--- title: Soliders that lack Fear: 5 Best Ideas of the Day description: Making soldiers who lack fear, 'see-through' trucks for highway safety, how workplace wellness becomes coercion and more. canonical: https://time.com/3935095/creating-soldiers-who-lack-fear/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-25T16:02:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:49.440Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Creating Soldiers Who Lack Fear og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3935095/creating-soldiers-who-lack-fear/ 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: Creating Soldiers Who Lack Fear twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Creating Soldiers Who Lack Fear by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 25, 2015 4:02 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 25, 2015 4:02 PM UTC **1\.** [**The Pentagon wants to make soldiers literally fearless.**](http://mic.com/articles/121287/the-department-of-defense-wants-to-use-science-to-make-soldiers-literally-fearless) By Max Plenke in Mic **2\.** [**Could ‘see-through’ trucks make highways safer?**](http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2015/0624/Could-see-through-trucks-make-highways-safer) By Sarah Caspari in the Christian Science Monitor **3\.** [**Are workplace wellness programs becoming worker harassment?**](http://khn.org/news/when-does-a-workplace-wellness-program-become-coercive-rather-than-voluntary/) By Julie Appleby in Kaiser Health News **4\.** [**Roses are red, condoms are blue…if you have syphilis.**](http://www.cnet.com/news/color-changing-condom-shows-presence-of-stds/) By Danny Gallagher at CNet **5\.** [**A simple way to pull pure hydrogen out of water could give us unlimited, clean-burning fuel.**](http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/june/water-splitter-catalyst-062315.html) By Mark Shwartz in Stanford News  [_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/3935095/creating-soldiers-who-lack-fear/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3935095/creating-soldiers-who-lack-fear/"},"headline":"Creating Soldiers Who Lack Fear","datePublished":"2015-06-25T16:02:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:49.440Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3935095/creating-soldiers-who-lack-fear/","keywords":["Innovation","trucks","Soldier","Wellness","Batteries"],"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/3935095/creating-soldiers-who-lack-fear/","name":"Creating Soldiers Who Lack Fear"}}]}] ```