CLAM GEMS | Sharing Tales From Around the World

Phillips’ Hong Kong Fall Sales Present Exceptional Works Across 20th Century & Contemporary Art

<div><div><img src="https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/wp-content/uploads/image003-1.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Evening Sale on 6 October to be Led by Yoshitomo Nara, Nicolas Party, Liu Ye, Zao Wou-Ki and Cai Guo-Qiang Day Sale on 7 October to Feature Strong Examples by In-Demand and Emerging Artists Multipl...</div></div></div>

We’re not reaching the Global Goals. What now?

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/0c7de3ff-53f5-47b7-b323-16151bf9989f/lomborg_2023_social-share_1200x630_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg argue that the world isn’t on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (a.k.a. Global Goals) and they propose two solutions.</div></div></div>

3 Arguments Why Marijuana Should Stay Illegal Reviewed

<div><div><img src="https://ihavenotv.com/img/12818.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>We take a fair look at some of the best counter arguments for legalization and see how they hold up in review.</div></div></div>

A Gen-Z Collector’s Poetic Idea of Safeguarding and Nurturing Art

<div><div><img src="https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/wp-content/uploads/E86D6CB4-A247-4797-AD33-6990FAD453AA.jpeg" style="width: 100%;"><div>When Lukas Jakob was a teenager, he purchased a work by Katharina Grosse with his first pay check, which became the first work in his collection. Now in his mid-20s and already owning an art collectio...</div></div></div>

Emerging Artists Are Our Pictorial Documentarians

<div><div><img src="https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/wp-content/uploads/Weissman-14-copy.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Art collecting has been a great chapter in the life of Leslie — an artist herself — and Michael Weissman for over two decades now. They have built an art collection with a focus on emerging and early-...</div></div></div>

The reason I feel optimistic about the future of Alzheimer’s research

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/3b18fe02-3da8-46cd-bf31-bdacbbe7b277/69c2ce8f7298446eb33c3b16c081b897.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates talks about new breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s diagnostics that may someday soon let us substantially alter the course of the disease.</div></div></div>

Great books, courses, and music for the holidays

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/669ef0d9-ad6a-4ef7-9f77-f412fe3c4033/20231114-HolidayList-SummaryPost-TGN_Assets-001-social_share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>My annual year-end roundup of some of the best things I read, watched, and listened to. I even put together a playlist of great holiday songs.</div></div></div>

Clare Mukankusi will make you geek out on beans

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/2f0dff3b-35fc-4f13-9ead-43c320c16ed4/hitf-mukankusi_2023_homepage-hero_564x408_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Beans are a staple crop in Uganda. This remarkable plant breeder is working to make them more nutritious and easier to grow.</div></div></div>

Breaking down the science of AI with Yejin Choi

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/10b7850b-e2c9-423f-9aa3-12023d205cbf/UnconfuseMe_2023_Ep5_Social-Share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>In the fifth episode of my podcast, Yejin Choi joined me to talk about her amazing work on AI training systems and the science of artificial intelligence.</div></div></div>

Unconfuse Me

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/cbd746a2-40e5-46b1-aa25-4c8413f1af1c/UnconfuseMe_2023_TGN-Share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>My latest podcast is all about learning something new.</div></div></div>

This novel about video games felt personal to me

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/d344ee32-d8c9-4aec-97e6-17469f148fcf/summer-list_2023_t-and-t-and-t_social-share_1200x630_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>I loved Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, even though I never thought I'd relate to a book about gaming.</div></div></div>

“Just doing something like this is pretty revolutionary”

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/e368dbb0-bb00-4de0-9073-3b55605f58c4/7410b4697b7d47919bd4750d7b947e1b.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Washington state’s 2022 Teacher of the Year Jerad Koepp teaches Bill Gates how to make a traditional medicine bag and discusses his goals of helping Native students embrace their culture.</div></div></div>

I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/117a1f8c-8153-451c-a955-7247c255e28b/terrapower_2023_module_1200x580_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates writes about visiting Kemmerer, Wyoming, the future site of the fourth-generation Natrium nuclear power plant being designed by TerraPower.</div></div></div>

My meeting with Prime Minister Modi

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/49b80d76-a4ef-4852-bd62-0024ea4fea8d/Modi_visit_20230303_wide%20feature_1200x580.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates and Prime Minister Modi discussed India’s incredible progress on health, climate, and other areas, and how Indian innovation can help the world.</div></div></div>

On the road in Nigeria and Niger

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/4fdf8c24-0e9a-41dd-83eb-d1249a9931f1/nigeria-recap_2023_social-share_1200x630_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>It was a busy but inspiring week in Lagos, Abuja, and Niamey. These were some of Bill’s favorite moments from his recent trip to West Africa.</div></div></div>

Greasy—and good for the planet

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/479d726e-3e9b-46f4-9c4a-168ce8e53a7e/20240130-PalmOil-TGN_Assets-001-social_share_1200x630.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates writes about two companies that are creating alternatives to animal fats and palm oil, which contribute massively to climate change.</div></div></div>

7 Ages of Starlight

This is the epic story of the stars, and how discovering their tale has transformed our own understanding of the universe. Once we thought the sun and stars were gods and giants. Now we know, in a way, our instincts were right. The stars do all have their own characters, histories and role in the cosmos. Not least, they played a vital part in creating us. There are old, bloated red giants, capable of gobbling up planets in their orbit; explosive deaths - supernovae - that forge the building bl

Unconfuse Me Ep. 1: Seth Rogen &amp; Lauren Miller Rogen | Bill Gates

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/08826ee1-16eb-4fa5-a0ee-3062a1455f48/unconfuse-me_2023_social-share_1200x630_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>In the first episode of my new podcast, I asked Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen to help me understand how Alzheimer’s can be funny.</div></div></div>

The Charm of Leaving Some Things to Be Surprises

<div><div><img src="https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/wp-content/uploads/IMG_5453-copy.jpeg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Born in Madrid, Rosa de la Cruz is daughter of Cuban art collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, founders of contemporary art museum, the de la Cruz collection in Miami. She started her career as an at...</div></div></div>

This book changed how I see Africa’s past

<div><div><img src="https://assets.gatesnotes.com/8a5ac0b3-6095-00af-c50a-89056fbe4642/65be3fd8-33d6-43ef-b18c-55fb4e513aac/summer-list_2023_born-in-blackness_social-share_1200x630_01.jpg" style="width: 100%;"><div>Bill Gates reviews and recommends the book Born in Blackness by Howard French, which challenges the standard Western account of Africa’s role in history.</div></div></div>