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To Whom Should We Donate?
Welcome to Aid Finder. We are looking for organizations to donate to, so please send us your suggestions!
The following are this month's options:
GeoHazards
Website: GeoHaz.org
Mission: "To reduce death and suffering - particularly among children - due to earthquakes and other natural hazards in the world's most vulnerable communities through advocacy, prepardness, prevention and mitigation."
Sick Kids Foundation
Website: SickKidsFoundation.com
Mission: " SickKids Foundation is the largest non-governmental granting agency in child health in Canada. Established in 1972, SickKids Foundation has granted over $500 million to The Hospital for Sick Children and over $60 million to researchers across the country."
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Website: EEF.org
Mission: " From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar — and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights. "
X Prize Foundation
Website: XPrize.org
Mission: " The X PRIZE Foundation creates and manages prizes that drive innovators to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today. With the success of the Ansari X PRIZE , the X PRIZE is now viewed as the leading model to leverage the elements of public interest, entrepreneurial spirit and cross-disciplinary innovation to bring about breakthroughs that benefit us all. "
Richard Dawkins Foundation
Website: RichardDawkinsFoundation.net
Mission: "This organization is currently in the development phase, but seeks generally to advance the causes of rationalism and humanism."
Methane Bubbles in Arctic Seas Stir Warming Fears (Article)
(Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global warming, scientists said.)
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Rating: / 5
Category: Nature
Video: Epic Voyage of the Kon-Tiki
Epic Voyage of the Kon-Tiki (Video)
(Kon-Tiki is the Academy Award-winning film of an astonishing adventure, a journey spanning 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia by raft.)
Hits: 60
Rating: 2.75 / 5
Category: Documentaries
(The animals likely died of illness and malnutrition.)
Posted on July 26, 2010 at 12:46 pm in Nature.
0 Comments. 18 Hits.
(Plastiki, a 60 foot vessel buoyed by over 12,000 2-liter plastic bottles, sailed into the Sydney Harbor today, completing a 130 day, 8000 mile journey from San Francisco. )
Posted on July 26, 2010 at 8:50 am in Humanity.
0 Comments. 9 Hits.
(It was bright, fierce and thankfully short. A mysterious event in a distant galaxy has blasted our solar system with the most powerful burst of X-rays ever recorded, temporarily blinding an astronomical satellite.)
Posted on July 25, 2010 at 10:48 am in Astronomy.
0 Comments. 38 Hits.
(This Popular Science special feature from 1925 gives a rare insight into that generation’s hopes and dreams for the future. Click the pic below for the full image!)
Posted on July 23, 2010 at 8:51 am in Humanity.
0 Comments. 45 Hits.
(Researchers have found ways to use magnetic resonance to capture rays of visible light and route them around objects.)
Posted on July 23, 2010 at 8:51 am in Tech.
0 Comments. 42 Hits.
(Scientists, using three NASA satellites, have created a first-of-its-kind map that details the height of the world's forests.)
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 7:48 am in Nature.
0 Comments. 47 Hits.
(Two new fish species — with pancake-flat bodies, wiggling lures on their faces, and elbowed fins for “walking” on the seafloor — have been discovered in the path of spewing Gulf of Mexico oil.)
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 7:13 am in Nature.
0 Comments. 50 Hits.
(A strong earthquake of 6.7 magnitude today rattled coastal Alaska, authorities said, but no significant damage or tidal wave threat was reported. )
Posted on July 21, 2010 at 7:11 am in Nature.
0 Comments. 34 Hits.
(To elude predators, the octopus will change color in an instant and even alter its shape to look like other sea animals. Does its magic put the chameleon to shame?)
Posted on July 18, 2010 at 6:37 am in Nature.
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(As the Gulf of Mexico entered a third day free of fresh oil from BP’s blown-out well, the government on Saturday extended a test that has so far shown no signs of damage in the 13,000-foot-deep hole.)
Posted on July 18, 2010 at 6:36 am in Nature.
0 Comments. 26 Hits.
(Scientists have discovered the first cometary planet, one with a huge tail, a stream of gas being ripped off by solar winds at 22,000 miles per hour. This jovian world is located 153 light-years from Earth.)
Posted on July 15, 2010 at 8:27 am in Astronomy.
0 Comments. 36 Hits.
(Gorillas apparently can play tag much like humans do, scientists now reveal. )
Posted on July 15, 2010 at 8:22 am in Nature.
0 Comments. 30 Hits.
(NASA Updates Shuttle Target Launch Dates For Final Two Flights )
Posted on July 14, 2010 at 9:29 am in Astronomy.
0 Comments. 31 Hits.
(Giant propeller-shaped structures have been discovered in the rings of Saturn and appear to be created by a new class of hidden moons, NASA announced Thursday. )
Posted on July 13, 2010 at 7:58 am in Astronomy.
0 Comments. 44 Hits.
(Researchers have discovered antibodies that can protect against a wide range of AIDS viruses and said they may be able to use them to design a vaccine against the fatal and incurable virus.)
Posted on July 13, 2010 at 7:58 am in Medicine.
0 Comments. 29 Hits.
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