--- title: Health: How Napping Is Good for You description: The benefits of napping, how tax evasion powers global inequality, the upside of ending free movement inside the EU, and more. canonical: https://time.com/4057694/nap-good-for-you/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-01T16:01:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:24.399Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Napping Is Good for You og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4057694/nap-good-for-you/ 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: How Napping Is Good for You twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Napping Is Good for You by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 1, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 1, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Take a nap. It’s good for you.**](http://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/Last-5-years/Midday-naps-associated-with-reduced-blood-pressure-and-fewer-medications) By the European Society of Cardiology **2\.** [**Tax evasion is fueling global economic inequality.**](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/10/how-tax-evasion-is-fueling-inequality.html) By Annie Lowrey in New York Magazine **3\.** [**Could the end of free movement inside the EU be a good thing?**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/refugee-crisis-end-of-schengen-by-bill-emmott-2015-10) By Bill Emmott in Project Syndicate **4\.** [**These worms can turn non-recyclable plastic waste into compost.**](http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/september/worms-digest-plastics-092915.html) By Rob Jordan at Stanford University **5\.** [**There’s a hidden inequality behind who dies in car crashes.**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/01/the-hidden-inequality-of-who-dies-in-car-crashes/) By Emily Badger and Christopher Ingraham in the Washington Post  [_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/4057694/nap-good-for-you/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4057694/nap-good-for-you/"},"headline":"How Napping Is Good for You","datePublished":"2015-10-01T16:01:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:24.399Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4057694/nap-good-for-you/","keywords":["Innovation","Sleep","Refugees","Taxes","eu","recycling"],"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/4057694/nap-good-for-you/","name":"How Napping Is Good for You"}}]}] ```