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.