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Edited by shepard, 06 December 2007 - 02:37 PM.
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 06:47 PM
Great news, I don't have that great of a memory, wasn't the pledge amount at $3 Million at the start of Summer 2007? That would be pretty sweet progress if so. Good news nonetheless!
Posted 06 December 2007 - 06:59 PM
Great news, I don't have that great of a memory, wasn't the pledge amount at $3 Million at the start of Summer 2007? That would be pretty sweet progress if so. Good news nonetheless!
the amount is nowhere near where it needs to be yet to really get attention...
Posted 06 December 2007 - 07:34 PM
Just 5 million? It should be multiplied many times over so something significant could happen (research-wise and funds-attracting-wise speaking)
Posted 06 December 2007 - 08:27 PM
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Posted 06 December 2007 - 08:49 PM
Kevin would probably be able to say definitively, but that is my understanding. SENS Research has Thiel's $3.5M donation along with others, while the MPrize has more total donors.
Posted 12 December 2007 - 07:06 PM
Posted 02 January 2008 - 03:14 AM
Posted 02 January 2008 - 03:06 PM
I posted today's emailed word-of-the-day, just in the hopes that someone at Mprize will take number 2 as a hint as another great donation perk
Methuselah \muh-THOO-zuh-luh\ noun
1 : an ancestor of Noah held to have lived 969 years
*2 : an oversize wine bottle holding about six liters
Example sentence:
William's colleagues brought him a Methuselah of champagne to celebrate his retirement, and there was still half a bottle left after all the glasses were poured.
Did you know?
What do Jeroboam, Methuselah, Salmanazar, Balthazar, and Nebuchadnezzar have in common? Larger-than-life biblical figures all, yes (four kings and a venerable patriarch), but they're all also names of oversized wine bottles. A Jeroboam is the equivalent of about four 750-milliliter bottles (about 3 liters). One Methuselah holds about eight standard bottles' worth, a Salmanazar 12, a Balthazar 16, and a Nebuchadnezzar a whopping 20. No one knows who decided to use those names for bottles, but we do know that by the 1800s "Jeroboam" was being used for large goblets or "enormous bottles of fabulous content.” Later, sometime early in the 20th century, "Methuselah" and all the other names were chosen for specific bottle sizes.
Posted 02 January 2008 - 03:19 PM
Edited by Shannon, 02 January 2008 - 03:20 PM.
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