--- --- # How Damaged Brains Can Learn From Healthy Ones by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 22, 2015 4:37 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 22, 2015 4:37 PM UTC **1\.** [**Could damaged brains learn to heal from healthy ones?**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/linking-multiple-minds-could-help-damaged-brains-heal-180955965/) By Brian Handwerk at Smithsonian Magazine **2\.** [**From VOA to Radio Free Europe, the U.S. needs a single news voice abroad.**](http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/07/voa-radio-free-europe-us-needs-single-news-voice-abroad/117979/) By Al Pessin at Defense One **3\.** [**Here’s how the dwindling teacher supply is complicating education reform.**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2015/07/20-teacher-supply-bruno) By Paul Bruno in the Brown Center Chalkboard at the Brookings Institution **4\.** [**The mobile web sucks.**](http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/20/9002721/the-mobile-web-sucks) By Nilay Patel in the Verge **5\.** [**What’s better than a clinical trial for understanding drug side effects?**](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730302-800-cyberchondriacs-act-as-early-warning-of-drugs-side-effects/) By Aviva Rutkin in New Scientist  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Science: How Damaged Brains Can Learn From Healthy Ones ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3967569/damaged-brains-healthy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3967569/damaged-brains-healthy/"},"headline":"How Damaged Brains Can Learn From Healthy Ones","datePublished":"2015-07-22T16:37:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:21.828Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3967569/damaged-brains-healthy/","keywords":["Innovation","medicine","Brain","iPhone","Teachers"],"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/3967569/damaged-brains-healthy/","name":"How Damaged Brains Can Learn From Healthy Ones"}}]}] ```