--- title: Five Best: Video Gamers Could Make Our Food Supply Safer description: Video gamers could make our food supply safer, one state is getting rid of drug discount coupons to save money and more. canonical: https://time.com/4998571/video-gamers-could-make-our-food-supply-safer/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-26T16:00:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:22.542Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Video Gamers Could Make Our Food Supply Safer og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4998571/video-gamers-could-make-our-food-supply-safer/ 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: Video Gamers Could Make Our Food Supply Safer 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 --- # Video Gamers Could Make Our Food Supply Safer by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 26, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 26, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Could video gamers make our food supply safer?**](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-video-gamers-make-our-food-supply-safer-180965355/) By Emily Matchar in _Smithsonian_ **2\.** [**To slash millions in health care costs, one state is getting rid of drug discount coupons.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-28/an-easy-way-to-cut-drug-costs) By the editors of _Bloomberg View_ **3\.** [**It’s time to address the staggering suicide rate among military women. Here’s where to start.**](http://taskandpurpose.com/time-address-staggering-rate-suicide-among-servicewomen-female-vets/) By Kate Hendricks Thomas and Kyleanne Hunter in _Task and Purpose_ **4\.** [**To stay young, kill zombie cells.**](https://www.nature.com/news/to-stay-young-kill-zombie-cells-1.22872) By Megan Scudellari in _Nature_ **5\.** [**This innovative study proves that bias — not face time with management, mentorship or other factors — hurts women at work.**](https://hbr.org/2017/10/a-study-used-sensors-to-show-that-men-and-women-are-treated-differently-at-work) By Stephen Turban, Laura Freeman and Ben Waber in the _Harvard Business Review_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Video Gamers Could Make Our Food Supply Safer ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4998571/video-gamers-could-make-our-food-supply-safer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4998571/video-gamers-could-make-our-food-supply-safer/"},"headline":"Video Gamers Could Make Our Food Supply Safer","datePublished":"2017-10-26T16:00:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:22.542Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4998571/video-gamers-could-make-our-food-supply-safer/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Health Care","Suicide","Innovation","Food","health","productivity"],"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/4998571/video-gamers-could-make-our-food-supply-safer/","name":"Video Gamers Could Make Our Food Supply Safer"}}]}] ```