--- --- # We Can Soon Erase Our Fear Memories by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 18, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 18, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Soon, we could erase our fear memories.**](https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/48496) By Iqbal Pittalwala at _UC Riverside_ **2\.** [**Can Silicon Valley disrupt its Neo-Nazi problem?**](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/can-silicon-valley-disrupt-its-neo-nazi-problem) By Nick Bilton in _Vanity Fair_ **3\.** [**Renewable energy subsidies make sense — and they’ve saved thousands of lives.**](https://qz.com/1054992/renewable-subsidies-are-already-paying-for-themselves/) By Akshat Rathi in _Quartz_ **4\.** [**The solution for surging antibiotic resistance might be to slow down bacteria instead of killing it.**](https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/544766) By Steph Adams at the _University of Illinois_ **5\.** [**This self-healing rubber could make flat tires a thing of the past.**](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2017/08/harvard-researchers-develop-tough-self-healing-rubber) By Leah Burrows at the _Harvard Paulson School_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: We Can Soon Erase Our Fear Memories ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4906429/we-can-soon-erase-our-fear-memories/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4906429/we-can-soon-erase-our-fear-memories/"},"headline":"We Can Soon Erase Our Fear Memories","datePublished":"2017-08-18T16:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:34.154Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4906429/we-can-soon-erase-our-fear-memories/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","cars","Silicon Valley","Renewable energy","antibiotics"],"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/4906429/we-can-soon-erase-our-fear-memories/","name":"We Can Soon Erase Our Fear Memories"}}]}] ```