--- title: Five Best: Why Math Says You’re Driving Wrong description: Math says you’re driving wrong, scientists are looking for ways to change our stomach fat so it burns faster and more. canonical: https://time.com/5084071/why-math-says-youre-driving-wrong/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-02T17:00:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:15.534Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why Math Says You’re Driving Wrong og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5084071/why-math-says-youre-driving-wrong/ 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: Why Math Says You’re Driving Wrong 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 --- # Why Math Says You’re Driving Wrong by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 2, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 2, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Math says you’re driving wrong, and it’s slowing us all down.**](https://www.wired.com/story/math-says-youre-driving-wrong-and-its-slowing-us-all-down/) By Matt Simon in _Wired_ **2\.** [**Scientists are looking for ways to change our stomach fat so it burns faster.**](http://media.ntu.edu.sg/NewsReleases/Pages/newsdetail.aspx?news=83082fd6-cf22-4cec-b055-8195d6509ee1) By _Nanyang Technical University_ **3\.** [**This is why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work.**](https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/12/28/16823266/medical-treatments-evidence-based-expensive-cost-stents) By Eric Patashnik at _Vox_ **4\.** [**This technology lets veterans ‘hear’ their PTSD — and retake control of their brainwaves.**](https://newatlas.com/ptsd-listen-brain-waves/52771/) By Michael Irving at _New Atlas_ **5\.** [**To research incurable genetic childhood diseases, scientists are altering pigs to match sick kids.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/turning-piglets-into-personalized-avatars-for-sick-kids/548204/?utm%5Fsource=atltw) By Ed Yong in the _Atlantic_  [_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/5084071/why-math-says-youre-driving-wrong/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5084071/why-math-says-youre-driving-wrong/"},"headline":"Why Math Says You’re Driving Wrong","datePublished":"2018-01-02T17:00:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:15.534Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5084071/why-math-says-youre-driving-wrong/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","medicine","Innovation","fat","PTSD","Disease","driving"],"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/5084071/why-math-says-youre-driving-wrong/","name":"Why Math Says You’re Driving Wrong"}}]}] ```