--- title: Five Best: There’s No Plus Washing Your Hands with Hot Water description: There's no advantage to washing your hands with hot water, put down your phone if you want your kids to behave and more. canonical: https://time.com/4814552/theres-no-advantage-washing-your-hands-with-hot-water/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-12T16:00:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:46.485Z article:section: Ideas og:title: There’s No Advantage Washing Your Hands with Hot Water og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4814552/theres-no-advantage-washing-your-hands-with-hot-water/ 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: There’s No Advantage Washing Your Hands with Hot Water 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 --- # There’s No Advantage Washing Your Hands with Hot Water by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 12, 2017 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 12, 2017 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**No, there’s no advantage to washing your hands with hot water.**](http://news.rutgers.edu/research-news/handwashing-cool-water-effective-hot-removing-germs/20170529#.WTf7d2e1upq "undefined") By Robin Lally in _Rutgers Today_ **2\.** [**If you want your kids to behave, put down your phone.**](https://ifstudies.org/blog/technoference-in-parenting-is-your-mobile-device-distracting-you-from-your-child "undefined") By Brandon McDaniel at the _Institute for Family Studies_ **3\.** [**We’re only beginning to understand how architecture affects our emotions.**](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170605-the-psychology-behind-your-citys-design "undefined") By Michael Bond at _BBC Future_ **4\.** [**As Silicon Valley’s economic divide deepens, will the tech industry see an organized labor boom?**](http://www.salon.com/2017/06/10/a-labor-movement-is-brewing-within-the-tech-industry/ "undefined") By Angelo Young in _Salon_ **5\.** [**Here’s how behavioral economics can help people lose weight.**](https://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/news/cash-weight-loss "undefined") By the _Duke-NUS Medical School_  [_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/4814552/theres-no-advantage-washing-your-hands-with-hot-water/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4814552/theres-no-advantage-washing-your-hands-with-hot-water/"},"headline":"There’s No Advantage Washing Your Hands with Hot Water","datePublished":"2017-06-12T16:00:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:46.485Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4814552/theres-no-advantage-washing-your-hands-with-hot-water/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Economics","Innovation","Technology","health","Silicon Valley","architecture"],"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/4814552/theres-no-advantage-washing-your-hands-with-hot-water/","name":"There’s No Advantage Washing Your Hands with Hot Water"}}]}] ```