"One of the central facts about science is that it pays no attention to East and West and North and South and black and Yellow and white. It belongs to everybody who is willing to make the effort to learn it.” -Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) The Scientist as Rebel

Teachers are doing incredible work to keep kids learning while at home. To help get supplies to those most in need, Melinda and I will double your impact, up to $1 million total, when you give to DonorsChoose coronavirus relief effort today and tomorrow. b-gat.es/2y90zlY

Impassioned, evidence-based plea from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to leaders & people everywhere to grab the chance, or the 2nd chance, to save people from #coronavirus, now. We know what it takes, all of us, so let's do it. I felt very moved by World Health Organization (WHO)'s chief just now because the time is truly NOW.

Peter Piot London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine shares his thoughts on #COVID19

This is encouraging news, but we still have a lot of work to do. Extreme physical distancing and testing are the best tools we have right now to slow the spread of novel coronavirus. b-gat.es/2UqwcA4

"Those in authority must retain the public’s trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one…A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete." The Great Influenza, by John M. Barry

Bill Gates: Here’s how to make up for lost time on covid-19 washingtonpost.com/opinions/bill-…

Great stuff here from the always-great Lynne Peeples buff.ly/2X2Jg03

Extended interview: Bill Gates on coronavirus... cbsnews.com/video/extended… via CBSN

In many ways, this should be entirely obvious, but we now have strong evidence that social distancing results in decreased #COVID19 transmission rates. 1/7

Halting funding for the World Health Organization during a world health crisis is as dangerous as it sounds. Their work is slowing the spread of COVID-19 and if that work is stopped no other organization can replace them. The world needs World Health Organization (WHO) now more than ever.

The first modern pandemic gatesnot.es/34VgsJ3?WT.mc_… via Bill Gates

What you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine gatesnot.es/2WaR9yN?WT.mc_… via Bill Gates

It is with deep sadness that I write to share the news that our ‘north star,’ Bill Gates Sr., passed away on Monday, September 14 at home surrounded by family.

A detail in this story that has stuck with me: Washington State recorded 37 of the first 50 U.S. coronavirus deaths but has since done much better than other states. If the whole nation stayed on par with Washington, we'd have 220,000 fewer covid deaths. nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/…

How Bill Gates Saw the Future interviewmagazine.com/culture/how-bi… via @Interview Magazine

Look what I found Rob Guth. Action shot of you at work for The Wall Street Journal in Tokyo in 2000 listening to Ken Kutaragi

"I am a storyteller, for better and for worse." Oliver Sacks

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H. G. Wells

George Saunders on telling a good story theatlantic.com/video/index/41… via The Atlantic