--- title: Five Best: Better Sleep Can Protect Us From Trauma description: Better sleep can help protect us from trauma, small and strategic cash infusions could fight poverty and more. canonical: https://time.com/5096767/better-sleep-can-protect-us-from-trauma/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-10T17:00:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:14.052Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Better Sleep Can Protect Us From Trauma og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5096767/better-sleep-can-protect-us-from-trauma/ 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: Better Sleep Can Protect Us From Trauma 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 --- # Better Sleep Can Protect Us From Trauma by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 10, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 10, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Can better sleep help protect us from trauma?**](https://massivesci.com/articles/better-rem-sleep-trauma/) By Brooke Dulka in _Massive_ **2\.** [**How small, strategic cash infusions could fight poverty.**](https://medium.com/@rachelschneider/small-dollar-help-a-big-idea-for-2018-9031e4208b6b) By Rachel Schneider in _Medium_ **3\.** [**Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to fix Facebook. It might be too late.**](https://shift.newco.co/its-the-advertising-model-stupid-b843cd7edbe9) By John Battelle in _NewCo Shift_ **4\.** [**Exercise doesn’t just make your heart stronger, it can reverse heart damage from aging.**](http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2018/exercise-aging-heart.html) By Carol Marie Cropper at _UT Southwestern Medical Center_ **5\.** [**Digital citizenship classes are becoming the new normal in American schools.**](http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/its-official-digital-citizenship-classes-are-the-new-normal-in-schools/82563) By Molly Fosco in _Ozy_  [_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/5096767/better-sleep-can-protect-us-from-trauma/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5096767/better-sleep-can-protect-us-from-trauma/"},"headline":"Better Sleep Can Protect Us From Trauma","datePublished":"2018-01-10T17:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:14.052Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5096767/better-sleep-can-protect-us-from-trauma/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Exercise","facebook","poverty","Trauma"],"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/5096767/better-sleep-can-protect-us-from-trauma/","name":"Better Sleep Can Protect Us From Trauma"}}]}] ```