--- title: Five Best Ideas: The First Song Was a Lullaby description: Was the first song a lullaby, we need to think differently about protein and more. canonical: https://time.com/4687050/the-first-song-was-a-lullaby/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-01T17:00:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:01.828Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The First Song Was a Lullaby og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4687050/the-first-song-was-a-lullaby/ 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: The First Song Was a Lullaby twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The First Song Was a Lullaby by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 1, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 1, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Was the first song a lullaby?**](https://psmag.com/was-the-first-song-a-lullaby-4fbce17d3c6#.j16ec9q7g) By Tom Jacobs in _Pacific Standard_ **2\.** [**To feed 9 billion people, we need to think differently about protein.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/01/opinions/protein-challenge-2040-driscoll/index.html) By Mark Driscoll at _CNN_ **3\.** [**When we read news on social media, we’re less likely to look at the source. That’s not good.**](http://mediashift.org/2017/02/americans-access-digital-news/) By Bianca Fortis at _MediaShift_ **4\.** [**This is why we need cultural criticism in the age of Trump.**](https://newrepublic.com/article/140908/defense-cultural-criticism-trumps-america) By Josephine Livingstone in the _New Republic_ **5\.** [**Here is why it’s so hard for good ideas to survive in the workplace.**](http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170227-this-is-why-the-boss-will-crush-all-your-good-ideas) By Simon Constable at _BBC Capital_  [_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/4687050/the-first-song-was-a-lullaby/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4687050/the-first-song-was-a-lullaby/"},"headline":"The First Song Was a Lullaby","datePublished":"2017-03-01T17:00:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:01.828Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4687050/the-first-song-was-a-lullaby/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Social Media","Innovation","Food","Music","productivity"],"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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4687050/the-first-song-was-a-lullaby/","name":"The First Song Was a Lullaby"}}]}] ```