Tuesday, November 13, 2007

1546 Free Rice

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Go to FreeRice.com ( http://www.freerice.com/faq.html) to read about an interesting approach to ending world hunger. Click on tabs at the top to read about it, and then click on "Home" to take the vocabulary test.

For every word you get correct, 10 grains of rice are donated, paid for by the advertisers. (Don't tell those advertisers, but I wasn't even aware there were ads there. Oops!) Every time you get three words in a row correct, you are raised to a more difficult level. I got to level 47, with 60 of 70 words correct (and at level 47 you need to rely on a passing knowledge of Latin and Greek to figure out the base of the words, because I swear I've never heard of those words before!), and 600 grains paid for, before I went into brain freeze and quit.

It's addictive. I plan to go back and rack up more rice.

Update: See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7088447.stm
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