Gates Foundation opens the doors, a crack, with new vistor center
If you’ve ever been past the huge new Gates Foundation campus near Seattle Center and wondered what goes on inside – your time has come. The foundation is opening up its doors, at least a little bit....
View ArticleProtesters call upon Gates Foundation to sever ties with Monsanto
As part of a somewhat spotty call for a worldwide protest against the practices of the multinational agricultural company Monsanto, about 40 protesters in Seattle descended upon the Bill & Melinda...
View ArticleMelinda Gates, Jeff Bezos, Dr. Larry Corey elected to national academy
Three Seattleites are among the 220 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year: Melinda Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Dr. Larry Corey, president and director of...
View ArticleHow a passing comment on an old medical test won a $100K grant
Earlier this week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the latest 100 winners of $100,000 grants from its Grand Challenges Exploration program aimed at supporting high-risk, creative...
View ArticleExploring the Gates Foundation's connection to the Glaxo scandal
In a "landmark" legal case, the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline pled guilty last week to engaging in fraudulent, criminal behavior which included covering up adverse drug side-effects, promoting...
View ArticleMelinda Gates claims pushing birth control isn't controversial
Melinda Gates is promoting access to contraceptives around the world, and urging everyone to believe it's not a controversial step. She's co-hosting a global summit on Wednesday in London, along with...
View ArticleWhy 'the Berlin Patient' is NOT heralding the end of AIDS
Even though the AIDS epidemic is still spreading, the disease is not killing as many people as it used to, because of new drugs. And that's emboldened many leading AIDS researchers and policymakers to...
View ArticleExtreme makeover: toilet edition (courtesy of Bill & Melinda Gates)
When you flush the toilet every day, you probably aren’t thinking much about where your waste goes. But Seattle’s Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is putting that question on the international...
View ArticleGates' give $500,000 in support of gay marriage
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Bill and Melinda Gates have donated $500,000 to the campaign to uphold the state's same-sex marriage law.
View ArticleGates Foundation blog accuses tax cheats of fueling poverty
Melinda Gates is running full tilt against the Catholic Church on family planning and now the philanthropy’s blog is pumping out this thinly disguised attack on, well, rich people. Something seems to...
View ArticleGates Foundation wants to make safe sex more fun
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation thinks safe sex isn’t as much fun as it should be.At least, that seems to be the gist of one request for a grant application from the world’s largest...
View ArticleWhy Bill Gates thinks ending polio is worth it
Some critics say that ending polio has become Bill Gates'"white whale."Why not just settle for the huge drop in polio cases that we've seen over the past decade and then spend money on other things...
View ArticleCEO Jeff Raikes Retiring from Gates Foundation
The nation’s largest charitable foundation has a job opening. CEO Jeff Raikesannounced Tuesday morning that he’ll be stepping down after five years of running the Bill and Melinda Gates...
View ArticleWhy A Group Of Teachers Protested Outside The Gates Foundation, Ed's Biggest...
At first, Julianna Dauble balked at the idea of protesting against the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."We've all gotten Gates money one way or another," said Dauble, a fifth-grade teacher in Renton....
View ArticleGates Foundation To Spend $50 Million On Ebola Response
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it will spend $50 million to support emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, in addition to the $10 million the foundation has already...
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