--- title: Five Best: Improve Teacher Pay description: Improve teacher pay to inspire a new generation, how preserved birds in America’s museums are helping us understand air pollution and more. canonical: https://time.com/4977546/this-smart-label-will-tell-you-when-your-food-is-spoiled-2/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-11T16:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:51:54.256Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Improve Teacher Pay og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4977546/this-smart-label-will-tell-you-when-your-food-is-spoiled-2/ 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: Improve Teacher Pay 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 --- # This Smart Label Will Tell You When Your Food is Spoiled (11 Oct 2017) by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 11, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 11, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Want to inspire a new generation of educators? Improve teacher pay.**](https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/10/05/want-more-young-people-to-aspire-to-become-teachers-try-paying-teachers-more/) By Matt Barnum in _Chalkbeat_ **2\.** [**How preserved birds in America’s museums are helping us understand air pollution.**](http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41557157) By Matt McGrath at the _BBC_ **3\.** [**Medicaid expansion has lowered the crime rate.**](http://www.uky.edu/publichealth/about/news/2017-09-26/study-medicaid-expansion-leads-drop-crime-rates) By the _University of Kentucky College of Public Health_ **4\.** [**Sensible gun control has happened before. Here’s how it could happen again.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/politics/brady-bill-semi-automatic-ban-gun-control/index.html) By Ronald Brownstein at _CNN_ **5\.** [**How technology and smart storage is helping New England farmers deliver crops all winter.**](http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/new-england-is-cracking-the-code-to-farming-all-year-long/81249) By Nick Fouriezos in _Ozy_  [_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/4977546/this-smart-label-will-tell-you-when-your-food-is-spoiled-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4977546/this-smart-label-will-tell-you-when-your-food-is-spoiled-2/"},"headline":"This Smart Label Will Tell You When Your Food is Spoiled (11 Oct 2017)","datePublished":"2017-10-11T16:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:51:54.256Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4977546/this-smart-label-will-tell-you-when-your-food-is-spoiled-2/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","Gun Control","Farming","Air Pollution","Medicaid"],"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/4977546/this-smart-label-will-tell-you-when-your-food-is-spoiled-2/","name":"This Smart Label Will Tell You When Your Food is Spoiled (11 Oct 2017)"}}]}] ```