--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 1 description: A two-step process for avoiding another Germanwings disaster, how to boost study abroad opportunities for black Americans and more. canonical: https://time.com/3766837/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-1/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-01T16:01:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:46.038Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: A two-step process for avoiding another Germanwings disaster, and more og:url: https://time.com/3766837/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-1/ 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: A two-step process for avoiding another Germanwings disaster, and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 1 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 1, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 1, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Screenings can identify a suicidal person, but the actions taken after the screening to decrease stigma and deliver help have a better chance of averting disaster.**](http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/03/31/two-step-approach-to-preventing-next-germanwings-disaster/) By Christopher and Jennifer Gandin Le at Reuters **2\.** [**Only five percent of Americans who study abroad are black. That deepens other cultural divisions.**](http://weeklywonk.newamerica.net/articles/moment-black-travel-movement/) By Brandon Tensley in the New America Foundation Weekly Wonk **3\.** [**Game theory holds that cooperation in nature is essential to survival. But new research asks if the game can be rigged.**](https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150212-game-theory-calls-cooperation-into-question/) By Emily Singer in Quanta **4\.** [**Most of us believe we can achieve the American Dream if we just work hard. Today’s equality gap shows we’re dead wrong.**](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/economic-inequality-it-s-far-worse-than-you-think/) By Nicholas Fitz in Scientific American **5\.** [**Learning from the past: A thousand year-old Anglo Saxon remedy was just proven effective against hospital superbug MRSA.**](http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27263-anglo-saxon-remedy-kills-hospital-superbug-mrsa.html#.VRtk05PF%5F0o) By Clare Wilson in New Scientist  [_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/3766837/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-1/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3766837/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-1/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 1","datePublished":"2015-04-01T16:01:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:46.038Z","description":"A two-step process for avoiding another Germanwings disaster, how to boost study abroad opportunities for black Americans and more.","url":"https://time.com/3766837/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-1/","keywords":["Innovation","Depression","Suicide","poverty","Research","Bacteria","mrsa"],"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/3766837/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-1/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 1"}}]}] ```