--- title: Your Local Library Also Happens to be a Newsroom description: Your local library also happens to be a newsroom, humankind has reached its peak and more. canonical: https://time.com/5058691/your-local-library-also-happens-to-be-a-newsroom/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-11T17:00:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:17.230Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Your Local Library Also Happens to be a Newsroom og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5058691/your-local-library-also-happens-to-be-a-newsroom/ 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: Your Local Library Also Happens to be a Newsroom 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 --- # Your Local Library Also Happens to be a Newsroom by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 11, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 11, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Welcome to your local library, which also happens to be a newsroom.**](https://www.poynter.org/news/welcome-your-local-library-which-also-happens-be-newsroom) By David Beard at _Poynter_ **2\.** [**Humankind has reached its peak — in height, lifespan and physical fitness.**](http://www.newsweek.com/humans-reached-peak-height-lifespan-fitness-741816) By Amanda Onion in _Newsweek_ **3\.** [**Robots will transform fast food — and that might not be a bad thing.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/iron-chefs/546581/) By Alana Semuels in the _Atlantic_ **4\.** [**With a simple test, patients with anxiety can learn whether drugs or talk therapy will work better.**](https://today.uic.edu/quick-evaluation-can-predict-whether-drugs-talk-therapy-work-better-for-anxiety-patients) By the _University of Illinois_ **5\.** [**Nearly half of U.S. households don’t save for emergencies. Should employers make emergency savings automatic?**](https://www.plansponsor.com/argument-auto-enroll-emergency-savings/) By John Manganaro in _PlanSponsor_  [_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/5058691/your-local-library-also-happens-to-be-a-newsroom/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5058691/your-local-library-also-happens-to-be-a-newsroom/"},"headline":"Your Local Library Also Happens to be a Newsroom","datePublished":"2017-12-11T17:00:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:17.230Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5058691/your-local-library-also-happens-to-be-a-newsroom/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Anxiety","robots","finance","Library"],"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/5058691/your-local-library-also-happens-to-be-a-newsroom/","name":"Your Local Library Also Happens to be a Newsroom"}}]}] ```