Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 13, 2020 - The Aspen Institute

Despite unrest in the Middle East, oil prices are holding steady. Why?

C.K. Hickey in Foreign Policy
Everyone knows memory fails as you age. But everyone is wrong.

Daniel J. Levitin in The New York Times
The great dismantling of America’s national parks is under way.

Destry Jarvis and Johnathan B. Jarvis in the Guardian
What went wrong with virtual reality?

Eleanor Lawrie in BBC
What science needs, and how the next generation can deliver.

Martin Rees in Nautilus