One of my Sciblings, one Ethan Siegel has issued a charity challenge. If one hundred commenters head over to his place and leave a comment assuring him that they will donate 10 USD to the charity of their choice, and name the charity, he will cut off his luxuriant locks.
Please, do it. His hair has, like, its own zip code or something.
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“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.” -Chinua Achebe
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals. We all must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity." -Marie Curie
For the past few months I've been following The Givewell Blog. Here's a recent post, Why are we always criticizing charities?:
Phillip Reese and Andrew McIntosh of the Sacramento Bee report: