--- title: Five Best: Better Protein May Be Key to Feeding Billions description: Better protein may be the key to feeding billions, college textbooks are the next Netflix and more. canonical: https://time.com/5052065/better-protein-may-be-key-to-feeding-billions/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-06T17:00:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:17.773Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Better Protein May Be Key to Feeding Billions og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5052065/better-protein-may-be-key-to-feeding-billions/ 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: Better Protein May Be Key to Feeding Billions 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 --- # Better Protein May Be Key to Feeding Billions by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 6, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 6, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Better protein may be the key to feeding billions.**](https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/protein-key-feeding-ten-billion/) By Kevin O’Neil at the _Rockefeller Foundation_ **2\.** [**The next Netflix? College textbooks.**](https://qz.com/1039404/end-of-textbooks/) By Allison Schrager and Amy X. Wang at _Quartz_ **3\.** [**Scientists are working on a robotic arm that feels. That could change lives.**](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/explore-health-robotic-arm-senses-touch/) By Eve Conant in _National Geographic_ **4\.** [**Owning a wearable device leads to big health savings.**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/07/wearable-devices-health-care-savings/) By Yiftah Ben Aharon at _STAT News_ **5\.** [**How increasing paid parental leave would help the economy.**](http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/would-six-weeks-paid-parental-leave-be-good-step-forward) By Julia B. Isaacs at the _Urban Institute_  [_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/5052065/better-protein-may-be-key-to-feeding-billions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5052065/better-protein-may-be-key-to-feeding-billions/"},"headline":"Better Protein May Be Key to Feeding Billions","datePublished":"2017-12-06T17:00:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:17.773Z","description":"These are today's five best","url":"https://time.com/5052065/better-protein-may-be-key-to-feeding-billions/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Food","Education","robots","parental leave"],"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/5052065/better-protein-may-be-key-to-feeding-billions/","name":"Better Protein May Be Key to Feeding Billions"}}]}] ```