--- description: Tracking gender gaps, markets for water, nursing non-Ebola patients in Liberia, and how the rich could buy us all cures for rare diseases. 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: November 3 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 3, 2014 6:06 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 3, 2014 6:06 PM CUT **1\.** [**“Ultimately, gender equality is a vital part of humanity’s progress. ” Read the 2014 Gender Gap Report.**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APO75%5F9svCA#t=11 "undefined") By the World Economic Forum **2\.** [**Shopping for Water: Markets just might save the American West from its water crisis.**](http://www.hamiltonproject.org/files/downloads%5Fand%5Flinks/market%5Fmitigate%5Fwater%5Fshortage%5Fin%5Fwest%5Fpaper%5Fglennon%5Ffinal.pdf "undefined") By Peter Culp, Robert Glennon, and Gary Libecap at the Hamilton Project **3\.** [**With Ebola in the spotlight, Liberia’s nurses take to the streets to care for the sick crowded out of the overwhelmed health care system.**](http://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/liberias-nurses-find-brilliant-ways-to-bring-back-basic-heal "undefined") By Jina Moore at BuzzFeed News **4\.** [**Humanitarians are preparing for a future with autonomous weapons, which are unlikely to understand mercy, proportionality or the difference between combatants and civilians.**](http://www.redcross.int/EN/mag/magazine2014%5F1/4-7.html "undefined") By Malcolm Lucard in Red Cross Red Crescent **5\.** [**Markets in everything: Can letting the rich buy into clinical trials produce cures for rare diseases faster?**](http://mosaicscience.com/story/plutocratic-proposal "undefined") By Alexander Masters in Mosaic Science  [_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/3554674/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-3/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3554674/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-3/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 3","datePublished":"2014-11-03T18:06:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:12.020Z","description":"Tracking gender gaps, markets for water, nursing non-Ebola patients in Liberia, and how the rich could buy us all cures for rare diseases.","url":"https://time.com/3554674/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-3/","keywords":["Innovation","medicine","Drugs","Disease","Data topic","World","America","gender gap","Weapons","Markets","ebola","Liberia","humanitarian","nurses"],"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/3554674/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-3/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 3"}}]}] ```