Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 17, 2016 - The Aspen Institute

Your sunscreen is lying to you.

James Hamblin in the Atlantic
Hosting the Olympics is a terrible investment.

Clay Dillow in FiveThirtyEight
A good high school student will be a good college student, right? Wrong.

Gregory Ferenstein and Brad Hershbein at the Brookings Institution
We need a new grand bargain with Russia.

James Stavridis in Time
This folding paper helmet could make bike-sharing a lot safer.

Eillie Anzilotti in CityLab