--- title: Staying Awake Could Combat Depression description: Could staying awake combat depression, could Germany build a nuclear deterrent if the U.S. pulls back from NATO and more. canonical: https://time.com/4596541/staying-awake-could-combat-depression/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-09T17:00:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:15.226Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Staying Awake Could Combat Depression og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4596541/staying-awake-could-combat-depression/ 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: Staying Awake Could Combat Depression twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Staying Awake Could Combat Depression by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 9, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 9, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Could staying awake combat depression?**](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fighting-depression-by-staying-awake/) By Louisa J. Steinberg in Scientific American **2\.** [**If the U.S. pulls back from NATO, could Germany build a nuclear deterrent?**](http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/12/06/sudden-german-nuke-flirtation-pub-66366) By Ulrich Kühn at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace **3\.** [**Want to improve wind and solar power? Bring them together.**](https://ensia.com/articles/renewable-energy-wind-solar/) By Ben Jervey in Ensia **4\.** [**Women use cities differently from men. Urban design should reflect that.**](https://www.fastcoexist.com/3066264/how-to-build-the-perfect-city/women-and-men-use-cities-very-differently) By Alexander Starritt at Co.Exist **5\.** [**Declining racism might make racists more racist.**](http://www.slate.com/articles/health%5Fand%5Fscience/science/2016/12/does%5Ffighting%5Fracism%5Fmake%5Fracists%5Fmore%5Fracist.html) By Daniel Engber in Slate  [_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/4596541/staying-awake-could-combat-depression/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4596541/staying-awake-could-combat-depression/"},"headline":"Staying Awake Could Combat Depression","datePublished":"2016-12-09T17:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:15.226Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4596541/staying-awake-could-combat-depression/","keywords":["Innovation","Depression","Racism","Renewable energy","NATO"],"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/4596541/staying-awake-could-combat-depression/","name":"Staying Awake Could Combat Depression"}}]}] ```