--- --- # Clean Up Empty Lots to Reduce Shootings by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 24, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 24, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**To reduce shootings, clean up empty lots.**](https://psmag.com/why-cleaning-up-abandoned-lots-can-reduce-shootings-6c761347043f#.1oxsjt21q) By Francie Diep in Pacific Standard **2\.** [**Have mammograms been oversold?**](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/even-more-evidence-that-mammograms-have-been-oversold/) By Christie Aschwanden in FiveThirtyEight **3\.** [**Let’s make inheritance an incentive.**](https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/how-to-make-inheritance-an-incentive) By Richard Davies in 1843 Magazine **4\.** [**Think telling people the calorie counts for fast food will make them eat healthier? Think again.**](http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/october/fast-food-calorie-labeling-unlikely-to-encourage-healthy-eating-.html) By the New York University **5\.** [**The Soviet Union never really went away.**](http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21708879-when-soviet-union-collapsed-25-years-ago-russia-looked-set-become-free-market) By Arkady Ostrovsky in the Economist  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Clean Up Empty Lots to Reduce Shootings ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4542441/clean-up-empty-lots-to-reduce-shootings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4542441/clean-up-empty-lots-to-reduce-shootings/"},"headline":"Clean Up Empty Lots to Reduce Shootings","datePublished":"2016-10-24T16:00:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:24.019Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4542441/clean-up-empty-lots-to-reduce-shootings/","keywords":["Innovation","Nutrition","Breast Cancer","Gun Control","Soviet Union","Inheritance"],"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/4542441/clean-up-empty-lots-to-reduce-shootings/","name":"Clean Up Empty Lots to Reduce Shootings"}}]}] ```