Outsmarting Polio

While a global campaign to vaccinate every child on the globe has reduced incidence of polio by 99 percent, wiping out the disease in the last handful of countries has prov...

Kalki Koechlin Gets Praise From Melinda Gates

Actress Kalki Koechlin is on cloud nine after getting a letter from Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, praising her for bringing "attention...

Bill Gates Predicts Eradication Of Polio In Pakistan By 2017

Bill Gates said Wednesday that "with any luck" polio will be eradicated by 2017 in the last two countries where it remains active, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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To End Global Poverty Put Science At The Heart Of Development

We want to end extreme poverty.If you’re reading this, we’re pretty sure that you do as well. You will probably already know about the enormous progress being m...

The Lenny Interview: Melinda Gates

While I edited this interview, my husband was folding our laundry and my daughter was running around our apartment in one continuous, galloping loop. I mention this because...

College without Walls

Bill Gates went to Arizona to see what the college of the future might look like. The future may not always include the lecture halls, dormitories, football teams and other...

Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis

My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’ onto the development agenda. It’s ...

Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis

My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’
onto the development agenda. It&rs...

Women Transform Societies - Melinda Gates

When Neelam Bhengra’s husband wakes up before she does, he makes the tea. It wasn’t always this way,Neelam told me when i met her last year in Jharkhand. Things...