--- title: Your Sunscreen Is Lying to You description: Your sunscreen is lying to you, hosting the Olympics is a terrible investment and more. canonical: https://time.com/4455844/your-sunscreen-is-lying-to-you/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-17T16:00:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:35.909Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Your Sunscreen is Lying to You og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4455844/your-sunscreen-is-lying-to-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: Your Sunscreen is Lying to 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 --- # Your Sunscreen Is Lying to You by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 17, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 17, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Your sunscreen is lying to you.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/08/psychology-of-spf/495542/?utm%5Fsource=atltw) By James Hamblin in the Atlantic **2\.** [**Hosting the Olympics is a terrible investment.**](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hosting-the-olympics-is-a-terrible-investment/) By Clay Dillow in FiveThirtyEight **3\.** [**A good high school student will be a good college student, right? Wrong.**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/07/20-high-school-courses-college-performance-ferenstein-hershbein) By Gregory Ferenstein and Brad Hershbein at the Brookings Institution **4\.** [**We need a new grand bargain with Russia.**](http://time.com/4452328/grand-bargain-russia/) By James Stavridis in Time **5\.** [**This folding paper helmet could make bike-sharing a lot safer.**](http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2016/08/the-collapsible-helmet-that-could-revolutionize-bike-share-safety/494990/) By Eillie Anzilotti in CityLab  [_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/4455844/your-sunscreen-is-lying-to-you/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4455844/your-sunscreen-is-lying-to-you/"},"headline":"Your Sunscreen Is Lying to You","datePublished":"2016-08-17T16:00:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:35.909Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4455844/your-sunscreen-is-lying-to-you/","keywords":["Innovation","russia","olympics","Education","sunscreen"],"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/4455844/your-sunscreen-is-lying-to-you/","name":"Your Sunscreen Is Lying to You"}}]}] ```