--- --- # Here's How Sleeping More on Weekends Could Save Your Life by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 5, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 5, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how sleeping more on weekends could save your life.**](https://psmag.com/next-weekend-feel-free-to-sleep-in-2944ca14701#.64bh77c9j) By Kate Wheeling in Pacific Standard **2\.** [**Americans are bargaining away their innocence.**](http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/americans-are-bargaining-away-their-innocence) By Tim Lynch at the Cato Institute **3\.** [**Technology is going to change almost everything we know about food. Here’s how.**](http://www.recode.net/2016/1/25/11589026/in-defense-of-food-technology) By Kara Nortman in Re/Code **4\.** [**Facebook makes us think we’re right — regardless of the facts.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-01-08/how-facebook-makes-us-dumber) By Cass R. Sunstein in Bloomberg View **5\.** [**You can’t trust what you read about nutrition.**](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition/) By Christie Aschwanden in FiveThirtyEight  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Here’s How Sleeping More on Weekends Could Save Your Life ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4440609/heres-how-sleeping-more-on-weekends-could-save-your-life/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4440609/heres-how-sleeping-more-on-weekends-could-save-your-life/"},"headline":"Here's How Sleeping More on Weekends Could Save Your Life","datePublished":"2016-08-05T16:00:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:37.274Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4440609/heres-how-sleeping-more-on-weekends-could-save-your-life/","keywords":["Innovation","Food","Nutrition","facebook","Criminal Justice","Sleeping"],"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/4440609/heres-how-sleeping-more-on-weekends-could-save-your-life/","name":"Here's How Sleeping More on Weekends Could Save Your Life"}}]}] ```