The Gates Notes

1. Why I’d Love to Be a College Student Again

2. A Perfume that Smells Like Poop?

3. Lost and Found with “the Most Wondrous Map Ever Produced”

4. Let’s Make TB History

5. Science is the Great Giver

6. Why I’d Rather Cuddle with a Shark than a Kissing Bug

7. Mapping the End of Malaria

8. Accelerating Innovation with Leadership

9. South Africa: Virtually There

10. Computers Are For Girls, Too

11. I Love This Cutting-Edge School Design

12. How Star Wars Helps Explain Civil Rights

13. A Powerful Conversation on Schools, Poverty, and Race

14. A Teacher Who Changed My Life

15. America’s Best Days Are Not Behind Us

16. Giving the Mandela Lecture

17. We Haven’t Turned the Corner on AIDS

18. Snapshots of an Amazing Friendship

19. 25 Years of Learning and Laughter

20. Let’s Preserve This Lifesaver

21. Living With Energy Poverty

22. Why I Would Raise Chickens

23. More Momentum for Clean Energy

24. A Letter From Our Foundation’s CEO

25. How Math Secretly Affects Your Life

26. How Did Humans Get Smart?

27. Can Japan Come Back?

28. The Day the Moon Blew Up

29. 5 Books to Read This Summer

30. This Biology Book Blew Me Away

31. Remembering David MacKay

32. Life As We Know It

33. Opening Minds on Ed Tech

34. America’s Secret Weapon

35. Who Should Get Foreign Aid?

36. Beating the Odds

37. Meeting Students Where They Are

38. My Visit to Metropolis

39. It Is Surprisingly Hard to Store Energy

40. Our 2016 Annual Letter in Six Photos

41. Try This Quiz About Time, Energy, and Superheroes

42. Two Superpowers We Wish We Had

43. Progress on Clean Energy

44. My Desert Island Discs

45. The Best Teacher I Never Had

46. Cocoa Puffs, Bonobos, and Sandra Bullock . . .

47. “I’ll be the first person in my family to go to college.”

48. How the Tough Got Going in Kentucky

49. Why the Future Is Bright for the World’s Poorest Farmers

50. Neil deGrasse Tyson Defends Science in 272 Words