--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 26 description: Why it's time to break up the NSA, how the U.S. is putting security above human rights in Egypt, how AMSLAN adds internet slang, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3724025/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-26/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-26T17:01:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:22.262Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Why it's time to break up the NSA, how the U.S. is putting security above human rights in Egypt, how AMSLAN adds internet slang, and more. og:url: https://time.com/3724025/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-26/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: Why it's time to break up the NSA, how the U.S. is putting security above human rights in Egypt, how AMSLAN adds internet slang, and more. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 26 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 26, 2015 5:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 26, 2015 5:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**It’s time to break up the NSA.**](http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/opinion/schneier-nsa-too-big/index.html "undefined") By Bruce Schneier at CNN **2\.** [**By prescribing appearances, sororities are contributing to a culture of segregation.**](http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2015/02/25/sorority-segregation-is-a-serious-issue "undefined") By Clio Chang in U.S. News and World Report **3\.** [**In Egypt, the U.S. still values security over human rights.**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-obama-administration-refuses-to-break-its-silence-on-egypts-repression/2015/02/25/2518ce98-bd17-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9%5Fstory.html "undefined") By the Editorial Board of the Washington Post **4\.** [**Bartering for eggs is saving giant turtles in Cambodia.**](http://blog.conservation.org/2015/02/sometimes-all-you-need-to-protect-turtles-are-some-duck-eggs/ "undefined") By Yoeung Sun at Conservation International **5\.** [**How does Internet slang work its way into American Sign Language?**](http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/internet/168477-internet-american-sign-language "undefined") By Mike Sheffield, Antwan Duncan and Andrew Strasser in Hopes and Fears  [_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/3724025/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-26/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3724025/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-26/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 26","datePublished":"2015-02-26T17:01:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:22.262Z","description":"Why it's time to break up the NSA, how the U.S. is putting security above human rights in Egypt, how AMSLAN adds internet slang, and more.","url":"https://time.com/3724025/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-26/","keywords":["Innovation","NSA","National Security Agency","Conservation","John F. Kerry","Spying","Egypt","President Obama","State Department","Cairo","spies","segregation"],"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/3724025/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-26/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 26"}}]}] ```