--- --- # How Sweet Potatoes Could Help Fight Blindness by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 13, 2015 6:16 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 13, 2015 6:16 PM UTC **1\.** [**Scientists are building a better sweet potato to fight blindness.**](https://www.agronomy.org/science-news/fortified-against-blindness) By Adityarup Chakravorty at the American Society of Agronomy **2\.** [**Mistreatment of female military vets isn’t just a women’s issue.**](http://taskandpurpose.com/mistreatment-female-veterans-not-just-womens-issue/) By Jennifer Dolsen in Task and Purpose **3\.** [**Can activists take on climate change with the marriage equality playbook?**](http://qz.com/477496/environmentalists-tackling-climate-change-should-take-a-page-from-the-gay-marriage-playbook/) By Ramez Naam in Quartz **4\.** [**In medicine, is there such a thing as too much information?**](http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1508418) By Lisa Rosenbaum in the New England Journal of Medicine **5\.** [**We need a small business borrower’s bill of rights.**](http://aspen.us/journal/editions/julyaugust-2015/why-we-need-small-business-borrower%E2%80%99s-bill-rights) By Joyce Klein and Gwendy Donaker Brown in the Aspen Journal of Ideas  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Science: How Sweet Potatoes Could Help Fight Blindness ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3995931/sweet-potato-blindness/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3995931/sweet-potato-blindness/"},"headline":"How Sweet Potatoes Could Help Fight Blindness","datePublished":"2015-08-13T18:16:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:03.673Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3995931/sweet-potato-blindness/","keywords":["Innovation","climate change","Small Business","blindness"],"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/3995931/sweet-potato-blindness/","name":"How Sweet Potatoes Could Help Fight Blindness"}}]}] ```