To break the utter monotony of post after post about people who say they can save humanity, but are apparently either too lazy or abject liars, how about some people who are doing fucking awesome things for real?
Elon Musk - the man behind PayPal and Tesla Cars is currently running the world's most advanced private space programme - with sights set on settling humans to Mars before our generation is dead.
She's sort of slightly improved an already available technology and brought it to the masses of third world countries that really need it
Re: Real people doing genuinely cool things for real
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 1:23 pm
by firky
Big up unpaid carers, they do it out of love and devotion and not out of duty.
Re: Real people doing genuinely cool things for real
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 1:28 pm
by lloydnoise
no links but a friend of mine was recently in Serbia and met a girl in her mid-twenties who has helped develop some breakthroughs for the ongoing Fusion project in France.
That's hot right?
Re: Real people doing genuinely cool things for real
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 1:44 pm
by nicenice
But are they harnessing the power from the resonating magnetic waves coming from the sun and applying it to jewellery so I can feel more important?
Re: Real people doing genuinely cool things for real
This guy proved that kids in the slums learn better by themselves. He put computers in walls around slum projects and set the kids tasks, and they figured out how to use the internet very rapidly to discover answers. this amazing scheme is hopefully going to be used to educate children in slums around the world.
Here this orchestra in Venezuela gave instruments to kids coming from impoverished backgrounds, drug addicts and youths from gangs, and created an orchestra as a means of escape for them. the scheme was so successful that its being repeated in 23 countries around the world
For the Radio 4 fam there's currently a program on the iplayer about it being rolled out into Scotland that i'm looking to check out later. Think this is one of the simplest and most amazing schemes of poverty reduction out there, and I'm considering donating my old violin that i never touch anymore to it.
Re: Real people doing genuinely cool things for real
This guy proved that kids in the slums learn better by themselves. He put computers in walls around slum projects and set the kids tasks, and they figured out how to use the internet very rapidly to discover answers. this amazing scheme is hopefully going to be used to educate children in slums around the world.
Here this orchestra in Venezuela gave instruments to kids coming from impoverished backgrounds, drug addicts and youths from gangs, and created an orchestra as a means of escape for them. the scheme was so successful that its being repeated in 23 countries around the world
For the Radio 4 fam there's currently a program on the iplayer about it being rolled out into Scotland that i'm looking to check out later. Think this is one of the simplest and most amazing schemes of poverty reduction out there, and I'm considering donating my old violin that i never touch anymore to it.
wicked links, both of those make me feel warm inside
Re: Real people doing genuinely cool things for real
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 2:06 pm
by nicenice
firky wrote:Big up unpaid carers, they do it out of love and devotion and not out of duty.
People that do anything for other people without asking for anything back are amazing people.
Re: Real people doing genuinely cool things for real
This guy proved that kids in the slums learn better by themselves. He put computers in walls around slum projects and set the kids tasks, and they figured out how to use the internet very rapidly to discover answers. this amazing scheme is hopefully going to be used to educate children in slums around the world.
Here this orchestra in Venezuela gave instruments to kids coming from impoverished backgrounds, drug addicts and youths from gangs, and created an orchestra as a means of escape for them. the scheme was so successful that its being repeated in 23 countries around the world
For the Radio 4 fam there's currently a program on the iplayer about it being rolled out into Scotland that i'm looking to check out later. Think this is one of the simplest and most amazing schemes of poverty reduction out there, and I'm considering donating my old violin that i never touch anymore to it.
wicked links, both of those make me feel warm inside
the results are genuinely thrilling too
Re: Real people doing genuinely cool things for real
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:45 pm
by ashley
firky wrote:Big up unpaid carers, they do it out of love and devotion and not out of duty.
This.
I can't even help people with their email without wanting to smash their computer to bits using their face.
Don't know how I would cope helping people with disabilities. Especially people with dementia. I think I would just cry with sympathy.
Out to carers all damn fucking day and every day. I always donate to charities (and tv programmes) that help carers get a break they deserve, especially those doing it involuntarily.
Re: Real people doing genuinely cool things for real
Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:50 pm
by Intended Malice
MIT Student Develops $3 Cutting-Edge Healing Device, Field Tested in Haiti
Looks pretty damn awesome
