If the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation were a country, it would be the 10th largest donor of development aid in the world. With an endowment of around $40 billion from primary donors Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and an annual spend of about one-tenth of that total sum, the Gates Foundation (and dozens of other multibillion-dollar philanthropic organizations like the Ford Foundation and the Wellcome Trust) has been able to fund marvelous interventions, from malaria control to the near eradication of polio.

WAKING THE DEAD

EUGENE, SIR: I have no idea who to ask about this and I do not dare ask anyone, so I’ll ask you. I met a guy through Tinder. He was cute. It was a hookup. We had a great time. He ejaculated on my chest. A good night. A few days later, I developed a rash where he had ejaculated and it wouldn’t go away. I go to the doctor, they run some tests, and the doctor says that what I have is a parasite. But it’s a parasite that they see only on people who “work” with animals or “work” with dead people. The Tinder guy works in a mortuary. Does this mean he was also having sex with corpses? I haven’t called or responded to his emails and I couldn’t ask the doctor. I don’t want to have sex with a man who has sex with dead people, but maybe this could just be a mistake? — Name withheld by request

Ronald Bruner Jr. grew up in a tough, Crips-plagued Los Angeles neighborhood between Compton and Watts. It was so dangerous, in fact, that he was not allowed to play in the front yard out of fear of catching a stray bullet.

It’s being treated as a terror attack. Police in Brussels have shot a man suspected of being a would-be suicide bomber after a “small explosion” went off at the Belgian capital’s transportation hub at 8:30pm local time.

The 17th Karmapa of Tibet, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, has been called the future “shepherd of the Tibetan people,” a Buddhist leader-in-waiting who will one day replace the Dalai Lama as the most important crimson-clad chieftain for many Tibetans. Though his claim to the throne of the Karma Kagyu lineage was once contested, most Tibetans — and even the Chinese government — agree that Ogyen Trinley Dorje is the real deal. Last week, the Karmapa was in the U.K. for his first-ever visit as he released a new book, Interconnected: Embracing Life in Our Global Society. OZY sat down with the 31-year-old philosopher monk to discuss his book and the roots of suffering, Chinese politics and why some leaders might need to have their heads examined. This interview has been condensed and edited.

Imagine having seven and a half weeks off every year. Imagine what you could do: take car trips, take naps, picnic with your kids, explore your neighborhood, learn to make éclairs, write that novel. That’s what happened — most likely minus the éclair-making — in New England in 1908, when a mill seeking to accommodate its Jewish workers on their Sabbath gave employees not only Sunday off but Saturday too. It was a spark: 18 years later, Henry Ford closed his factories two days a week, and subsequent union victories brought the two-day weekend to the U.S., and the world, for good.