TIME Five Best Ideas

We Might Be Defining Economic Success Incorrectly

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These are today's best ideas

1. Are we defining economic success all wrong?

By Kevin Charles Fleming in Pacific Standard

2. Here are four ways companies can really get family friendly.

By Stephanie Vozza in Fast Company

3. Working in dim lighting might rewire your brain and make it harder to remember.

By Andy Henion at Michigan State University

4. Disappearing messaging apps like Snapchat undermine our power to preserve the past or get justice in the future.

By Felix Salmon in Wired

5. Don’t give your kids ‘toddler drinks.’

By the New York University

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C.

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