CLAM GEMS | Sharing Tales From Around the World
Why He Loves Distorted Portraits, Zombies, and Supernatural Shapes
<div><div><img src="https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/wp-content/uploads/Cover.jpeg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Raphaël Isvy, in his early thirties, is representative of the social-media-savvy next-generation art collectors. Owning around 150 artworks, the Paris-based art collector actively shares his latest ar...</div></div></div>
Meet the teacher helping Deaf students navigate the world
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/b5cae1aa-e078-4840-b058-420abb48fceb/20230725-BacktoSchool-social_share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Washington State Teacher of the Year Dana Miles uses real world scenarios to teach Deaf students how to advocate for themselves.</div></div></div>
Berlin: a collector import city
<div><div><img src="https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/wp-content/uploads/feature-14.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>(...) but the most important thing for me was to make the collection accessible for as many international people as possible – Berlin seemed to be the right place to fulfill those efforts.
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My trip to India in pictures
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/f6fb246c-c949-4551-81be-472224f2e3bc/india-post_2023_module_1200x580_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates shares highlights from his recent trip to India where he saw innovative solutions for the world’s health, climate, and development challenges.</div></div></div>
The risks of AI are real but manageable
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/97d9c065-e120-457a-9e32-b4ccef2927ab/20230629-AI_Concerns-wide-feature_1200x580.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates explains the risks associated with AI and argues that they are manageable. Innovations often create new risks that need to be controlled.</div></div></div>
Great books, songs, and shows for the summer
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/d67395c9-1fa8-42be-b063-81b950eead36/summer-list_2023_summary_social-share_1200x630_02.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Each year, Bill Gates publishes his summer book recommendations. This year he added a Netflix series and a few dozen songs.</div></div></div>
A fireside chat on climate and global development
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/94f0b4a6-2cee-42f3-99e1-d94341709fe4/20231016-ChatamHouse-TGN_Assets-001-social_share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates shares his conversation with researcher and data scientist Hannah Ritchie on global health and development, climate change, and optimism.</div></div></div>
The world's newest weapon against malaria? Mosquitoes
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/2d836797-ae55-4d39-9eb0-edd725140cd5/mw_2023_oxitech_social-share_1200x630_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>A highly invasive, urban mosquito is driving up malaria cases in Africa. But a new technology that uses mosquitoes as allies may offer a powerful solution.</div></div></div>
The start-ups making robots a reality
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/e6de1094-e9f4-41bf-81a5-dfccf178f3d5/20240111-Robotics-TGN_Assets-002-social_share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates explains the many use cases for robots in everyday life and profiles five start-ups and labs at the forefront of robotics innovation.</div></div></div>
My conversation with Sam Altman
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/ea33ef06-ce1b-40e9-a4bc-f52a6fd4657a/UnconfuseMe_2023_Ep6_Social-Share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>In the sixth episode of my podcast, I sat down with Sam Altman to talk about where AI is headed next and what humanity will do once it gets there.</div></div></div>
Being a Collector Means Owning an Artwork Until It Gets Moldy
<div><div><img src="https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/wp-content/uploads/3W6A0109-copy.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Based in Guangzhou, Coobe and Sophia have built an artsy and eclectic home space with their contemporary art collection that include various mediums from sculpture to painting, from video to installat...</div></div></div>
Why Questlove and I believe plant-based meat is the future
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/068268cf-f33e-4bac-a4de-c21811610e4b/unconfuse-me_2023_questlove_social-share_1200x630_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>In the third episode of my podcast, I sat down with Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson to talk about the future of food, our Wordle scores, and more.</div></div></div>
A fireside chat on education, technology, and almost everything in between
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/ad1f554e-c63b-48b5-a9f3-9ddada0a01eb/asu-gsv_2023_module_1200x580_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates explains why math education is so important, the state of edtech today, and how AI can improve outcomes in equitable ways.</div></div></div>
We’re finally learning why countries excel at saving lives
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/468c9d41-75de-46f5-bcc0-4bc548813c8c/exemplars_2020_wide-feature_1200x580_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates writes about Exemplars in Global Health, a new program that is spreading the word about the most successful approaches to health.</div></div></div>
This scientist uses 80-year-old insects to help fight malaria
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/2336c1ee-cec1-4b5f-b0b4-1130066f2c4b/20230804-HITF-MaraLawniczak-social_share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>I wrote a Heroes in the Field post about Dr. Mara Lawniczak, an evolutionary geneticist in the UK who is fighting malaria by studying the genes of mosquitoes.</div></div></div>
Makoy Samuel Yibi won’t stop until the world eradicates its next disease
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/aae09f0c-94a6-4d20-9e36-849f77d666ac/20240124-HITF-Yibi-TGN_Assets-001-social_share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Guinea worm once infected 3.5 million people every year. Thanks to heroes like Makoy, that number dropped to 13 last year.</div></div></div>
AI is about to completely change how you use computers
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/05ba24d4-c9e6-43d8-9c18-beff53bb0a73/20231023-AI_Agents-TGN_Assets-001-social_share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>In 5 years, agents will be able to give health care advice, tutor students, do your shopping, help workers be far more productive, and much more</div></div></div>
Hannah Ritchie will make you optimistic about climate change
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/20dfd3a3-a937-4e17-a627-fb975ce3a629/UnconfuseMe_2024_Ep7_Social-Share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>In the latest episode of my podcast, I talked to author and researcher Hannah Ritchie about why there are more reasons for hope than one might think.</div></div></div>
My summer Spotify playlist
<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/32fd55f6-d567-4eb2-80e8-a6082513320c/summer-list_2023_summer-mix_social-share_1200x630_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates shares his soundtrack to the summer that includes music from Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, the Beatles, Vampire Weekend, Adele, U2, and more.</div></div></div>
We Passed the Stage of Enjoying “Domestically”
<div><div><img src="https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/wp-content/uploads/221210_AAA8568_HR-copy1.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Collectors Matthias Arndt and Tiffany Wood aim to collect works that create disturbance and allow for a reassessment of lines of questioning and understanding. With the Arndt Foundation (formerly Berl...</div></div></div>