Throw a Monkey a Bone

Or, um, a banana. Or something...

The Evil Monkey at Neurotopia is soliciting donations to support an essay contest to be run by the Alliance for Science. The idea is to offer prizes for students to write essays about evolution, to encourage students to learn more about the foundations of biology.

They're a registered charity and everything, and this probably fits the definition of "noble cause" (if you give them money, the Discovery Institute suffers humiliations galore), so I'll plug it here for those who might be interested.

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Thanks Chad. Full details should be up in a couple days.

By Evil Monkey (not verified) on 09 Feb 2007 #permalink