--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 13 description: What more must Muslim-Americans do to be 'part and parcel' of America? Also supporting entrepreneur-inventors in developing nations and more. canonical: https://time.com/3709065/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-13/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-13T17:01:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:39.224Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: What more must Muslim-Americans do to be 'part and parcel' of America? Also supporting entrepreneur-inventors in developing nations and more og:url: https://time.com/3709065/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-13/ 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: What more must Muslim-Americans do to be 'part and parcel' of America? Also supporting entrepreneur-inventors in developing nations and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 13 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 13, 2015 5:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 13, 2015 5:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**After the shootings in Chapel Hill, a Muslim-American school teacher asks what they must do to be ‘part and parcel’ of America.**](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-chapel-hill-muslims-murder-perspec-0213-jm-20150212-story.html "undefined") By Deanna Othman in the Chicago Tribune **2\.** [**Imagine insulin that can read a diabetic’s blood sugar level from inside the body and start working on-demand.**](http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/modified-insulin-better-diabetes-control-0209 "undefined") By Anne Trafton in MIT News **3\.** [**City governments are using Yelp to warn the public about restaurant health code violations.**](https://hbr.org/2015/02/city-governments-are-using-yelp-to-tell-you-where-not-to-eat "undefined") By Michael Luca and Luther Lowe in Harvard Business Review **4\.** [**The FDA is cutting the red tape so doctors can get experimental drugs to patients more quickly.**](http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2015/02/a-big-step-to-help-the-patients-most-in-need/ "undefined") By Peter Lurie in FDA Voice **5\.** [**How can we support entrepreneurial inventors in developing countries? Create innovation ecosystems.**](http://aspen.us/journal/editions/januaryfebruary-2015/creating-ecosystem-innovation-how-support-entrepreneurial "undefined") By Alexander Pan in the Aspen Journal of Ideas  [_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/3709065/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-13/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3709065/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-13/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 13","datePublished":"2015-02-13T17:01:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:39.224Z","description":"What more must Muslim-Americans do to be 'part and parcel' of America? Also supporting entrepreneur-inventors in developing nations and more.","url":"https://time.com/3709065/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-13/","keywords":["Innovation","restaurants","Entrepreneurs","FDA","Muslims","MIT","diabetes","Islam","Yelp","insulin"],"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/3709065/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-13/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 13"}}]}] ```