--- description: Better recovery for wounded soldiers, improving science communication, embracing the student experience, affordable ultrasound, and holistic U.S.-Arab counterterrorism strategy. title: These Are Today's Best Ideas image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 5 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 5, 2014 5:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 5, 2014 5:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**Beyond PTSD: Returning soldiers struggle to recover from the ‘moral injury’ of war.**](http://www.onbeing.org/blog/beyond-ptsd-to-moral-injury/5069 "undefined") By Jeff Severns Guntzel in On Being **2\.** [**On climate and so many other scientific issues, the way we communicate polarizes audiences. We can do better.**](http://chronicle.com/article/Seeking-a-Climate-Change/149707/ "undefined") By Paul Voosen in the Chronicle of Higher Education **3\.** [**Entrepreneurs and educators need to observe students in school if they want to make real change.**](https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-10-29-educators-and-entrepreneurs-get-thee-to-a-classroom-and-observe-students "undefined") By Alex Hernandez in EdSurge **4\.** [**Lifesaving ultrasound technology may soon come to a device the size of an iPhone. The applications for medicine in the developing world are massive.**](http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532166/with-100-million-entrepreneur-sees-path-to-disrupt-medical-imaging/ "undefined") By Antonio Regalado in MIT Technology Review **5\.** [**Many Arab governments are fueling the very extremism they purport to fight and are looking for U.S. cover. Washington should play the long game.**](http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/10/23/u.s.-arab-counterterrorism-cooperation-in-region-ripe-for-extremism/hskz "undefined") By Michele Dunne and Frederic Wehrey at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3558540/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-5/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3558540/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-5/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 5","datePublished":"2014-11-05T17:01:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:09.825Z","description":"Better recovery for wounded soldiers, improving science communication, embracing the student experience, affordable ultrasound, and holistic U.S.-Arab counterterrorism strategy.","url":"https://time.com/3558540/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-5/","keywords":["Innovation","medicine","climate change","Education","PTSD","U.S.","student","teacher","war","iPhone","Soldier","Science topic","democrat","communication","Republican","advertisements","Counterterrorism","entrepreneur","Islamic State","Arab"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3558540/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-5/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 5"}}]}] ```