Philanthropy:
The One Laptop Per Child program's Give One Get One promotion (which I blogged about back in November) has been extended through the end of December 31 (today!!). If you're in the U.S. or Canada, for $399 ($200 of which...
Posted on December 31, 2007 4:03 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I just found out about something cool for which the window of opportunity closes in eleven days: Through November 26, the One Laptop Per Child project has a Give One Get One deal (in the U.S. and Canada) wherein you...
Posted on November 16, 2007 12:41 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What we raised in our drive for DonorsChoose, and what we can do to put DonorsChoose out of business.
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Posted on November 12, 2007 1:25 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
With just over 10 hours left in our ScienceBlogs/Donors Choose Blogger Challenge 2007, it's time to think about what happens next. Supporting classroom teachers with your funds is a noble gesture, but it's just a start. To really get math...
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Posted on November 1, 2007 1:47 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It looks like you get 1440 extra minutes. And you can blame Presidential candidate (in South Carolina) Stephen Tiberius Colbert. From the DonorsChoose blog: ...our site was flat-out overwhelmed by the massive traffic that resulted from Stephen Colbert and Craig...
Posted on October 31, 2007 3:45 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The 2007 DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge ends tomorrow, and ScienceBlogs readers have met (and exceeded) 10 of the 20 challenges we mounted, raising $47,705. Here's who's left:...
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Posted on October 30, 2007 5:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As this is published (about 10 AM Eastern time) there are two hours left before the noon deadline for the last of the drawings for T-shirts, books, mugs, and subscriptions to Seed to thank you for your donation to our...
Posted on October 30, 2007 10:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The 2007 DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge is in its last few days, which means there may be enough data to start identifying trends as to which ScienceBlogs readers are the most generous:...
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Posted on October 29, 2007 2:25 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
... The Ridger has posted the illustrated sonnet about Saturn's rings that the sprogs and I crafted as a "thank you" for donating to a project in my DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge. It's not too late to get your own sprog...
Posted on October 26, 2007 8:10 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jennifer is another reader who made a generous donation to one of the projects in my challenge. She wrote: I felt like I definitely needed a piece of art work from your very talented crew. ... I'd like something in...
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Posted on October 26, 2007 5:01 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ewan made a generous donation to one of the projects in my challenge and wrote me the following: The concept of a sprog-illustrated nerdy poem was especially appealing... Could I please request a topic of 'brain' (ideally, hippocampus, but that...
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Posted on October 26, 2007 12:26 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dan Hough, a regular ScienceBlogs reader and the webmaster for Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education, made a generous donation to my challenge. He requested some insect artwork from the sprogs, and said, "Please tell them from me I think...
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Posted on October 26, 2007 8:49 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the last 22.5 days, ScienceBloggers and their generous readers have: Mounted twenty challenges to fund educational projects through DonorsChoose. Met (and exceeded!) the targets in five of those challenges (for which I issue a heartfelt "w00t!" to the readers...
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Posted on October 23, 2007 5:20 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A reader made a generous donation to one of the projects in my challenge in the name of Connor S. (age 8) from Conshohocken, PA. Connor S. in interested in the rainforest, so the donor requested an illustrated poem about...
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Posted on October 18, 2007 5:39 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Regular commenter ctenotrish made a generous donation to a project in my challenge called Starfish View of the Sea. The project was proposed by the teacher of a 6th grade bilingual science class in a Houston school with a high...
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Posted on October 18, 2007 2:29 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Still grading papers (different ones, but still) and I felt the sudden need to draw some bar graphs. Surely I'm not the only one who finds bar graphs soothing. Am I? In any case, we're at the halfway mark for...
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Posted on October 16, 2007 3:21 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an assistant professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
