+Energy | August 24, 2010

Energy: Bill Gates’s Climate Heresy

By Bryan Walsh

Bill Gates—through his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—revolutionized the health world by focusing vast amounts of money on diseases of the developing world that hadn’t responded to traditional philanthropy. (That’s why TIME put Gates, his wife Melinda and U2 frontman Bono on the cover as People of the Year in 2005.) Lately, though, Gates has [...]

+Technology | June 25, 2010

Thomas Edison and America’s Innovation Crisis

By Bryan Walsh

I have a piece in the paper edition of TIME—the one that comes with stamps and everything—on the legacy of Thomas Edison and the crisis in American scientific innovation. Update: So TIME has put its magazine content behind a paywall. Brave new world of journalism! Well technically not a paywall because right now there’s no [...]