--- --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 2 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 2, 2015 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 2, 2015 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**“Whenever there is conflict, the women and children are the first victims.” Here’s why we need more female peacekeepers.**](http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/issues/women/womeninpk.shtml) By United Nations Peacekeeping **2\.** [**ISIS is raising money and hatching plots on the “dark web.” The NSA is watching closely.**](http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/02/how-military-will-fight-isis-dark-web/105948/) By Patrick Tucker in Defense One **3\.** [**Schools in one South Carolina town want to extend their supportive environment to school buses. It’s paying off.**](http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/a-town-where-a-school-bus-is-more-than-a-bus/) By Sam Chaltain in the New York Times **4\.** [**Eyewitness testimony is the “number one cause of wrongful convictions.” We can make it better.**](http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/02/27/how-make-eyewitness-evidence-more-reliable/0VcxPJW3F996nXSMmaNI5L/story.html?camp=id) By Kevin Hartnett in The Boston Globe **5\.** [**Data centers consume and waste massive amounts of energy. So Microsoft is powering one with methane from wastewater.**](http://insideenergy.org/2015/01/27/wyoming-hosts-first-waste-powered-data-center-in-u-s/) By Leigh Paterson in Inside Energy  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 2 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3728278/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3728278/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-2/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 2","datePublished":"2015-03-02T17:01:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:18.542Z","description":"The power of female peacekeepers, chasing ISIS on the dark web, improving eyewitness testimony, methane power for data centers and more.","url":"https://time.com/3728278/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-2/","keywords":["Innovation","School","Education","ISIS","Power","methane","Discipline"],"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/3728278/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-2/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 2"}}]}] ```