{"id":179071,"date":"2006-06-15T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T19:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2006\/06\/15\/donors-choose-lets-represent\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"donors-choose-lets-represent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/WordPress\/2006\/06\/15\/donors-choose-lets-represent\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors Choose – let’s represent!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time to represent…no point pulling one’s hair about the ignorance of the anti-evolutionist unwashed unless one is willing to do something about the problem, right?<\/i>
\nSmall update:<\/b> Props to those of you who have given so far! Small $$$ can go a long way. In any case, just so you know, everyone should feel free to give directly<\/b> to whichever project they want to give to. If you do<\/b> give to this weblog’s Donor account, know that I’ll probably throw most of the cash first to the genetics & evolution related stuff.
\n[end update]
\nThose of us who blog here at ScienceBlogs think science is cool, important, and worth understanding. If you’re reading the blogs here, chances are you feel the same way.
\nA lot of us fell in love with science because of early experiences in school — teachers who made science intriguing, exciting, maybe a little bit dangerous. But tightening budgets are making it harder and harder for public school teachers to provide the books, equipment, and field trips to make science come alive for kids.
\nDonorsChoose.org gives us a way to help teachers get the job done. A bunch of us at ScienceBlogs<\/a> have set up Bloggers Challenges which will let us (and that includes you) contribute to worthy school projects in need of financial assistance. We’ll be able to track our progress right on the DonorsChoose site. And — because we like a little friendly competition — we’ll be updating you periodically as to which blogger’s readers are getting his or her challenge closest to its goal.
\nYou don’t need to give a barrel of money to help the kids — as little as $10 can help. You’re joining forces with a bunch of other people, and all together, your small contributions can make a big difference.<\/p>\n


\nWho’s In:<\/b>
\nHere are the ScienceBlogs bloggers who are participating with Bloggers Challenges:
\nA Blog Around the Clock<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nAdventures in Ethics and Science<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nAetiology<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nAfarensis<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nCognitive Daily<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nEvolgen<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nGene Expression<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nGood Math, Bad Math<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nIsland of Doubt<\/a> (challenge here)
\nMike the Mad Biologist<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nNeurotopia, version 2.0<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nPharyngula<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nPure Pedantry<\/a> (challenge here)
\nThe Questionable Authority<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nThe Scientific Activist<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nStranger Fruit<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nTerra Sigillata<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nUncertain Principles<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nThe World’s Fair<\/a> (challenge here<\/a>)
\nHow It Works<\/b>
\nFollow the links above to the DonorsChoose website.
\nPick a project from the slate the blogger has selected (or more than one).
\nDonate.
\n(If you’re the loyal reader of multiple participating blogs and you don’t want to play favorites, you can donate to multiple challenges!)
\nWhen Donors Choose sends you a confirmation email, forward it to: sb.donorschoose.bonanza@gmail.com<\/a> This is your contest entry.
\nSit back and watch the little donation thermometers inch towards 100 percent. Once the Challenge ends, we’ll select winners at random.
\nContest you say? What’s that about?<\/b>
\nJust in case you’re on the fence about helping the kids, we thought we’d provide some incentives to randomly drawn donors. They are:
\nSubscriptions to Seed<\/i><\/a> magazine
\nScienceBlogs mugs
\nWhat We Believe But Cannot Prove<\/i>, edited by John Brockman
\nThe Republican War on Science<\/i><\/a>, by Chris Mooney
\nRebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World<\/i>, by Michael Chorost
\nSubscriptions to TIME<\/i><\/a> magazine
\nBlogging in a Snap<\/i><\/a>, by Julie Meloni
\nGalileo’s Daughter<\/i>, by Dava Sobel
\nThe Scientific Renaissance: 1450-1630<\/i>, by Marie Boas Hall
\nCausality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference<\/i>, by Judea Pearl
\nPaleoanthropology<\/i> (1st ed) by Milford Wolpoff (gently used)
\nAdministrative Details<\/b>
\nThe contest will run from June 15 to July 1. Email your entries by July 1! Prize notification will start by July 5.
\nAnd, credit where credit is due: This drive was inspired by Sarah D. Bunting’s wildly successful Tomato Nation<\/a> DonorsChoose fund raiser<\/a> this past March. Sars, you’re an inspiration to us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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