--- --- # How We Can Treat the Gun Violence Epidemic by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 6, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 6, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Could we treat gun violence as a treatable contagion?**](http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05/health/gupta-stopping-violence/index.html) By Sanjay Gupta in CNN **2\.** [**With satellites and crowdsourcing, conservationists are giving birds a ‘pop-up’ layover on their migration route.**](http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86685) By Kate Ramsayer at the NASA Earth Observatory **3\.** [**Meet a fashion startup that helps at-risk women get a better life.**](http://www.psfk.com/2015/10/startup-kansas-fashion-incubator-at-risk-women-rightfully-sewn.html) By Leo Lutero in PSFK **4\.** [**Time to abolish Columbus Day.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-bigelow/time-to-abolish-columbus-%5Fb%5F8245158.html) By Bill Bigelow in the Huffington Post **5\.** [**Here’s how mushrooms — yes, mushrooms — will make a better battery.**](http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/31442) By Sean Nealon at the University of California Riverside  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ How to Treat the Gun Violence Epidemic ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4062781/gun-violence-epidemic/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4062781/gun-violence-epidemic/"},"headline":"How We Can Treat the Gun Violence Epidemic","datePublished":"2015-10-06T16:01:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:21.470Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4062781/gun-violence-epidemic/","keywords":["Innovation","California","women","Guns","battery"],"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/4062781/gun-violence-epidemic/","name":"How We Can Treat the Gun Violence Epidemic"}}]}] ```