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Each year, the developed world pours billions of dollars in aid to developing countries — in 2006, private aid in the United States alone added up to about 34.8 billion dollars. And, while this money has certainly made some sort of difference, it hasn’t solved the chronic problems of developed countries: High rates of crime [...]
Today is Discover Your Impact Day, the companywide volunteer day at Discovery Communications and HowStuffWorks. Discovery employees across the globe are abandoning their offices and pitching in on a variety of service projects around their communities. If Discovery left volunteering up their employees, I wondered whether more women or men might participate. Chances are, altruistic [...]
Studies have shown that twitter posts (tweets) more often than not fall on deaf ears, or no ears at all. For example: Survey: 71 percent of tweets are ignored They discovered that more than seven in every 10 tweets sink without any kind of reaction from the world. Of the remainder, just 6 percent get [...]
It isn’t hard to figure out why people love the “X-Men” comic book and film series: Just about anyone can relate to a story that revolves around a bunch of outcasts who end up under the thrall of a benevolent master who eventually teaches his young charges to harness their talents — oh, and save the world in the process.
Wired Explains: How 3-D Television Works – “TV manufacturers want to bring that experience to your living room with 3-D displays that work much like the ones in the theaters. Major consumer-electronics companies, including Panasonic, Mitsubishi and Sony, are betting on 3-D, with compatible TV sets planned for the market in 2010….” Inside the Nobel [...]
Drew Olanoff appears to be a remarkable person to me. He’s very good at using social networking to move people to action. He’s also a cancer patient. He created a meme on Twitter: #BlameDrewsCancer. He hopes that once he beats the disease he’ll be able to get sponsors to donate a dollar for every person who decides to blame something on his cancer by using Twitter. He’s going to donate the money to Livestrong, the cancer foundation that Lance Armstrong founded.
One year when I was in elementary school, I took part in a fundraiser called Jump Rope for Heart. A bunch of us got pledges from friends and family members, and then we all gathered in the gymnatorium for a marathon jump rope session. I think I raised maybe $250 for the American Heart Association, largely due to the generosity of my maternal grandmother.
Over the weekend, three guys in Indiana seriously trumped my pathetic grade-school jump-rope effort by raising more than $24,000 (so far) during a multiday Mario marathon. Three players, Brian “Shirt Guy” Brinegar, John “Couch Guy” Groth, and Chris “Slouch Guy” Deckard, started playing at 9:00 a.m. EDT on July 10. The goal: To play through all the Mario titles, stream their shenanigans over the Web, and raise money for charity.
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