DonorsChoose, the warm-up session

In about a month, we at Scienceblogs will start our own traditional DonorsChoose drive, when we will pick and choose worthy science/math educational projects and ask you to donate your money to fund them.

But, before we do that, you can do a little warm-up exercise! And you don't even have to pay anything - just click. A media website called BigThink is in the middle of a DonorsChoose drive, and we've agreed to help them out:

Basically, they've negotiated a deal with Pfizer where for every person who clicks on the "Vote for this video profile" button on this page (http://www.bigthink.com/thinksciencenow/), Pfizer will give $1 to DonorsChoose, up to $10,000. Unfortunately, they've only raised about $1,200 so far.

To help them reach that $10,000 goal, we're going to try to direct as much of our traffic as possible to click on that button. In exchange, they've produced--exclusively for Seed--a neat-o video of scientists talking about their first experiments. We'll be running the video on the Sb homepage starting tonight and through the rest of August.

I think it does not matter which of the videos you click on - you choose. They only need 8,800 clicks by the end of August. We can do that in hours, minutes?

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