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Bill Gates threatens TED attendees with malarial infection
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... During his TED talk on how to go about solving many of the problems the third world faces in regards to disease and child mortality, Microsoft founder Bill Gates released a jarful of several hundreds of mosquitos and quipped: " ...
more bugs from microsoft: bill gates releases mosquitoes at ted 2009 conference
technabob —
... than a few, but probably fewer than ten” mosquitoes and said, “we’ll let them roam around the auditorium. There’s no reason only the poor should experience this…”
Techflash confirms the expected: the mosquitoes weren’t carrying malaria. But I think he still scared - and pissed off - a few people in the crowd. Up next: Gates campaigns for better internet security, aims to raise awareness about viruses… and trojans?
[also via Ethan Zuckerman's blog]
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Bill Gates, Bugs and Books
Geek In Disguise —
... …this from Ethan’s coverage of Rebooting: Bill Gates. I can’t wait to see the full video of the talk. After the mosquito thing he went on to talk about education and promised everyone a copy of ...
Bill Gates Sics Mosquitoes On Conference Attendees
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... an opportunity to make 'bug'-related puns, but rather, to demonstrate that people need to be more aware about the wide-reaching impacts of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. "I brought some mosquitoes -- we'll let them roam around the auditorium. There's no reason only the poor should experience this," Gates reportedly told shocked TED attendees . Gates then informed attendees that the mosquitoes didn't carry malaria. Gates, who now spends most of his time running The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his wife Melinda, has made fighting malaria in developing ...
Bill Gates Sics Mosquitoes On Conference Attendees
The Channel Wire —
... an opportunity to make 'bug'-related puns, but rather, to demonstrate that people need to be more aware about the wide-reaching impacts of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. "I brought some mosquitoes -- we'll let them roam around the auditorium. There's no reason only the poor should experience this," Gates reportedly told shocked TED attendees . Gates then informed attendees that the mosquitoes didn't carry malaria. Gates, who now spends most of his time running The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his wife Melinda, has made fighting malaria in developing ...
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