--- title: Five Best: Trick Your Heart Into Thinking You Exercise description: It’s possible to trick your heart into thinking you exercise, ships are returning to old-fashioned radio signals and more. canonical: https://time.com/4893003/you-can-trick-your-heart-into-thinking-you-exercise/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-09T16:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:35.980Z article:section: Ideas og:title: You Can Trick Your Heart Into Thinking You Exercise og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4893003/you-can-trick-your-heart-into-thinking-you-exercise/ 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: You Can Trick Your Heart Into Thinking You Exercise 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 --- # You Can Trick Your Heart Into Thinking You Exercise by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 9, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 9, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**It’s possible to trick your heart into thinking you exercise.**](http://www.ohri.ca/newsroom/newsstory.asp?ID=951) By the _Ottawa Hospital Research Institute_ **2\.** [**Satellite GPS is vulnerable to hacking, so ships are returning to old-fashioned radio signals.**](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-shipping-gps-cyber-idUSKBN1AN0HT) By Jonathan Saul at _Reuters_ **3\.** [**Here’s how a microbe in your intestine might help fight auto-immune diseases like multiple sclerosis.**](http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/human-gut-microbe-may-lead-to-treatment-for-multiple-sclerosis/) By Bob Nellis at the _Mayo Clinic_ **4\.** [**That ‘free sample’ isn’t free. Understanding persuasion can make us smarter consumers.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/health/science-of-persuasion-study/index.html) By Ben Tinker at _CNN_ **5\.** [**Big data — and tax breaks — can save small towns.**](https://www.outsideonline.com/2231051/living-cloud?curator=MediaREDEF) By Abe Streep in _Outside_  [_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/4893003/you-can-trick-your-heart-into-thinking-you-exercise/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4893003/you-can-trick-your-heart-into-thinking-you-exercise/"},"headline":"You Can Trick Your Heart Into Thinking You Exercise","datePublished":"2017-08-09T16:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:35.980Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4893003/you-can-trick-your-heart-into-thinking-you-exercise/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Exercise","GPS","Data topic"],"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/4893003/you-can-trick-your-heart-into-thinking-you-exercise/","name":"You Can Trick Your Heart Into Thinking You Exercise"}}]}] ```