Free Rice Helps You Learn and Stop World Hunger
July 25, 2008 Online ObsessionsFree Rice Helps End World Hunger With Vocabulary Quizzing
So, you may be sick of learning right now. You may just want to kill those valuable brain cells with more Coors Light. Indeed, when I walked past the McGraw-Hill building in New York (the publisher of many a heavy, overpriced textbook), I wanted to gather an angry mob, some heavy stones and a catapult.
However, as we all know from School House Rock, it IS great to learn. It’s even greater to do a good deed. Put the two together, and you’re practically a saint.
FreeRice.com offers visitors a chance to brush up on their vocabulary skills, all while helping world hunger. How does this work? Sponsors advertise on the site, and pay for the rice you earn when you answer each question correctly.
Basically, you start off with some questions to determine your vocab level, then keep answering them. Plus, new words are constantly added, and because it adjusts to your personal vocab level, it’s a challenge for anyone. You can also adjust it so that it starts at a higher or lower vocab level. The more you get right, the more the sponsors donate. Humanitarian and academic. It’s as if it were the brainchild of Angelina Jolie and Gore Vidal.
You may not want to learn, but this is such a better way to prove how much smarter you are than everyone else. And, you know, that whole feeding people who go to bed hungry every night thing. If you’re dead set on drinking all those Coors, turn it into a drinking game. I’d like to see how quickly those skills deteriorate or improve.
Copyright 2008 Limbo Luster
