do you know enough words to fill a bowl of rice? can you correctly identify gemsbok as oryx? freerice.com asks these very questions by posing a running multiple-choice (english) vocabulary test. each correct definition (some of the words are a bit idiosyncratically defined) earns twenty grains of rice - paid for by the advertisements at the bottom of the page - to be distributed to hungry persons through the united nations world food program.
so far, in less than a year of operation, freerice.com has enabled the purchase of nearly 26 billion grains of rice by the u.n. wfp. just imagine if we had better vocabularies...
pearl jam - hunger strike (live in bacelona 09/01/2006)
again, you can play the game here; it's fun, takes hardly no time at all, and can help thousands of people in poverty. well - what are you waiting for?
10 April 2008
thousand rice grain vocabulary
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not for nothing....mamasue and FB have set up a rice off contest.. who can go the furthest before getting one wrong .....so far she is winning...but that wont last !
Je ne competive pas
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