--- description: Money can buy happiness up to a point, hospitals are looking to a machine learning and more. title: Money Buys Happiness Up to a Point image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Five Best Ideas](/tag/five-best-ideas/) ## Five Best Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Money Buys Happiness Up to a Point by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 15, 2018 5:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 15, 2018 5:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Money can buy happiness — up to a point.**](http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q1/money-only-buys-happiness-for-a-certain-amount.html "undefined") By _Purdue University_ **2\.** [**To fight deadly infections, hospitals are looking to a new ally: machine learning.**](https://khn.org/news/the-training-of-dr-robot-data-wave-hits-medical-care/ "undefined") By John McQuaid in _Kaiser Health News_ **3\.** [**To curb the nation’s leading cause of death, heart cells may one day be programmed to repair themselves.**](http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2018/february/study-maps-molecular-mechanisms-crucial-for-new-approach-to-heart-disease-therapy "undefined") By _UNC Healthcare_ **4\.** [**Do we get too much information about pregnancy from TV?**](http://magazine.uc.edu/editors%5Fpicks/recent%5Ffeatures/pregnancyTV.html%20.html "undefined") By Melanie Schefft at the _University of Cincinnati_ **5\.** [**America’s soft power is slipping away.**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-american-soft-power-decline-by-joseph-s--nye-2018-02 "undefined") By Joseph S. Nye in _Project Syndicate_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5160231/money-buys-happiness-up-to-a-point/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5160231/money-buys-happiness-up-to-a-point/"},"headline":"Money Buys Happiness Up to a Point","datePublished":"2018-02-15T17:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:06.291Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5160231/money-buys-happiness-up-to-a-point/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Pregnancy","Happiness","health","Power"],"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/5160231/money-buys-happiness-up-to-a-point/","name":"Money Buys Happiness Up to a Point"}}]}] ```