--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 29 description: Phones for farmers, the fraying safety net for seniors, sending ISIS recruits to halfway houses, food studies in the Bronx, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3687633/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-29/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-29T17:31:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:58.352Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Phones for farmers, the fraying safety net for seniors, sending ISIS recruits to halfway houses, food studies in the Bronx, and more og:url: https://time.com/3687633/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-29/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: Phones for farmers, the fraying safety net for seniors, sending ISIS recruits to halfway houses, food studies in the Bronx, and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 29 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 29, 2015 5:31 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 29, 2015 5:31 PM CUT **1\.** [**The homeownership safety net may be unraveling for the next generation of seniors.**](http://blog.metrotrends.org/2015/01/homeownership-safety-net-unraveling-seniors/ "undefined") By Taz George and Ellen Seidman in MetroTrends **2\.** [**As we try to understand what draws Americans to ISIS, one judge hopes we can slow radicalization by putting recruits in halfway houses instead of jail.**](http://www.npr.org/2015/01/29/382326933/court-order-may-signal-new-approach-to-preventing-radicalization "undefined") By Dina Temple-Raston at National Public Radio **3\.** [**Phones for farmers: With a mobile phone, a developing world farmer can learn best practices, get weather data, follow crop prices and even access financial services.**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFUIRU22FI "undefined") By Gates Notes **4\.** [**A new food studies program at a Bronx community college will look at healthy eating and obesity in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/nyregion/hostos-college-in-bronx-to-offer-a-food-studies-program.html "undefined") By Winnie Hu in the New York Times **5\.** [**A new initiative is pushing to get more women into the debate on global issues. Meet Foreign Policy Interrupted.**](http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2014/01/16/meet-foreign-policy-interrupted/ "undefined") By Micah Zenko at the Council on Foreign Relations  [_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/3687633/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-29/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3687633/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-29/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 29","datePublished":"2015-01-29T17:31:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:58.352Z","description":"Phones for farmers, the fraying safety net for seniors, sending ISIS recruits to halfway houses, food studies in the Bronx, and more.","url":"https://time.com/3687633/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-29/","keywords":["Innovation","women","Economics","Africa","Foreign Policy","Bill Gates","ISIS","Obesity","bronx","Minnesota","community college","farms","homeownership","mobile phones","seniors","Healthy Eating"],"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/3687633/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-29/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 29"}}]}] ```