--- title: Five Best: We Need More Science & Philosophy Books for Kids description: We need more science and philosophy books for children, your commute might be more dangerous than you think and more. canonical: https://time.com/4870793/we-need-more-science-and-philosophy-books-for-kids/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-24T16:00:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:39.311Z article:section: Ideas og:title: We Need More Science and Philosophy Books for Kids og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4870793/we-need-more-science-and-philosophy-books-for-kids/ 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 Need More Science and Philosophy Books for Kids 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 --- # We Need More Science and Philosophy Books for Kids by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 24, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 24, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We need more science and philosophy books for children.**](http://nautil.us/blog/the-case-for-more-science-and-philosophy-books-for-children) By Massimo Pigliucci in _Nautilus_ **2\.** [**Your commute might be more dangerous than you think.**](http://pratt.duke.edu/news/rush-hour-pollution) By Ken Kingery at _Duke University_ **3\.** [**If you think you’re slacking on exercise — even if you’re not — your health will suffer.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/20/538157820/just-thinking-youre-slacking-on-exercise-could-boost-risk-of-death) By Angus Chen at _NPR_ **4\.** [**When we finally go to Mars, we’ll probably end up living in giant metal cans.**](http://www.popsci.com/lockheed-martin-will-build-deep-space-habitat-inside-space-shuttle-cargo-container) By Sarah Fecht in _Popular Science_ **5\.** [**How to make bike sharing more diverse.**](https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/07/what-keeps-bike-share-white/533412/) By Benjamin Schneider in _CityLab_  [_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/4870793/we-need-more-science-and-philosophy-books-for-kids/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4870793/we-need-more-science-and-philosophy-books-for-kids/"},"headline":"We Need More Science and Philosophy Books for Kids","datePublished":"2017-07-24T16:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:39.311Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4870793/we-need-more-science-and-philosophy-books-for-kids/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Transportation","Innovation","Exercise","Mars","Commute","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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4870793/we-need-more-science-and-philosophy-books-for-kids/","name":"We Need More Science and Philosophy Books for Kids"}}]}] ```