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Bill Gates

the thinker

Value tech? Then you’ll have a tech genius. Art? An art genius.

Technology

Vienna valued music; it got Mozart. We value technology; we got Mark Zuckerberg. Author Eric Weiner explains how place and culture shape the rise of geniuses.

Solar panel in Mongolia

The most important work at COP21 may have happened out of the spotlight

Environment
The World

Billionaires pledge to give up half their money to charity

Business, Economics and Jobs
The World

One Teacher and 70,000 Students

Arts, Culture & Media

Bill Gates, Warren Buffet prod Chinese millionaires for charity

Tributes to Apple co-founder, innovator Steve Jobs

Environment

Heads of state, business and technology leaders, and throngs of consumers, who were touched by his products, are paying tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56.

Alternative energy infrastructure

Business, Economics and Jobs

Shai Agassi, founder of Better Place, has a bold plan involving the creation of the infrastructure necessary to support electric vehicles.

The World

Global Sex Workers Meet to Fight HIV

Business, Economics and Jobs

Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with the BBC’s Rahul Tandon in Calcutta about a meeting of sex workers there.

G20 Summit and the ‘Robin Hood Tax’

The G20 summit is under way in Cannes. While the European sovereign debt crisis is at the top of the agenda, one of the more noteworthy topics being discussed is a so-called “Robin Hood Tax,” a financial transaction tax on stocks, bonds and derivatives trades. Microsoft founder and  philanthropist  Bill Gates  is at the summit to address world […]

The World

Bill Gates has an idea on how to plug the spill. Do you?

Environment

Everyone seems to have an idea about how to stop the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico these days. Takeaway listeners join the fray with some of their proposals, including cameos by Bill Gates and Samantha Bee.