--- title: Five Best Ideas: School Lunch Share Tables Fight Hunger description: School lunch share tables fight hunger and food waste, we can’t yet target terrorists with lasers and more. canonical: https://time.com/4720583/school-lunch-share-tables-fight-hunger-and-food-waste/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-31T16:00:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:57.791Z article:section: Ideas og:title: School Lunch Share Tables Fight Hunger and Food Waste og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4720583/school-lunch-share-tables-fight-hunger-and-food-waste/ 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: School Lunch Share Tables Fight Hunger and Food Waste twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # School Lunch Share Tables Fight Hunger and Food Waste by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 31, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 31, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**School lunch share tables fight hunger and food waste.**](http://civileats.com/2017/03/27/school-lunch-share-tables-fight-food-waste-and-hunger/) By Melissa Terry in _Civil Eats_ **2\.** [**We can’t target terrorists with lasers — yet.**](http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2017/03/why-you-cant-shoot-terrorists-lasers-yet/136615/) By Patrick Tucker in _Defense One_ **3\.** [**Public libraries can be the key to building healthy communities. Here’s how.**](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/03/30/how-public-libraries-help-build-healthy-communities/) By Marcela Cabello and Stuart M. Butler at the _Brookings Institution_ **4\.** [**America’s scientists are getting older — and nobody is replacing them.**](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/28/study-suggests-scientific-work-force-aging-younger-scientists-struggle-find-good) By Colleen Flaherty in _Inside Higher Ed_ **5\.** [**Will artificial intelligence ever replace doctors?**](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/ai-versus-md) By Siddhartha Mukherjee in the _New Yorker_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4720583/school-lunch-share-tables-fight-hunger-and-food-waste/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4720583/school-lunch-share-tables-fight-hunger-and-food-waste/"},"headline":"School Lunch Share Tables Fight Hunger and Food Waste","datePublished":"2017-03-31T16:00:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:57.791Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4720583/school-lunch-share-tables-fight-hunger-and-food-waste/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Food","Terrorism","Libraries","scientists","AI"],"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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4720583/school-lunch-share-tables-fight-hunger-and-food-waste/","name":"School Lunch Share Tables Fight Hunger and Food Waste"}}]}] ```