

See him Sunday, June 1st at the McNamara Alumni Center. Tickets available now for $35. http://topcoast.mprnews.org/

Finally, Some Optimism About Obesity We moved much more slowly to confront the dangers of smoking.