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Mosquitos, malaria and education - Bill Gates

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Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.

Do you think statistics are a good tool in assessing urgency? For example, is it important to know a statistic that says that many more people are suffering from malaria (a life threatening disease) than baldness (a non-life threatening condition).

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