--- --- # Give Small Cities a Chance by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 1, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 1, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Give small cities a chance.**](https://slate.com/business/2018/02/small-cities-and-rural-areas-deserve-revitalization.html) By Henry Grabar in _Slate_ **2\.** [**Stereotypes are holding Asian Americans back in STEM careers.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/asian-americans-science-math-bias/551903/) By Joan C. Williams, Marina Multhaup and Rachel Korn in the _Atlantic_ **3\.** [**The U.S. military is losing the war against data leakage.**](http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/01/stravas-just-start-us-militarys-losing-war-against-data-leakage/145632/) By Patrick Tucker at _Defense One_ **4\.** [**This database will help you and retailers know if your seafood was caught with slave labor.**](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/01/582214032/was-your-seafood-caught-with-slave-labor-new-database-helps-retailers-combat-abu) By Clare Leschin-Hoar at _NPR_ **5\.** [**A ‘pacemaker’ for the brain might slow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease.**](https://www.livescience.com/61573-alzheimers-brain-pacemaker.html) By Rachael Rettner in _Live Science_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Give Small Cities a Chance ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5128573/give-small-cities-a-chance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5128573/give-small-cities-a-chance/"},"headline":"Give Small Cities a Chance","datePublished":"2018-02-01T17:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:10.055Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5128573/give-small-cities-a-chance/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Military","Innovation","STEM","cities","Alzheimer's","seafood"],"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/5128573/give-small-cities-a-chance/","name":"Give Small Cities a Chance"}}]}] ```