Archive for January 22nd, 2011
More proof that the internet is the most awesome thing ever!
The Awesome Foundation distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators. The money is given upfront in a paper bag full of cash by a group of ten self-organizing “micro-trustees,” who form autonomous chapters around geographic areas or topics of interest. The Foundation provides these grants with no strings attached and claims no ownership over the projects it supports.
Parents who won’t vaccinate their kids should pay MUCH higher insurance premiums
Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing links pediatrician Rahul K. Parikh, writing on CNN: Refusing to vaccinate a child is dangerous not just for that child but for entire communities. It’s precisely this point a colleague of mine was considering when he had the idea that parents who refuse to vaccinate their kids should pay substantially […]
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