--- description: Why your taste buds get duller as you age, schedule breaks at work and more. title: School Bullying Is Down. Why Don’t Kids Believe It? 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 * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # School Bullying Is Down. Why Don’t Kids Believe It? by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 15, 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 May 15, 2017 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**School bullying is down. Why don’t kids believe it?**](https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/05/11/school-bullying-is-down-why-dont-students-believe-it/ "undefined") By Anya Kamenetz in _KQED’s MindShift_ **2\.** [**Want to boost your performance at work? Don’t just take breaks, schedule them.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/05/to-get-the-most-out-of-your-breaks-try-scheduling-them.html "undefined") By Cari Romm in the _Science of Us_ **3\.** [**Yes, your taste buds are getting duller as you age. Here’s why.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/05/526750174/why-taste-buds-dull-as-we-age "undefined") By Natalie Jacewicz at _NPR’s the Salt_ **4\.** [**Finally, here is a scientifically proven way to shorten the duration of your cold.**](https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/common-cold-duration-is-shortened-similarly-by-zinc-acetate-and-zinc-gluconate-lozenges "undefined") By the _University of Helsinki_ **5\.** [**This is how reproductive healthcare for women can protect the rainforest.**](https://motherboard.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/even-the-rainforest-is-better-off-when-women-have-reproductive-healthcare "undefined") By Kaleigh Rogers in _Motherboard_  [_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/4778926/school-bullying-taste-buds-cold/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4778926/school-bullying-taste-buds-cold/"},"headline":"School Bullying Is Down. Why Don’t Kids Believe It?","datePublished":"2017-05-15T16:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:51.309Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4778926/school-bullying-taste-buds-cold/","keywords":["Innovation","health","Bullying","illness","productivity","Science"],"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/4778926/school-bullying-taste-buds-cold/","name":"School Bullying Is Down. Why Don’t Kids Believe It?"}}]}] ```