Fight Hunger (without getting off your butt)
There’s a new website called FreeRice that helps you improve your vocabulary and fight world hunger. When you go there, you play a simple but addictive vocabulary game, and every time you answer a question correctly, the site donates ten grains of rice through the UN World Food Program.
At first, I thought this was another site to get humans to participate in an automated task that computers can’t do, like read book scans or create picture captions. But it works by generating advertising revenue. When you click on the answers, you indicate your visit to the advertisers, and they pay for the rice.
I just donated 2200 grains of rice, and was able to reach a vocabulary level of 48. And I was worried I was going to be unproductive today!
November 12th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Thanks for the link. I got tired around 3100 and a vocab level that probably veered between 36 and 42.
For the words I didn’t know, the option that looked like the bogus answer was usually the right one. This runs counter to my Princeton Review-calibrated mind.