--- title: Today's Best Ideas: Bribes, Brexit and Running description: We learn to take bribes at an early age, hackers don’t need to break into our most sensitive networks if they can just steal a key and more. canonical: https://time.com/4606349/bribes-brexit-running-best-ideas/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-19T17:00:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:13.555Z article:section: Ideas og:title: We Learn To Take Bribes At An Early Age og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4606349/bribes-brexit-running-best-ideas/ 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: We Learn To Take Bribes At An Early Age twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # We Learn To Take Bribes At An Early Age by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 19, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 19, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We learn to take bribes at an early age.**](http://news.yale.edu/2016/04/05/will-babies-deal-devil-only-when-price-right) By Bill Hathaway in YaleNews **2\.** [**Hackers don’t need to break into our most sensitive networks if they can just steal a key.**](http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2016/04/20/credential-stealing-as-attack-vector/#) By Bruce Schneier at Xconomy **3\.** [**Brexit is a smart move because the UK is holding the EU back.**](http://www.vox.com/2016/6/21/11974600/brexit-eu-euro-disaster) By Timothy B. Lee in Vox **4\.** [**Could mutual de-escalation break the cycle of police violence?**](http://qz.com/602682/the-case-for-disarming-americas-police-force/) By Noah Berlatsky in Quartz **5\.** [**This is why running clears your mind.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/04/how-neuroscientists-explain-the-mind-clearing-magic-of-running.html) By Melissa Dahl in Science of Us  [_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/4606349/bribes-brexit-running-best-ideas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4606349/bribes-brexit-running-best-ideas/"},"headline":"We Learn To Take Bribes At An Early Age","datePublished":"2016-12-19T17:00:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:13.555Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4606349/bribes-brexit-running-best-ideas/","keywords":["Innovation","Hacking","Running","Brexit"],"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/4606349/bribes-brexit-running-best-ideas/","name":"We Learn To Take Bribes At An Early Age"}}]}] ```