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Education

March 26, 2012

Shame is Not the Solution

March 13, 2012

Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What it Means for the Classroom

March 12, 2012

Every Student Deserves to Have Great Teachers

March 12, 2012

Khan Academy on 60 Minutes

March 12, 2012

Technology's Promise to Education: Connecting Through Social Networks

March 12, 2012

Technology's Promise to Education: Personalizing Learning

March 12, 2012

Technology's Promise to Education: Reimagining Textbooks

March 12, 2012

Technology's Promise to Education: Scaling Our Best Teachers

March 09, 2012

College Completion Rates: Chronicle of Higher Education Data

March 09, 2012

Fulfilling Technology's Promise to Education

March 08, 2012

Education 2.0

March 06, 2012

America's Future: Education

March 05, 2012

2012 Annual Letter: U.S. Education

January 22, 2012

Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy (Book Review)

December 15, 2011

Unlocking the Gates: How and Why Leading Universities Are Opening Up Access to Their Courses

September 26, 2011

The U.S. Economy and Public Education

September 15, 2011

A Yardstick of Service

September 09, 2011

Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools (Book Review)

August 30, 2011

Who's Teaching Your Children?: Why the Teacher Crisis is Worse Than You Think and What Can Be Done About It

July 29, 2011

National Urban League hosts Bill for a Discussion on Education

July 25, 2011

Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present

May 15, 2011

Why MIT Matters

April 11, 2011

David Christian's TED2011 Talk

March 10, 2011

Bill Talks with College Students

March 09, 2011

Sal Khan's Talk from TED2011

March 04, 2011

Bill's TED2011 Talk

March 01, 2011

A Pop-Up Guide to Big History

March 01, 2011

A Big Commitment to Big History

March 01, 2011

Bill's Take on Technology & Teaching

March 01, 2011

State Budgets & Education Funding

March 01, 2011

Setting High Standards for Students

March 01, 2011

Wake Up: The Big History of Coffee

March 01, 2011

Learning to Teach Big History

March 01, 2011

How Do States Spend?

March 01, 2011

Pay Now or Pay Later

March 01, 2011

The Lifecycle of Massive Stars

March 01, 2011

A Smooth Move to More Engaged Students

March 01, 2011

A Student View: Math for Daydreamers Too

March 01, 2011

New Tools Help Teachers Guide Learning

March 01, 2011

The Wicked Problem of School Funding

March 01, 2011

Fresh Insights into Students’ Progress

March 01, 2011

Sal Khan on the Future of Learning

March 01, 2011

Cupcake Economics

March 01, 2011

Stretching the School Dollar (Book Review)

March 01, 2011

Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? (Book Review)

March 01, 2011

What Do School Programs Really Cost?

February 19, 2011

Annual Letter: Excellence in Teaching

December 14, 2010

Real-World Solutions from World's Youth

October 11, 2010

Improving College Completion in the U.S.

October 07, 2010

Sal's Amazing Global Academy

September 20, 2010

A Powerful Film About Education in America

August 16, 2010

Liberating Learning (Book Review)

August 06, 2010

Raising the Grade on Teacher, Student Performance

April 26, 2010

Imagine Cup: the Olympics of Great Ideas

April 21, 2010

Bill Discusses Big Challenges with Students

April 13, 2010

Going Back to College(s)

March 12, 2010

Heading to Sundance

February 05, 2010

More Recommended Teaching Company Lectures

January 23, 2010

Strengths and Weaknesses in U.S. Education

January 23, 2010

Great Lectures from The Teaching Company

January 21, 2010

Work Hard. Be Nice. (Book Review)

Energy

April 19, 2012

An Energy Briefing with Daniel Yergin: Understanding Energy Solutions

April 19, 2012

An Energy Briefing with Daniel Yergin: Opportunities for Developing Countries

April 19, 2012

EcoMotors: Reinventing the Internal Combustion Engine

April 17, 2012

An Energy Briefing with Daniel Yergin: Nuclear Energy

April 16, 2012

An Energy Briefing with Daniel Yergin: Government Spending on Energy R&D

April 16, 2012

MIT Professor Donald Sadoway’s Formula for Energy Innovation: Increase Federal Research Funding

April 13, 2012

An Energy Briefing with Daniel Yergin: Market Dynamics & Natural Gas

March 23, 2012

On the Road to Energy Solutions

February 28, 2012

ARPA-E: A Good Beginning for U.S. Energy Innovation

December 15, 2011

World on the Edge - How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

November 29, 2011

Global Warming: The Complete Briefing

November 17, 2011

The Energy Research Imperative

November 16, 2011

Innovating to Zero Emissions

November 16, 2011

Taking Energy Storage to a Higher Level

October 06, 2011

We Need a Battery Miracle

October 04, 2011

Nuclear Energy After Fukushima

September 13, 2011

Catalyzing American Ingenuity

September 07, 2011

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century

August 30, 2011

The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World

July 27, 2011

The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics and Change

July 27, 2011

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

July 27, 2011

Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

July 27, 2011

Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization

July 19, 2011

Q&A: Bill Gates on the World Energy Crisis

May 02, 2011

Bill at WIRED Conference

October 13, 2010

Energy Myths and Realities (Book Review)

October 06, 2010

Energy Transitions (Book Review)

June 15, 2010

Calling for Energy Technology Innovation

April 23, 2010

We Must Invest in Energy Innovation

April 08, 2010

Recommended Reading on Climate Change

March 08, 2010

Talking About Energy Miracles at TED

February 18, 2010

Talking About Energy at TED

February 09, 2010

Important Books About Energy by Vaclav Smil

January 24, 2010

Why We Need Innovation, Not Just Insulation

January 23, 2010

What About Wind?

January 20, 2010

Podcast Series Energy and Climate Change

January 15, 2010

Sustainable Energy (Book Review)

January 14, 2010

The Free Market and Energy Innovation

December 10, 2009

Why Not Focus on Global Warming?

Development

May 09, 2012

Photo Gallery: Agriculture in Ethiopia

May 09, 2012

Ethiopia’s Agricultural Revolution

May 08, 2012

Ethiopia: Exciting Innovations in Agriculture and Health

May 02, 2012

Photo Gallery: Ethiopia & Sorghum

May 01, 2012

Africa Report: Progress in Ethiopia and Zambia

April 30, 2012

Answers from Bill about Africa

April 27, 2012

A Simple Advance in Crop Storage Aids Poor Farmers in Africa

April 06, 2012

Photos from My Trip to Ethiopia and Zambia

April 04, 2012

Q&A with Students at Stanford University

April 02, 2012

Photos from My Recent Trip to Ethiopia and Zambia

March 30, 2012

A Report Card on Helping the World’s Poor

March 27, 2012

On My Way to Africa

March 22, 2012

Water, Water - Hardly Everywhere

February 27, 2012

A Vision for Productivity and Prosperity

February 23, 2012

Working Together for Small Farmers

February 22, 2012

Spain Has Saved Millions of Lives

February 10, 2012

Why Our Foundation Invests in India

January 30, 2012

Building Better Bananas

January 30, 2012

Cassava: Can Science Save a Diet Staple?

January 24, 2012

The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger (Book Review)

January 18, 2012

Growing Enough Food to Feed the World

November 30, 2011

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

November 29, 2011

The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa

November 04, 2011

Bill Gates Statement in Response to G20 Leaders Summit Final Communiqué

November 03, 2011

Foreign Aid Advances Millennium Development Goals

November 03, 2011

Development with Impact: Innovation and Partnerships

November 03, 2011

G20 Report: Infographics Tell the Story

November 03, 2011

Innovation with Impact: Financing 21st Century Development

November 02, 2011

What Does the Data Say?

November 02, 2011

A Plan to Assist the World’s Poor

November 01, 2011

What is the G20? (And why am I going?)

November 01, 2011

Why We Must Stay Committed to Alleviating Poverty

October 31, 2011

The People of Poor Economics

October 31, 2011

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Book Review)

October 31, 2011

The World of Poor Economics

October 28, 2011

Getting Better: Why Global Development is Succeeding (Book Review)

October 26, 2011

The Plundered Planet

September 22, 2011

Innovation, Development, and the Economic Crisis

July 25, 2011

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

July 25, 2011

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

July 25, 2011

Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years

July 25, 2011

Enriching the Earth: Fritz Habery, Carol Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production

July 25, 2011

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

May 20, 2011

Good News about Global Development & Aid

April 11, 2011

Staying Committed to Development

February 18, 2011

Annual Letter: Agriculture’s Promise

January 31, 2011

January 25, 2011

New Health Partnership in Middle East

January 06, 2011

Mobile Phones + Savings: A Powerful Pair

November 30, 2010

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Book Review)

October 21, 2010

Why America is Not a New Rome (Book Review)

August 09, 2010

Better Farms – Improved Lives

March 08, 2010

Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food (Book Review)

March 04, 2010

Urgent Need for Help in Haiti

February 10, 2010

The Mood at Davos

January 20, 2010

We Need Productivity and Sustainability

January 18, 2010

Are Governments Providing Enough Foreign Aid?

January 14, 2010

Should Companies Help the Poor?

January 06, 2010

Teaming with Bill Clinton on Capitol Hill

Health

May 14, 2012

Zambia: On the Front Lines Waging War Against HIV and Malaria

May 10, 2012

Ethiopia’s New Health System

April 25, 2012

World Malaria Day: Reasons to Celebrate

February 16, 2012

Using Disease to Fight Disease

February 08, 2012

A Hero in the Battle Against Polio

January 09, 2012

India Marks a Milestone for Child Health

December 16, 2011

Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results

December 16, 2011

The Emperor of all Maladies - A Biography of Cancer

December 16, 2011

The Changing Body - Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700

December 15, 2011

Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System

December 15, 2011

Global Health: An Introductory Textbook

November 30, 2011

Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector: Is There a Funding Crisis?

October 21, 2011

A Call to Action on World Polio Day

October 19, 2011

Visiting Tanzania: A Battleground in the Fight Against Malaria

October 19, 2011

Speech Urges Sustained Effort to Eradicate Malaria

October 19, 2011

Charting a Course to End Malaria

October 06, 2011

Introducing the Gates Vaccine Innovation Award

September 14, 2011

The Tobacco Atlas

September 07, 2011

Health Care Will Not Reform Itself: A User's Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health Care

September 07, 2011

Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History

September 07, 2011

Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR

August 30, 2011

Priorities in Health

August 30, 2011

The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria

July 28, 2011

More than a Goal: End Polio

July 27, 2011

Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver

July 27, 2011

Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice (2nd edition)

July 27, 2011

Smallpox the Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer

July 27, 2011

Mountains Beyond Mountains

July 27, 2011

House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox

July 27, 2011

Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

July 27, 2011

Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries

June 23, 2011

The History of Polio in the U.S.

June 22, 2011

Polio: An American Story (Book Review)

June 13, 2011

GAVI Raises $4.3 Billion at First Pledging Conference

May 26, 2011

Rotarians Urged to Create Noise on Polio

May 25, 2011

Bruce Aylward's TED2011 Talk

May 17, 2011

A Commitment to Global Health

March 24, 2011

Tackling TB Through Innovation

March 01, 2011

Bill: Progress & Promise in Nigeria

March 01, 2011

Vibrant, Hardworking: Amina's Nigeria

March 01, 2011

Bill: The End Game against Polio

March 01, 2011

Bill’s Annual Letter: End Polio Now

March 01, 2011

Nigeria’s Progress against Polio

March 01, 2011

Helping Save Nigeria’s Newborns

March 01, 2011

Polio Primer: History, Progress and Hope

March 01, 2011

Going the Last Mile in India

February 17, 2011

Annual Letter: A Health Emergency

February 16, 2011

Bill's Annual Letter: Vaccine Miracles

February 16, 2011

Jim Grant - UNICEF Visionary (Book Review)

January 29, 2011

Vaccines Save Lives

November 09, 2010

Cell Phone Science

November 05, 2010

Sharing Ideas with Future Scientists

October 28, 2010

Great Ideas from Unexpected Places

October 26, 2010

Discovery Science – Taking the Challenge

October 25, 2010

It’s Time to Vanquish Polio

October 15, 2010

Real Lives. Real Progress.

August 24, 2010

A Disturbing Link: Disease and Intelligence

July 23, 2010

Nigeria Advances the Fight against Polio

July 21, 2010

Exciting News for HIV Prevention

July 19, 2010

A Roadmap for HIV Prevention

June 28, 2010

Seeing Self-Help in Action in India

June 25, 2010

Eliminating Killer Diseases with New Medicines

May 25, 2010

For Mothers and Babies, a Brighter Future

March 31, 2010

A Grand Challenge: Unorthodox Research Ideas

March 18, 2010

Simple Advances, Amazing Benefits in Africa

February 09, 2010

Why Vaccines Matter

January 22, 2010

A Maniacal Focus on Global Health

January 21, 2010

Delivering Health Care in India

January 18, 2010

A Better Response to the Next Pandemic

January 18, 2010

Great Lectures from Hans Rosling

January 18, 2010

The Living Proof Project

January 14, 2010

Is There Progress Towards an AIDS Vaccine?

January 14, 2010

Why Health Care Matters for the Poorest

Personal

May 07, 2012

Woodstock for Capitalists: Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Unlike Any Other

April 18, 2012

Time 100: Salman Khan

March 06, 2012

America's Future: Competitiveness

March 06, 2012

America's Future: Innovation

March 06, 2012

America's Future: Politics

March 06, 2012

For the Love of Physics (Book Review)

March 02, 2012

America's Future: A Conversation with Bill Gates & Thomas Friedman

March 02, 2012

That Used to Be Us: Recipe for Renewal

February 29, 2012

Bill’s Conversation with Thomas Friedman: A Preview

February 27, 2012

That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back (Book Review)

February 21, 2012

Answers to More of Your Questions

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: Aid Delivery & Effectiveness

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: Population Growth

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: Progress Against Polio

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: GMOs

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: Global Fund

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: Why Focus on Global Aid?

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: How Can I Help

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: How Can Countries Help

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: Hans Rosling's Work

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: Global Development Scorecard

February 18, 2012

A Conversation with Bill Gates: Response to Annual Letter

February 14, 2012

Big Ideas, Big Lessons: Bill Gross' Idealab

February 14, 2012

Bill Gross Talks About Idealab

February 13, 2012

More Q&A with Bill

February 10, 2012

Australia Adventures

February 07, 2012

Bill’s Annual Letter: Continuing the Conversation

February 03, 2012

Thanks for a Great Q&A

January 31, 2012

Join the Conversation with Bill

January 27, 2012

Young People Will Change the World

January 26, 2012

Bill's Annual Letter: Good News and a Challenge

January 24, 2012

My 2012 Annual Letter

January 24, 2012

2012 Annual Letter from Bill Gates

January 19, 2012

Hearing from Students on Pressing World Issues

January 11, 2012

Do You Have a World-Changing Idea?

December 16, 2011

The Hair of the Dog - and other Scientific Surprises

December 16, 2011

Post-Capitalist Society

December 16, 2011

50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

December 15, 2011

The Computer and the Brain

December 15, 2011

Giant Molecules: From Nylon to Nanotubes

November 30, 2011

On Intelligence

November 29, 2011

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

November 29, 2011

Giving it all Away: The Doris Buffett Story

November 29, 2011

Frank Stewart's Bridge Club

November 29, 2011

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

November 29, 2011

What Does China Think?

October 28, 2011

The Power of the Natural User Interface

October 28, 2011

Bill Talks About the Future

October 27, 2011

Early Days as a Computer Programmer

October 26, 2011

Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines (Book Review)

October 25, 2011

An Amazing Amazon Adventure

October 21, 2011

Can Science Improve Cooking?

October 21, 2011

Cuisine as You've Never Seen Before

October 05, 2011

Remembering Steve Jobs

September 29, 2011

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Book Review)

September 19, 2011

The New Science of Strong Materials (Book Review)

September 14, 2011

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time

September 14, 2011

A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis

September 14, 2011

Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics

September 14, 2011

Outliers: The Story of Success

September 14, 2011

Weather for Dummies

September 14, 2011

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

September 14, 2011

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

September 07, 2011

Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World

September 07, 2011

13 Things that Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

September 07, 2011

Molecules at an Exhibition: Portraits of Intriguing Materials in Everyday Life

September 07, 2011

A Guide to the Elements

September 07, 2011

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

August 31, 2011

Awed by the Science of Great Structures

August 30, 2011

Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization

August 30, 2011

The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World

August 30, 2011

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

August 30, 2011

Wheels, Clocks and Rockets: A History of Technology

August 12, 2011

The Post-American World

August 11, 2011

A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life

August 11, 2011

The Most Gratifying Job on Earth

August 01, 2011

Giving Pledge Progress

July 29, 2011

Can USA Inc. Avoid Bankruptcy?

July 28, 2011

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

July 28, 2011

The Catcher in the Rye

July 28, 2011

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System -- and Themselves

July 28, 2011

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

July 28, 2011

The Feynman Lectures On Physics, The Definitive Edition Volume 3

July 28, 2011

The Feynman Lectures On Physics, The Definitive Edition Volume 2

July 28, 2011

Introducing the Gates Notes Bookshelf

July 28, 2011

The Feynman Lectures On Physics, Vol. 1: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, And Heat

July 28, 2011

Showing Up for Life

July 28, 2011

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

July 27, 2011

Physics for Dummies

July 27, 2011

Open: An Autobiography

July 27, 2011

Give Smart: Philanthropy that Gets Results

July 27, 2011

Einstein: His Life and Universe

July 27, 2011

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

July 27, 2011

Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact

July 27, 2011

Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

July 27, 2011

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

July 27, 2011

A Separate Peace

June 21, 2011

Welcome to the new Gates Notes

March 01, 2011

Introducing Bill's TED 2011 Line Up

January 31, 2011

2011 Annual Letter

January 12, 2011

In China, Speeding Toward the Future

January 11, 2011

Talking Polio, Education at TED

October 09, 2010

Knowledge is Power in the South Bronx

August 06, 2010

What Makes for a Good Bridge Partner?

July 12, 2010

Science & Leadership in Philly

June 18, 2010

Life is What You Make It (Book Review)

May 21, 2010

Inventing the Myhrvold Way

May 05, 2010

Questions for Bill from Bahia

April 29, 2010

Light Verse from Rory

April 01, 2010

Remembering Ed Roberts

March 24, 2010

A Global Community at the Bottom of the World

March 09, 2010

The Failure to Measure Innovation

March 09, 2010

PC Pioneer Chuck Thacker Wins Turing Award

March 08, 2010

Where Can I Get Unbiased News?

February 22, 2010

In Fed We Trust (Book Review)

February 01, 2010

Annual Letter

February 01, 2010

SuperFreakonomics (Book Review)

January 21, 2010

A Class in Bangalore

January 21, 2010

Meet Secundaria Tecnica #12

January 18, 2010

Warren and Bill Discuss the Economic Crisis

January 14, 2010

On the Importance of Giving

January 14, 2010

Thoughts on Capitalism and Philanthropy

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