--- --- # Get Kids Outside by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 8, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 8, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**To improve learning and motivate kids, get them outside.**](https://www.tum.de/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/detail/article/34434/) By the _Technical University of Munich_ **2\.** [**Why is suicide risk so high for doctors?**](http://www.mdmag.com/medical-news/suffering-in-silence-the-scourge-of-physician-suicide) By Matt Hoffman and Kevin Kunzmann in _MD Magazine_ **3\.** [**This super wood is stronger than steel — and could replace it as a building material.**](https://eng.umd.edu/news/story/super-wood-could-replace-steel) By the _A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland_ **4\.** [**Decolonization is freeing South Africa to reshape its approach to science and tell its own story.**](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01696-w) By Linda Nordling in _Nature_ **5\.** [**To care for their aging population, Japan is looking to robots. Is the U.S. next?**](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/06/japan-robots-will-care-for-80-of-elderly-by-2020) By Daniel Hurst in the _Guardian_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Get Kids Outside ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5139336/get-kids-outside/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5139336/get-kids-outside/"},"headline":"Get Kids Outside","datePublished":"2018-02-08T17:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:08.496Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5139336/get-kids-outside/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","South Africa","Suicide","Innovation","Aging","kids","building"],"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/5139336/get-kids-outside/","name":"Get Kids Outside"}}]}] ```