--- title: Five Best: A Quick Saliva Test Could Diagnose a Concussion description: A quick saliva test could help diagnose a concussion, citizens need to build their own internet to defend Net Neutrality and more. canonical: https://time.com/5034330/a-quick-saliva-test-could-help-diagnose-a-concussion/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-22T18:00:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:19.617Z article:section: Ideas og:title: A Quick Saliva Test Could Help Diagnose a Concussion og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5034330/a-quick-saliva-test-could-help-diagnose-a-concussion/ 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: A Quick Saliva Test Could Help Diagnose a Concussion 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 --- # A Quick Saliva Test Could Help Diagnose a Concussion by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 22, 2017 6:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 22, 2017 6:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**How a quick saliva test could help diagnose and predict the duration of a concussion.**](http://news.psu.edu/story/495094/2017/11/20/research/molecules-spit-may-be-able-diagnose-and-predict-length-concussions) By Katie Bohn at _Penn State University_ **2\.** [**To truly defend Net Neutrality, citizens need to build their own internet.**](https://motherboard.vice.com/en%5Fus/article/7x4y8a/net-neutrality-fcc-community-networks) By Jason Koebler in _Motherboard_ **3\.** [**Cities may be making a resurgence, but America’s future is still the suburbs.**](http://www.ocregister.com/2017/11/18/the-future-of-americas-suburbs-looks-infinite/) By Joel Kotkin and Alan M. Berger in the _Orange County Register_ **4\.** [**To make nonprofits effective, funders must invest in people, not just programs.**](http://cep.org/funders-support-nonprofit-people/) By Rusty Stahl at the _Center for Effective Philanthropy_ **5\.** [**Is citizen science a trojan horse for a big business takeover of scientific discovery?**](https://aeon.co/essays/is-grassroots-citizen-science-a-front-for-big-business) By Philip Mirowski in _Aeon_  [_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/5034330/a-quick-saliva-test-could-help-diagnose-a-concussion/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5034330/a-quick-saliva-test-could-help-diagnose-a-concussion/"},"headline":"A Quick Saliva Test Could Help Diagnose a Concussion","datePublished":"2017-11-22T18:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:19.617Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5034330/a-quick-saliva-test-could-help-diagnose-a-concussion/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","concussions","cities","Net neutrality","Business"],"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/5034330/a-quick-saliva-test-could-help-diagnose-a-concussion/","name":"A Quick Saliva Test Could Help Diagnose a Concussion"}}]}] ```