An anonymous donor cashes in a $30 donation to ask: Homework solutions from intro physics through grad school physics are available online, and while working through Jackson and Goldstein problems can be miserable without some guidance, the temptation is there to plagiarize. When you teach, do you use book-problems or write your own? Do you […]
Category: DonorsChoose Fundraiser
You Are Horrible, Nasty People
So, let’s review the week in DonorsChoose fundraising: Atheist baiting netted about $60, from three donors. Appealing to your better nature brought in zip, zero, nil, nada. Not one person donated to the highlighted proposal after I posted that. Offering to stab myself with a fork brought in $200 yesterday. You all suck. No, that’s […]
Richard Dawkins Is a Big Mean Doodyhead
That’s exactly the sort of thing you won’t have to read if I meet my Challenge goal by Friday. Or even get $1000 or 100 new donors by Friday, in which case I’ll have to do a respectful review of his book. Thus far, we’ve only picked up $120 in new donations, so it’s not […]
Give ‘Till It Hurts
In comments to my previous fundraising incentive offer, tceisele asks a good question: Just out of curiosity: if you will read “The God Delusion” for $1000 [in donations], how much will it cost just to get you to stab yourself with a fork? (based on my statement that I’d rather stab myself with a fork […]
DonorsChoose: Better Viewing for Students
Continuing the theme of highlighting the occasional particularly worthy proposal, have a look at “Better Viewing for Students”, which pretty much encapsulates everything you need to know about the reasons for the fundraising drive. The proposal is asking for money to buy an overhead projector for classroom use– not a computer projector, an old-school overhead. […]
Make Me Suffer (for Charity)
At the time of this writing (about 8:20 on Monday), my DonorsChoose challenge entry stands at $2,802, nearly double last year’s take. That’s outstanding, and I thank everyone who contributed. Of course, I set a Challenge goal of $6,000, which means we’re not quite halfway there. Which means I need to come up with some […]
LOLEmmy: Solvay It’s Not
Here’s another installment in the payoff for Rajesh Vaidya’s donation. This is one of a bunch of pictures Kate took of me and Emmy playing on the floor: This sort of looks like it ought to be a scene from one of our physics conversations, so here’s my lame attempt at a caption:
More DonorsChoose Incentives
You may or may not have noticed the appearance of large banner ads promoting the ScienceBlogs DonorsChoose EccentricCapitalization Challenge. If you haven’t, they go to this page explaining the challenge and offering valuable prizes. If you’d like to increase the range of swag you can obtain for your donation, head on over there and check […]
LOLEmmy: Unsatisfactory Toys
It’s Saturday, and it’s Homecoming weekend at Union, so I’ll be over on campus watching sporting events for a good chunk of the day. That means it’s a perfect time to pay off another blog purchase, this one from Rajesh Vaidya who asked for LOLEmmys, at least five pictures worth. There are two problems with […]
DonorsChoose Incentive: Quantum Physics and Free Will
I promised a while back to write a post on a topic of your choosing, in exchange for a $30 donation to my DonorsChoose challenge. I’ve got a fair number of requests, and I should really start paying them off. The first one comes from Ewan McNay, who aks: what quantum mechanics can tell us […]