--- description: Exercising is contagious especially if you’re a man, we could help millions of Americans if we changed the way we sell hearing aids &more. title: Exercise Is Contagious image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Five Best Ideas](/tag/five-best-ideas/) ## Five Best Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Exercise Is Contagious by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 24, 2017 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 24, 2017 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Exercising is contagious — especially if you’re a man.**](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/turns-out-exercise-is-contagious/ "undefined") By the MIT Sloan School of Management **2\.** [**We could help millions of Americans if we changed the way we sell hearing aids.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/24/524946910/is-it-time-for-hearing-aids-to-be-sold-over-the-counter "undefined") By Patti Neighmond and Jane Greenhalgh at _NPR_ **3\.** [**How tens of thousands of people playing a multiplayer video game are hunting for alien worlds.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604197/inside-an-intergalactic-video-game-a-search-for-real-alien-worlds/ "undefined") By Simon Parkin in the _MIT Technology Review_ **4\.** [**Unlocking the secrets of ‘aha moments’ to discover better ways of learning.**](https://news.osu.edu/news/2017/04/17/aha-moment/ "undefined") By Jeff Grabmeier at the _Ohio State University_ **5\.** [**Technology is drawing the world closer together — and tearing us apart, too.**](https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/04/21/how-technology-created-global-village-and-put-each-other-throats/pu7MyoAkdyVComb9aKyu6K/story.html "undefined") By Nicholas Carr in the _Boston Globe_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4752513/exercise-is-contagious/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4752513/exercise-is-contagious/"},"headline":"Exercise Is Contagious","datePublished":"2017-04-24T16:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:54.473Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4752513/exercise-is-contagious/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Exercise","Video Games","Technology","learning"],"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/4752513/exercise-is-contagious/","name":"Exercise Is Contagious"}}]}] ```