Free Rice Project
 

This is a pretty cool project. It's a site that asks you vocabulary questions and donates ten grains of rice for every question you get right to feed people in famine situations. It really is an ingenious idea. They get the revenue to pay for the rice by having sponsor's ads at the bottom of every question. The more traffic they get, the more exposure the sponsors get, the more rice the famished get, and the users get a better command of the English language. It's a win, win, win situation.

As a reference it takes 7250 grains of rice to equal a cup.

Free Rice Project

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very cool.

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I can look in the mirror and say, "Michael, because of you, some little kid in the Congo has a belly full of rice this evening." Just makes you feel good.

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ship the 310 grains

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some little kid in the Congo has a belly full of rice this evening

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Christ, at 10 grains, how many freaking questions did you answer?

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Does it stop at some point? I'm at 500 grains.

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That's a fun little game. I've punched up to level 47 a couple of times, but it's definitely doing a good job of finding words I've never seen. Educated guesses for the win, I suppose. (EDIT: I feel ridiculously smug for making it up to level 49 now.)

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Jokerthief,

Very cool site. Some kid get's rice tonight and I improve my vocabulary.

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I can look in the mirror and say, "This isn't a family, this is an audition for Mowgli." Just makes you feel good.

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FiP

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I get 10k while at work. That is the max you can do.

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None of these choices is correct. And it's spelled gamboooool.

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gambol means:
evade
frolic
assume
regard highly

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I get 10k while at work. That is the max you can do.

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What happens, specifically, when you hit that level?

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I get 10k while at work. That is the max you can do.

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What happens, specifically, when you hit that level?

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kids don't eat

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1) Did anyone else think this was about freeing some guy named Rice from jail?

2) What's to keep somebody from looking all these words up in a dictionary and feeding the whole world?

3) Is it wrong to brag about how many words you know instead of how many grains of rice you've contributed?

4) If those corporations are so generous why don't they just donate enough food to feed the starving people out there? It seems wrong to have the ability to provide for the needy but yet hold back just because somebody half a world away didn't know a vocabulary word.

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there are some sites you can go to and just click the button every day and it will donate rice, but i don't know them offhand

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We should put up a competitor site offering cake instead of crappy rice. It'd make millions.

Yugoslav

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you could set an autoclicker to click once every 10 seconds on this one and donate 10k rice every day

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there are some sites you can go to and just click the button every day and it will donate rice, but i don't know them offhand

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thehungersite.com

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1) Did anyone else think this was about freeing some guy named Rice from jail?

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I knew what it meant because I have no imagination.

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2) What's to keep somebody from looking all these words up in a dictionary and feeding the whole world?

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Just a guess; whoever is doing this is probably under no contractual obligation to fulfill their end of the bargain or have a max amount that they will donate.

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3) Is it wrong to brag about how many words you know instead of how many grains of rice you've contributed?

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Same thing


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4) If those corporations are so generous why don't they just donate enough food to feed the starving people out there? It seems wrong to have the ability to provide for the needy but yet hold back just because somebody half a world away didn't know a vocabulary word.

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Could not agree more!! Just give them the [censored] rice and be done with it.

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ten grains of rice

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how generous.

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awesome site. set it as my homepage.

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I get 10k while at work. That is the max you can do.

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What happens, specifically, when you hit that level?

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Nothing too exciting. It stops asking you questions and says something like 10,000 grains of rice will be donated.

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The Hunger Site

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More than just for food. There's also a click-able link for schooling, literacy, animals, and the rain forest.

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The cool thing about this site is the vocabulary level. It can be anywhere from 0-50 and it scales depending on how well you do. I have trouble getting to 45, but I'm a retard.

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These guys are boned. Whatever ad service they use is on my Adblock list x_X

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BASTIDS!

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i'm stuck on this one



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i showed this to every class i have, today. every one of them loved it, and said they'd go home and donate some rices..

actually helped me waste 10 minutes in each class, so that's appreciated..