--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 9 description: Learn about: the ring of poverty around revived US cities, why it's ok that Russia is winding down space and WMD cooperation, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3737150/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-9/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-09T16:01:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:09.642Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Suburban poverty around revived cities, ending US-Russia cooperation, and more og:url: https://time.com/3737150/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-9/ 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: Suburban poverty around revived cities, ending US-Russia cooperation, and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 9 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 9, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 9, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Take a data dive to see how a ring of suburban poverty is appearing around America’s revived cities.**](http://statchatva.org/changing-shape-of-american-cities/) By Luke Juday at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia **2\.** [**Don’t worry about Russia giving up on nuclear cooperation and the International Space Station.**](http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2015/02/27/dont-worry-about-russia-backing-away-from-space-and-wmd-cooperation) By Lisa Saum-Manning in U.S. News & World Report **3\.** [**Scientists reverse-engineered social networks to learn how to fight HIV among homeless youth by word of mouth.**](http://www.fastcoexist.com/3043089/modelling-how-information-spreads-by-word-of-mouth-is-helping-stop-hiv) By Jessica Leber in Fast Co.Exist **4\.** [**A Pyrenees pipeline could weaken Putin’s grip on European energy.**](http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/150302/how-pyrenees-pipeline-could-weaken-putin-s-grip-european-energy) By Paul Ames in Global Post **5\.** [**For developmentally disabled kids, the benefits of organized sports are huge.**](http://qz.com/355855/for-developmentally-disabled-kids-the-benefits-of-organized-sports-are-huge/) By Darrin Steele in Quartz  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3737150/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-9/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3737150/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-9/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 9","datePublished":"2015-03-09T16:01:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:09.642Z","description":"Learn about: the ring of poverty around revived US cities, why it's ok that Russia is winding down space and WMD cooperation, and more.","url":"https://time.com/3737150/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-9/","keywords":["Innovation","russia","Sports topic","Autism","Space","poverty","Youth","U.S.","Pipeline","Spain","Natural gas","cities","HIV","Suburbs","iss","portugal","urban"],"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/3737150/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-9/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 9"}}]}] ```