--- description: The lessons of Bhopal, Tim Cook comes out, why science reporting matters, texting to beat Malaria and how an asteroid can take us to Mars. title: These Are Today's Best Ideas 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 * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 30 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 30, 2014 4:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 30, 2014 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**Thirty years after the world’s worst chemical plant disaster, we must do more to avoid repeating that calamity.**](http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/bhopal-india-chemicalplantsafetyepaenvironment.html "undefined") By Anna Lappé in Al Jazeera America **2\.** [**Taking medicine on a schedule is key to fighting Malaria, and simple text message reminders are proving remarkably effective.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2014/10/text-messages-as-an-anti-malaria-measure.html "undefined") By Jesse Singal in New York Magazine’s Science of Us **3\.** [**The next step for human exploration of space is interplanetary travel, and asteroids are great stepping stones. We should go to the asteroid, not bring one to us.**](http://www.nature.com/news/human-spaceflight-find-asteroids-to-get-to-mars-1.16216 "undefined") By Richard P. Binzel in Nature **4\.** [**Science reporting in American media has nearly disappeared, and the Ebola coverage shows we’re worse for it.**](http://www.cjr.org/opening%5Fshot/ebola%5Fscare%5Fspotlights%5Fmedias.php "undefined") By the Editors of the Columbia Journalism Review **5\.** [**By coming out as the first gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Apple’s Tim Cook topples a lingering and outmoded bias.**](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay "undefined") By Tim Cook in Bloomberg Businessweek  [_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/3548327/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-30/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3548327/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-30/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 30","datePublished":"2014-10-30T16:01:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:13.638Z","description":"The lessons of Bhopal, Tim Cook comes out, why science reporting matters, texting to beat Malaria and how an asteroid can take us to Mars.","url":"https://time.com/3548327/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-30/","keywords":["Innovation","Africa","Apple","NASA","texting","Mars","Science topic","Tim cook","gay","Malaria","ebola"],"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/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3548327/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-october-30/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 30"}}]}] ```